That is the Oregon vineyard’s third location to open this 12 months within the Portland metro space
HAPPY VALLEY, OREGON — Thursday, December 1: Willamette Valley Vineyards, a number one Oregon producer of Pinot Noir, opens its new Comfortable Valley Tasting Room & Restaurant to the general public as we speak.
The brand new venue brings the Oregon wine nation expertise to Comfortable Valley Crossroads East, a brand new retail growth within the rising Oregon group simply outdoors of Portland. Visitors will uncover Willamette’s sustainably grown wines paired with Pacific Northwest-inspired delicacies in a full restaurant.
A complicated eating room contains a carved granite boulder fireplace pit, heat wooden paneling on the partitions and Willamette’s signature barrel sales space seating.
Reservations for the Comfortable Valley Tasting Room & Restaurant could also be made on-line at wvv.com/Go to-Us/Comfortable-Valley. It’s open Wednesday by means of Sunday, 11 am to eight pm and is positioned at 13220 SE 172nd Ave., Suite 160, Comfortable Valley, Oregon, 97086. The telephone quantity is (503) 427-2430.
The Comfortable Valley location is the corporate’s third Tasting Room & Restaurant to open this 12 months. The primary Tasting Room & Restaurant opened in April within the charming downtown of Lake Oswego, Oregon, and the second opened in August on the waterfront in Vancouver, Washington, overlooking the Columbia River.
Along with the Tasting Room & Restaurant places, the corporate additionally opened a glowing vineyard Domaine Willamette within the Dundee Hills in September.
Every new opening is a milestone demonstrating the power of Willamette’s buyers in serving to the vineyard develop.
“We’re grateful to our stockholders who’ve supported Willamette Valley Vineyards and this 12 months’s push to take the Oregon wine story to new neighborhoods,” mentioned Founder and CEO Jim Bernau. “Many of those wine fanatics reside within the communities the place we’re increasing and are excited to see Willamette transfer nearer to their properties.”
Willamette’s stockholders had first entry to reservations on the Comfortable Valley outpost and have been trialing and having fun with their new location since mid-November.
Wine fanatics have invested within the vineyard by buying shares of most well-liked Willamette Valley Vineyards inventory. Bernau carried out the primary “crowdfunding” within the nation to construct his vineyard by acquiring permission from the Securities and Trade Fee in 1988, leading to a rising cloth of legal guidelines permitting community-based funding for small companies.
A brand new Willamette Valley Vineyards location is deliberate to open in the neighborhood of Bend, Oregon, in late summer time 2023.
Willamette Valley Vineyards
Based in 1983 by Oregon winegrower Jim Bernau with the dream of making world-class Pinot Noir whereas serving as stewards of the land, Willamette Valley Vineyards has grown from a daring concept into one of many area’s main wineries, incomes the title “One in every of America’s Nice Pinot Noir Producers” from Wine Fanatic Journal. All of the vineyards have been licensed sustainable by means of LIVE (Low Impression Viticulture and Enology) and Salmon-Protected applications.
