VINEYARD STAYS Architect Rod Graham’S CLASSIC HOME for a MODERN FAMILY
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HOME GARDEN TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE PORTRAIT TM OF PORTLAND 46 perfect ideas OREGON’S BEST for your kitchen + CHEF WORTHY DESIGNS VINEYARD STAYS Architect Rod Graham’s CLASSIC HOME FOR A MODERN FAMILY CHEF JACO SMITH PortraitMagazine.com South American Cuisine PERFECT Colors FOR EVERY ROOM : DISPLAY UNTIL 08/05/17 $5.95 US ARCHITECTURE BRINGING THE OUTDOORS IN there’s a soothing hot tub and a Babica Hen Café ley. Their B&B allows their guests planted to Tempranillo, thanks masseuse on call. babicahencafe.com the opportunity to “taste the place” to cuttings from nearby Abacela. Perhaps more importantly, the Dundee Bistro Wine & Bubble Bar and spend a couple of nights. Other varieties include Caber- inn features a tasting room where dundeebistro.com In 2002, the Delfinos built this inti- net Sauvignon, Zinfandel and estate wines are poured, wines Tina’s Restaurant mate cottage for their friends who Dolcetto. (After all, Delfino means produced by Alberto Alcazar, tinasdundee.com would drive up from San Francisco dolphin in Italian.) Jim, who was longtime cellarmaster for Ken to help them plant their vineyards. raised by farmers, works both Wright Cellars - perhaps Oregon’s Soon after, they transformed it the vineyard and the 1,000-case winery, which explains the hot most acclaimed winemaker.There DELFINO VINEYARDS B&B into a comfortably modern B&B in tub and beautiful swimming pool are nine suites. Rates start at $150, (Roseburg, OR) the shadow Callahan Ridge, eight nearby. Terri taps into the business and there will be a chilled bottle delfinovineyards.com miles from Interstate 5 and 80 of Alcazar’s refreshing Pinot Gris miles from the Pacific Ocean. administration from her previous Jim and Terri Delfino became refu- waiting. life to manage the tasting room gees of the Bay Area in 2001 when Turn off Colonial Road and at the and the B&B. NEARBY WINERIES & DINING they found this 160-acre ranch on end of Laurel Oaks Drive is the Centrally located, there’s Mel- Domaine Drouhin-Oregon the internet and started Delfino Delfinos’ home and their guest rose Vineyards to the north and domainedrouhin.com Vineyards. Upon launching their cottage, which stands as part of a Abacela to the south. The 600-acre Domaine Serene winery and tasting room in 2006, Norman Rockwell painting. Wildlife Safari in Winston is 20 domaineserene.com the Delfinos created a complete A crisp morning walk leads past minutes away. Seasonal harvest from the White Rose Estate wine country experience for the their sizable pond and their 18 culinary gardens at Allison Inn’s whiteroseestate.com southern part of the Umpqua Val- acres — nearly half of which are Jory restaurant. Durant Vineyards’ romantic Garden Suite apartment overlooks the vineyard, olive grove and lavender fields. Pre- pare for down home hospitality with Terri and Jim Delfino at Delfi- no Vineyards. Bangkok Chicken at Peerless. Weisinger Family Winery estate grown grapes. FACING PAGE A relaxing afternoon at Stoller Family Estate. OREGON VINEYARD STAYS A WEEKEND AMONG THE VINES Eight great places to stay on Oregon wine-producing estates, from private cottages nestled in the vineyards to delightful B&Bs. These wineries invite you to kick back and stay awhile. written by ERIC DEGERMAN ARMONEA Davenport began to transform the harmony, and her daughter contin- Farm also partners with Equestri- WINE COUNTRY FARM property in 1990. ues the legacy. an Wine Tours, which provides (Dayton, OR) She found Riesling vines dating The attractions and amenities at horseback and carriage tours, a winecountryfarm.com to 1970, a planting along Breyman Wine Country Farm are extensive, special tie to Davenport and her love for equines. Her farm remains Winemakers see the red volcanic Orchard Road that’s believed to starting with the view from a an ideal basecamp from which to soil of Oregon’s Dundee Hills be the third-oldest in the Dundee spacious patio surrounded by ever- research some of the New World’s as prime Pinot Noir producing Hills American Viticultural Area. green trees and blocks of Char- premier producers of Pinot Noir. property, but wine lovers have In 2006, Davenport built Armonea donnay, Pinot Noir and Riesling. A Lace up hiking boots or clip into been appreciating this peaceful Winery near the barn that dates to stone’s throw to the east are vines cycling shoes for short trips to sev- view of the Willamette Valley and 1870. Davenport, named her winery owned by Domaine Drouhin and eral nearby wineries. Upon return, the Cascades since the late Joan as a tribute to the Spanish word for Domaine Serene. Wine Country 120 PortraitMagazine.com PortraitMagazine.com 121 Cost is $250 per night, with a Gorge Winegrowers Association for the Durant oils, so the