Willamette Valley Wine & Whisky

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Portland, USA

6 to 7 hours (approx.)
Pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Winery hop through the Willamette Valley, known for its Pinots, with this small-group tour. You will visit three different tasting rooms where you’ll get the chance to sample wine safely, without having to worry about driving. You’ll also stop for lunch along the way, included in the price of the tour.

Go wine tasting safely by booking this driver-led tour
Lunch and snacks are included in the tour cost
Travel in the comfort of an air-conditioned vehicle
Small group sizes keep this tour intimate

What's Included

Lunch
Snacks
Bottled water
Air-conditioned vehicle

Gratuities (always appreciated)
Alcoholic Beverages

Meeting and Pickup

You can head directly to the meeting point, or request pickup

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Pickup details

Pickup locations are flexible. We will contact you the prior evening to verify pickup time and location.

Meeting point

523 NE 19th Ave, Portland, OR 97232, USA
Look for a black, high-top, extended-length van.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Operating hours
.10:00 am

Itinerary

Willamette Valley

7 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Service animals allowed

Infant seats available
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 14 travelers

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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Featured review

Patrick_H

Great wineries, with a nice tour of the Williamette Valley. Cher are tour guide was very engaging and knowledgeable about the area. We had a nice lunch at the Ken Wright tasting room. Cher also took some wonderful pictures. We were joined by a young couple who were fun to be with. Definitely recommend this tour.

Reviews

4.7

based on 36 reviews

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A very fun Wine and Whiskey tour in Oregon

Mary_W, Jun 2025

Tito was very fun to have as a guide. His warm personality and knowledge of the Portland and wine area were impressive. We went to 3 wineries and had one whiskey tasting stop. Very delightful day

Response from Host, Jul 2025

Glad you enjoyed Tito!

Nice but overpriced

Phillip_P, Oct 2023

The tour guide was great, but it has gotten more expensive, visitor tours used to include tasting in price not separately. Tour is nice but overpriced for what you get. Lunch was minimal.

Response from Host, Oct 2023

I'm sorry you were unhappy with the tour, Phillip. There is only one company here that has ever included tasting fees in the price of their tours, and they've burned bridges with many wineries as a result. If you want low prices, I suggest going to Latin America.

Great day of touring the wineries and meeting new people.

Kate_O, Sep 2023

The three wineries were all unique and all had friendly staff. The settings were all amid the vineyards, giving us the chance to see the heavy vibes, just before harvest.

A day of reckoning, California wines…

Rosemary_L, Sep 2023

Brittany, our driver, was amongst the best part of our journey. Right up there with the wine. She is lovely. We visited three wineries and I was impressed. I moved here from a California wine making region and the Willamette wines are as good (if not better) in such me cases. I highly recommend this tour!

Fun Mother/Daughter day trip

SaraS, Aug 2023

Visited 3 wineries. Wonderful experience for me and my 2 daughters. Thanks Brittany for an amazing day!!

Great time!

Tamara_D, Aug 2023

What a wonderful day! Thank you Brittany for being such a fantastic, fun and informative guide! We had a small group but made fast friends with Charda and Laura! Cherry Hill Winery was our favorite of all of us by far!! David, our tasting guide and wine developer was an absolute delight!! We really liked the Fox Farm Vineyards and David (we got lucky with two Davids today!) who was our tasting guide and owner was so knowledgeable. The charcuterie boards shown are from lunch at the Stohler Family Estates Winery. Good food and lots of it! Thank you Viator! You never fail to impress!

Wine tour with family.

Patrick_H, Aug 2023

There are probably better tours out there...

Leah_H, Jun 2023

The driver was kind and kept the conversation flowing but I will say he was more of a designated driver than a wine lover. One of the "wineries" that we visited was a tasting room and the lunch was a skimpy charcuterie board. Ken Wright (tasting room) tasting tour was awful the lady basically handed our table of ten a book, poured wine said next to nothing about it and went back inside. Absurd amount of down time with very little wine. The other two wineries were nice but did not justify the cost of this trip especially since tasting fees are on your own.

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Leah, I'm sorry you were disappointed with your tour. The guide is new to Willamette Valley wine, so he is still low on the comfort-level curve. I'm sorry you were also disappointed with Ken Wright Cellars, as Ken Wright was the first Oregon winemaker to make the cover of Wine Spectator magazine. Although we try to include vineyard stops, wine tasting is, first and foremost, about the wine, and some of the best wine is sampled in tasting rooms that are not located at a vineyard. I'm sorry you were disappointed in the service at Ken Wright. I've run into 'off' days with the tasting room staff at virtually every winery I've been to; the vast majority of the time we get great service. We will look into increasing the food portions at Ken Wright, but you'll be hard-pressed to find another Portland-based wine tour that provides more robust food portions without charging a higher price, and they still don't include tasting fees. As someone who worked at a winery prior to operating tours, I pride myself on choosing the locations with the best wine and/or experience. Since we commit to running this tour when only 2 guests have booked, we cannot go lower on the price.

