Amazing wine and cool cars? We can't think of a better way to spend a nice summer day!
Join classic car enthusiasts and wine lovers for a summer day at Willamette Valley Vineyards estate vineyard with award-winning wine, hot cars, cash prizes, food from Bentley's Grill, and oldies music from JT and the Tourists on Sunday, July 10th from 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Have you spent countless hours waxing, rebuilding, and maintaining your prized vehicle? If so, the Wine Country Cruise-In is the perfect event to show off all that hard work! Think your car is the hottest out there? There will be awards to cars in four categories: Best Classic Car, Best Hot Rod, Hottest Paint Job, and Best in Show.
Admission is $10 and includes a Riedel wine glass. Admission for Wine Club Members is complimentary. There is a $10 entry fee per car for the contest. Awards will be announced at 4:30 p.m., and you must be present to win.
More about Willamette Valley Vineyards:
“Our mission in growing cool-climate varietals is to create elegant, classic Oregon wines from the Willamette Valley Appellation. As native Oregonians, we treasure our environment and use sustainable practices in growing and vinifying our winegrapes.”
Founder, Jim Bernau, purchased the Estate site in 1983 and cleared away the old pioneer plum orchard hidden in scotch broom and blackberry vines. He planted Pinot Noir (Pommard and Wadenswil clones), Chardonnay (Dijon and Espiguette) and Pinot Gris. In the beginning he hand watered the vines with thousands of feet of hose.
Numerous classes at UC Davis, and seminars from here to France, sharpened Jim’s viticultural skills and in 1989 he was ready to build his dream--a world class winery in the Willamette Valley—and make cool-climate varietals, especially Pinot Noir, in sufficient quantities to be served and sold in the best restaurants and bottle shops in the world.
A combination of determination and extraordinary people has brought Willamette Valley Vineyards from an idea to one of the region's leading wineries, earning the title "One of America's Great Pinot Noir Producers," from Wine Enthusiast Magazine.
Our approach is to grow, by hand, the highest quality fruit using careful canopy management, and to achieve wines that are truly expressive of the varietal and the place where they are grown. Since we ferment and barrel each vineyard lot separately (sometimes as small as two barrels) we can save the best barrels for single vineyard bottlings and Signature Cuvée.
Our stylistic emphasis is on pure varietal fruit characters, with attention to depth, richness of mouthfeel, and balance. The wines are truly a collaborative effort of the entire vineyard and winemaking staff.
The winery and underground cellar are carved into the top of an ancient volcanic flow, the soil red from its oxidized iron content and well-drained. This unique terroir is similar to the red clay soil found in the Grand Cru Pinot Noir vineyards of Romaneé-st-Vivant in Burgundy, where the "soil gives France's most perfumed, satiny, expensive wine" (Hugh Johnson, World Atlas of Wine).
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