Ten of the best wines south of Salem...
Benton-Lane is one of the best-known producers in the southern Willamette, which is also home to many individualistic, boutique wineries.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Benton-Lane)
Covering 3.4 million acres – well more than California’s Napa, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino county wine regions combined – the Willamette Valley is vast.
Too vast, objected the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms back in 1982, when vintner David Adelsheim petitioned to make the region its own American Viticultural Area.
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Nice toasty note on the nose, accenting lively aromas of lemon and green apple, plus a little marshmallow. The palate delivers flavours of lemon and...
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Capitello Wines
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The Perpetual Album V is a solera-style Pinot Gris, made with 50% current-harvest wine and 50% reserve wines going back to the 2018 vintage. With...
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Antiquum FarmWillamette Valley
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Gradient is the label of Jeremy Cusimano, who works as a viticulturist for many clients in the Willamette Valley. His wines hail from the 1.5...
2024
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GradientWillamette Valley
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Lumos, located in Philomath, is the project of Dai Crisp, who spent 26 years as vineyard manager at the famed Temperance Hill Vineyard. He planted...
2025
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Lumos Wine CoWillamette Valley
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Pinot Blanc is always one of Brigadoon’s fastest selling bottles, and the 2025 shows a generous nose of pear, spice, lanolin and wax. It’s full...
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Brigadoon Wine CoWillamette Valley
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Tom and Marie Kokkeler’s Five Fourteen winery sits on a 40-acre (16.2ha) property about a 1.6-kilometers north of Eugene’s Fern Ridge Reservoir. Their 2025 rosé,...
2025
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Five FourteenWillamette Valley
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Little Bud, sourced from across Antiquum’s 14.5 acres (5.9ha) of Pinot Noir, showcases the remarkable tension possible at this site. It’s got a lush nose...
2024
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Antiquum FarmWillamette Valley
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This wine has deep, bass-heavy red and black fruits on the nose, with a ferrous streak. On the palate, a sanguine character accompanies the dark...
2024
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Benton-LaneWillamette Valley
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This Pinot Noir is super juicy on the nose, with notes of raspberry, cherry, cedar spice and cinnamon verum. On the palate, the wine is...
2024
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Broadley VineyardsWillamette Valley
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Three Otters, the second label of Fullerton Wines, takes its name from the three otters on the Fullerton family’s coat of arms. Operating out of...
2024
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Fullerton WinesWillamette Valley
Pete Holland is a certified sommelier (Court of Master Sommeliers) and a writer with more than a decade of experience on the commercial and editorial sides of the wine industry. He previously wrote the column ‘Wine in Common’ for the Nashville Scene, and his work appears in Somm Journal, Tasting Panel and Oregon Wine Press. He has an MFA in creative writing from Oregon State University and lives with his family in Eugene, Oregon.
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