Willamette Valley Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Tour
- 4–9 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Drive the Willamette Valley yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — McMinnville, Dundee or Salem — choose the cellar doors you want from the 170 mapped across the valley, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 193 stories cover Oregon Pinot country's people and places: as you climb into the Dundee Hills you'll hear how a 1980 tasting on French soil put David Lett's Oregon Pinot Noir two tenths of a point behind Drouhin's own Burgundy — and why Robert Drouhin bought sixty acres on these same hills eight years later. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long lunch on McMinnville's Third Street, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops on the back roads. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.
Inclusions
What's included
- Buy once, no expiry: use it on this trip and again on future visits
- One purchase covers every person in the vehicle
- GPS audio tour of the Willamette Valley: 10 location-triggered stories, 12 mapped points
- Full offline download: the entire tour, audio included, lives on your phone
- All 170 Willamette Valley wineries plotted in the in-app map with addresses and directions
What's not
- Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees, paid directly at each winery
- Transport: you drive your own or a rented vehicle
- Food, meals and drinks
- Accommodation
Itinerary
The default starting point, roughly 28 miles northeast of the Dundee Hills and the usual gateway into Oregon wine country.
A Newberg estate right on Highway 99W, the first major winery sign you meet coming south from Portland.
Founded by David Adelsheim in 1971; his work later drove the creation of the Chehalem Mountains AVA in 2006.
One of the recognised producers on Ribbon Ridge, Oregon's smallest AVA at about 3,350 acres and roughly 90 percent Pinot Noir.
The Ribbon Ridge estate co-founded by wine critic Robert Parker's brother-in-law; visits by appointment only.
On Highway 99W in the middle of Dundee, a convenient first taste before the climb into the red hills.
A Worden Hill estate with a gravity-flow winery and caves blasted into the volcanic rock beneath it.
One of the largest certified B Corporation wineries in the country, with sweeping views across the Chehalem Valley.
Built in 1988 after Robert Drouhin of Maison Joseph Drouhin bought sixty Dundee Hills acres; daughter Veronique Drouhin still oversees the wines.
A Dayton mainstay among the celebrated names of the Dundee Hills AVA, established in November 2004.
Where Oregon wine began: David Lett's winery, now run by his son Jason, housed in a converted turkey-processing building in McMinnville.
A biodynamic estate in the McMinnville AVA run by the Momtazi family, farming one of North America's largest contiguous biodynamic vineyards.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- At the north end of Salem on Wallace Road (Highway 221), reached from Highway 22. Roadside parking available.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Wine Trails
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- By giving your phone number you agree to receive up to 2 texts from Wine Trails about this booking (your tour link and a tour-day reminder)
- Msg & data rates may apply. Msg frequency: max 2 texts per booking. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help
- Before you travel: download the free Wine Trails app (iOS or Android) and create your account while you are on wifi
- Unlock your region in the app: tap Redeem a booking or code, choose Booked online, then enter your Viator booking reference (starts with BR-) and the last name on the booking
- Download your tour over wifi before you drive: coverage in wine country is patchy and the offline download keeps the narration playing
How it compares in USA, outside the cities
- Its from-price is 80% below the median of the 139 day trips we list in USA, outside the cities.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
Special offers in USA, outside the cities
Was/now prices come from the operator, never from us.
