How much do you know about Rogue Valley wine, winemakers and grape growers? Answer these questions:
- Jacksonville photographer Peter Britt became the first person to produce wine in the Oregon Territory, a year before Oregon became a state. What year did he produce wine?
- Oregon's temperance society pushed to outlaw alcohol four years before it became a federal law. What year was alcohol outlawed in Oregon?
- Harry & David started with pears in 1910. How many years later did the company launched its own wine label?
- What tasting room is tucked away in a former firehouse?
- What tasting room is tucked away in a stagecoach hotel?
- What tasting room is tucked away in a cozy, cement-walled inn?
- Which vineyards are most visited by hang gliders?
- Who has hosted the longest, monthly, in-home wine tasting?
- Who are the best golfing winemakers?
- Who is the most famous cycling vintner?
- Who is the harvest volunteer most likely to show up in running shorts and flip-flops?
- Where are you most likely to encounter a buried, manure-packed cow horn?
- Where are you most likely to see a pack of well-behaved alpacas?
- Where are you most likely to taste beef from vineyard-raised cows?
- Where are you most likely to ride in a horse-drawn carriage?
- Where are you most likely to see a nude visitor being shooed away by the tasting room owner?
- What is the percent of family-owned Rogue Valley tasting rooms?
- Which was the first local wine priced at $100?
- What is the location of Folin Cellars' wine caves?
- What is the tasting room in which visitors buy 2007 Le Petit Oink dessert wine for $15, 2008 Aggie Dog Red for $12 and 2008 The Butler Did It Again rose for $15?
- Which tasting room hosts the squishiest, barefoot grape-stomping contest?
- Which tasting rooms have built-in fired-up pizza ovens?
- Who has a winemaker for the longest time at one winery?
- Which writers have been wine columnists for the longest time?
- Which researchers have been studying viticulture here the longest?
- What did Les Martin do before starting of Red Lily Vineyards in Jacksonville?
- What did the Garvin family do before starting Cliff Creek Cellars in Gold Hill?
- What did John Weisinger do before starting Weisinger's of Ashland?
ANSWERS:
- 1858
- 1916
- 102
- Crater Lake Cellars in Shady Cove
- Del Rio Vineyards in Gold Hill
- Pebblestone Cellars in Medford
- Fiasco Winery and LongSword Vineyards on Highway 238 outside of Jacksonville
- Peter Adesman for 22 years in his Medford residences
- John Quinones of RoxyAnn Winery and Linda Donovan of Pallet Wine Co., both in Medford
- Gus Janeway of Velocity Cellars in Ashland
- Ashland wine rep Ron Stringfield
- Cowhorn Vineyard in Jacksonville
- Caprice Vineyards in Central Point
- Plaisance Ranch in Williams
- Schmidt Family Vineyards in Grants Pass
- Trium Wines in Talent
- 100 percent
- Troon Vineyard's Vertical cabernet sauvignon in the Grants Pass tasting room.
- 10 feet underneath the Gold Hill tasting room
- Devitt Winery in Jacksonville
- Agate Ridge Vineyard in Eagle Point
- Dancin Vineyards in Medford and Kriselle Cellars in White City
- Winemaker John Guerrero has been at Valley View Winery since 1985
- Cleve Twitchell of the Mail Tribune and Lorn Razzano of the Ashland Daily Tidings
- Professors Porter Lombard and Gregory V. Jones
- Las Vegas casino accountant
- Early cable-television industry investors
- Presbyterian minister
Read the complete story in the Eno Outings column in the Medford Mail Tribune: http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130130/LIFE/301300314/-1/LIFE0702















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