Not the experience we expected to have

Melissa_A, Jun 2023

We arrived at our predetermined pickup point and saw the unmarked van and no driver. We waited about 10 min before she popped out. That delay caused our first tasting spot to be rushed - a beautiful vineyard, a lovely table, a knowledgable host with beautiful charcuterie plates, and rush rush rush (the winery had another tasting appointment coming in). The second stop was 45 min away and we weren't told that the drive would be that long. Many on the tour grumbled about that, wishing they had used the bathroom before leaving the winery if they had known how long we'd be without a stop. Another gorgeous winery, knowledgable and gracious hosts there with a great space for our included lunch. We were presented with basic, wrapped turkey sandwiches from a supermarket that had gotten mushy, mayo to go with it (as if it weren't mushy enough) and blocks of cheeses, right from the grocery store cooler, that we had to slice ourselves with plastic knives and no plates (two of the cheese blocks we ignored as they had mold growing on them.) Oh, and a cookie. No beverages. No plates. The charcuterie plates from the first winery were leaps and bounds more impressive than the included lunch. We were asked in advance for food allergies, and one person in our party was not accommodated. Thank goodness this winery had a pizza oven station on property - we bought $60 in pizzas (one gluten free and vegan for our friend) and shared it with the other people on this tour. The driver decided to add one more stop to our day, taking us to a 4th winery. Worried about time, she tailgated a school bus for miles on a two-lane highway, making everyone on board very nervous. That bus could not move over if it wanted to - and I'm sure it did, for the safety of the students on-board. The 4th winery didn't know we were coming and had nothing planned for us. So feeling like we should participate in some way, many of us ordered a glass from their menu. The group was groggy and tired and ready to end the day. And then we drove into parade traffic when we returned to Portland. I don't know the city, so I don't know how the driver could have avoided it, but this slow crawl did us in. Three passengers asked to be dropped off and said they'd walk the rest of the way back to their hotel. It was only a block later that the other three left to do the same thing, leaving me and my friends to trek the last 5 or so miles past the parade route to our designated pick up point. Which, I should note, had a parking lot adjacent to the building that was designated for customers only - not for day parking. Luckily there was street parking available, but the implied use of a parking lot was not correct and we had to move our cars. The wineries were beautiful and the tastings were wonderful experiences. The tour driver was not a guide. While she tried to engage with some information about wine country and the soil and other facts or tidbits, she wasn't prepared nor well spoken about it. For example, she mentioned that a well-known football player was a part owner of a winery, or maybe he just invested in it, and she thought maybe he moved to the area, she didn't know for sure. And when we asked, she couldn't remember the football player's name. At one point, she invited us to look out the window on the left. We saw a barren field, not sure what we were looking at, and she said "Soil." That's it. Soil. Nothing more. There were only a few head scratchers like these because she didn't really talk all that much. And we had hours of drive time she could have prepared to fill with a script of well-researched and rehearsed material. Add to this the fact that the wine tastings themselves were not included, and every venue required a payment, it just doesn't add up to a value experience.

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Melissa, I'm sorry you weren't happy with your lunch. The tasting room where we usually go for lunch was closed due to a wine club event, so we had to improvise. As far as dietary restrictions, I asked you if you had any dietary restrictions, and you replied "no". You are responsible for voicing restrictions for everyone in your group, as Viator only provides us with your contact information. You're the first guest we've had whom that didn't seem obvious to. As far as "mold" on cheeses, they were bloomy rinds, so that is to be expected. Where is it that you're reading "implied use of a parking lot"? I'm sorry the guide did not perform up to par. She has been guiding this tour for a long time, so my guess is she was under high stress, as she was in the middle of a move.

Exploring Willamette Wine Country

Maria_V, Nov 2022

Meeting the wine makers and learning about their stories and passions for making wine. No more words to say.

Too much riding between locations.!

David_C, Oct 2022

Bryan Mayr was a great winery! Good wine + great vistas. Lunch was good, but kind of out of the way.

Great Winery Tour

Rex_H, Sep 2022

Great wine and great guide. Really enjoyed learning about the wine histories. Beautiful area to visit.

First time in Willamette Valley

Theresa_M, Aug 2022

I am a solo traveller, love Pinot noir, and wanted to check out Willamette Valley for the first time. It was overwhelming having to think about which wineries to try out in one day. This tour was able to ease my mind in having the wineries chosen with reservations made. The wineries that were picked for the tour were perfect and exactly what I was looking for! The tour guide was extremely knowledgeable and friendly, and he made it a very comfortable and enjoyable experience. Thank you for hosting me!

Willamette Pinot Noir Blanc

Samit_C, Aug 2021

Had a great wine tasting experience. Marcus is an attentive, personable and knowledgeable guide and kept us engaged with information on wine and regional history. Tasted some very good wines and was great to meet some wine makers and walk among the vines. Had my first taste of pinot noir blanc!