regionWillamette Valley
Three and a half million acres of Oregon between the Coast Range and the Cascades, of which a thin band of hillside grows pinot noir. Eleven AVAs now sit inside it.
The story Cited
David Lett planted pinot noir at Dundee in 1965 against the advice of everyone at Davis, who said Oregon was too cold and too wet. His 1975 Eyrie South Block Reserve placed tenth in a 1979 Paris tasting, Robert Drouhin re-ran the comparison in Beaune the following year, and the Burgundians started buying land. Adelsheim chaired the committee that petitioned for the AVA in 1983.
How it is done Cited
Cool and wet, with rain that arrives near harvest and decides the vintage. Growers pick on the forecast as much as on sugar.
Today Cited
Pinot noir covered 24,729 acres of Oregon in 2022 and brought the highest price per ton of any variety in the state.
Facts
| country | United States |
|---|---|
| level | ava |
| established | 1983 |
| soil | volcanic Jory, marine sedimentary, windblown loess |
| region | Willamette Valley, Oregon |
| where | 45.2000, -123.1000 (region) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
Numbers somebody published
| AVA area · 1983 | 3430000 acres — Willamette Valley AVA |
|---|---|
| AVAs inside it | 11 — Willamette Valley AVA |
| Oregon pinot noir · 2022 | 24729 acres — Oregon wine |
Nothing in this table is estimated here. Where a figure is missing it is missing, and the row is not written.
Near here
Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.
- 7.9 km — The Eyrie Vineyards cellar
- 8.1 km — Sokol Blosser cellar 🍃 Certified organic
- 8.9 km — Domaine Drouhin Oregon cellar
- 9.7 km — Dundee Hills region
- 15.9 km — Adelsheim Vineyard cellar
- 16.2 km — Yamhill-Carlton region
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Sources
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.