🌿 RelaxedDay trip · from Portland, OR
Dundee Hills Pinot Country
The Dundee Hills are 30 minutes southwest of Portland and constitute one of the great wine landscapes of the American West — volcanic Jory soil, 600-foot hillsides, and Pinot Noir that shocked France in 1979. A day among the established estates and the newer family wineries covers the full range of what the appellation produces, bookended by the Newberg farmers market and a late lunch at the valley floor.
Day 1 — Dundee Hills, OR
Day 1 — Dundee Hills, OR
Day 1 — Dundee Hills, OR
🚗 1 hr 35 min driving📍 4 stops
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Morning
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Drive
Portland, OR → Dundee Hills
35 min8:00 AM → 8:35 AM
Domaine Drouhin Oregon
★ 4.6Robert Drouhin of Burgundy's Maison Joseph Drouhin built his Oregon winery in 1987 after the Eyrie Vineyards beaten his 1976 Chambolle-Musigny in a 1979 Paris tasting. The four-story gravity-flow winery on the Dundee Hills is the most architecturally elegant facility in the valley; the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay produced here are benchmarks of the Oregon-Burgundy dialogue that defines the appellation.
8:35 AM📍 See location
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Lunch
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Drive
Dundee Hills → Ponzi Vineyards
10 min9:35 AM → 9:45 AM
Ponzi Vineyards Tasting Room
★ 4.6Dick and Nancy Ponzi planted their first vines in 1970 — among the earliest in the modern Oregon wine industry — and the family has maintained the estate through three generations. The Tavola tasting room in Dundee pours the full range alongside a food menu built around the surrounding valley's produce. The Reserve Pinot Noir shows the estate's founding block vines at their most expressive.
9:45 AM📍 See location
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Afternoon
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Drive
Ponzi Vineyards → Sokol Blosser Winery
10 min12:00 PM → 12:10 PM
Sokol Blosser Winery
★ 4.6A certified organic and biodynamic estate on the Dundee Hills' southwest slope, with a hillside tasting room and a panoramic terrace overlook. Sokol Blosser was the first Oregon winery certified as a LEED Gold building; the Pinot Noir program emphasizes site-specific estate blocks, and the Dundee Hills Rosé has become the appellation's most recognizable summer wine.
12:10 PM📍 See location
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Evening
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Drive
Sokol Blosser Winery → Red Hills Market
5 min5:00 PM → 5:05 PM
🍽️ Dinner5:05 PM
Red Hills Market
A Dundee deli and wine bar in a converted building at the junction of Highway 99W and Worden Hill Road — the intersection where the Dundee Hills begins. The menu runs to wood-fired pizzas, charcuterie boards, and local produce; the wine list is a direct survey of the surrounding appellations, poured by the glass at winery prices. The best casual meal in Oregon wine country.
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Drive
Red Hills Market → Portland, OR
35 min6:05 PM → 6:40 PM
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