“Welcome to our newest adventure,” says Paula Campbell Brown, opening the front door to Dana Campbell Vineyards’ new tasting room on the north side of Interstate 5 in Ashland, Oregon.
Inside, a wall of windows frame rows of tidy vineyard trellises, Mount Ashland and endless sky. Like a viewing deck at a national park, visitors can peer through a telescope and see downtown Ashland, which is two miles away.
“We’re telling people to come see the other side of Ashland,” says Brown, wearing a denim shirt with a Dana Campbell Vineyards logo, and standing next to her husband, Patrick Dana Flannery.
Here, visitors stand under a soaring ceiling at the tasting bar to sample malbec, viognier and other wine made from grapes grown on the couple’s 33 acres.
Or they gather around the freestanding fireplace in the center of the room with a $7 glass of 2010 Vionillo, a very unusual wine made by fermenting white viognier with red tempranillo grapes.
Or they venture outside, where cows graze in a nearby field and ducks and geese circle a pond-like bioswale installed to keep an overflow of water away from the vines.
By spring, Brown and Flannery plan to add a concrete patio with tables and chairs, a secluded area with benches for what Brown calls “the third-date section” and a bocce court, since, “You can’t just drink wine all day,” she says.
For more information: Dana Campbell Vineyards’ tasting room at 1320 N. Mountain Ave. in Ashland is open noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays with private tastings by appointment. For more information: 541-482-3798, danacampbellvineyards.com
Read the complete story, see a photo gallery and watch a video of Dana Campbell Vineyards in the Ashland Daily Tidings: http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130208/NEWS02/302080303
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