family business, that corner of the estate REUSTLE PRAYER ROCK in order to grow and make world- minimum stay of two nights at rightfully embraces its slogan relies on California as the source is yours. A two-night stay is $550. VINEYARDS INN class wine. He pioneered U.S. the one-bedroom cottage. Arrival of “a world of wine in 40 miles.” for most of what they feed into the Stoneycrest Cottage is essentially (Roseburg, OR) production of a white grape native includes a bottle of award-winning Bartholomews’ 15-acre site fits Northwest’s first commercial olive a two-bedroom home with full reustlevineyards.com to Austria — Grüner Veltliner. wine. in deliciously with its Syrah and mill. Tours, tastings and classes kitchen, laundry and deck tucked The Umpqua Valley’s place in the His gold medals in international Tempranillo. are available by appointment. in a remote corner of the estate. history of Oregon wine often gets wine competitions span Grüner, NEARBY WINERIES & DINING A two-night stay is $705 overlooked, but Stephen Reustle is Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc as Abacela More residents of the Portland/ Grapes from across the 60 acres helping to change that with work well as Syrah, Tempranillo and abacela.com Vancouver area are appreciating of Durant Vineyards, founded in NEARBY WINERIES & DINING the natural beauty that the Corps 1973, end up in the hands of some from his Prayer Rock Vineyards. Pinot Noir. Girardet Vineyards & Winery Argyle Winery of Discovery first recorded for of the state’s top winemakers. A About 15 miles away, the late And this spring, Reustle-Prayer girardetwine.com argylewinery.com Thomas Jefferson. In an hour, few of those vintners bottle Pinot Richard Sommer pioneered Pinot Rock Vineyards was named the Spangler Vineyards Dobbes Family Estate a wine lover can touchdown at Noir, Pinot Gris and Chardonnay Noir plantings in the state at Pacific Northwest Winery of the spanglervineyards.com dobbesfamilyestate.com Portland International Airport, for Durant Vineyards, a 3,000-case HillCrest Vineyard in 1961. Three Year by Wine Press Northwest Erath Winery The Parrott House rent a car and be standing in Three brand. miles away, Calvin Scott Henry III, magazine. erath.com parrotthouseroseburg.com Sleeps Vineyard or tasting at one Lodging at Red Ridge Farms pro- founder of Henry Estate, devel- Recently, Stephen and his wife, Salud of more than 30 wineries. vides substantial privacy after a The Painted Lady oped a vine trellising system used Gloria, took the building that once saludroseburg.com Three Sleeps refers to an answer day of touring or dining in Dundee thepaintedladyrestaurant.com around the globe. served as their winery and trans- True Kitchen + Bar Lewis & Clark received when or Newberg. The Garden Suite, a Subterra - A Wine Cellar Reustle, whose winery is along formed it into a two-story guest facebook.com/truekitchenandbar they asked a Northwest tribe to fully furnished one-bedroom loft Restaurant Cal Henry Road, also is making house. There’s a master suite, full describe a distance to be traveled above the gift shop, overlooks subterrarestaurant.com history. The East Coast native sold kitchen, wood stove and weight by canoe. One can get a sense the nursery and the valley. But Jory at The Allison Inn & Spa his successful marketing business room with a treadmill. It comes DOMINIO IV of those explorers’ wonder with when the gates lock at the close of theallison.com/jory-restaurant and moved to the Umpqua in 2001 with heavenly views of the valley, THREE SLEEPS B & B the loop hike at nearby Rowena (Mosier, OR) Plateau, part of the Tom McCall threesleepsvineyardbandb.com Nature Preserve. Patrick Reuter makes the wines Among the amenities at Three at Dominio IV in McMinnville’s Sleeps is the breakfast featuring The Chef’s Table at Allison Granary District, and his wife eggs from local hens and farm- Inn’s Jory restaurant, is one of the — decorated viticulturist Leigh fresh fruit. The Bartholomews also best seats in the house. Weising- Bartholomew — manages the can arrange for a licensed massage er Family Winery established vineyards they pull from for their therapist to provide in-suite treat- Ashland’s first estate winery. Youngberg Hill Inn is perched brand. ment. with sweeping views. Devotees Those vines include their estate Rates start at $160, and there is a have long sought reservations at site in the Columbia Gorge, Three two-night minimum stay on week- Joel Palmer House for its special- Sleeps Vineyard, which they ends and holiday weekends. ty dishes with wild mushrooms farm biodynamically. Among the and truffles. reasons for such stewardship is NEARBY WINERIES & DINING because Leigh’s folks, Glenn and Cathedral Ridge Winery Liz Bartholomew, live within Three cathedralridgewinery.com DURANT VINEYARDS Mill, Durant Vineyards, gourmet Sleeps Vineyard. They also operate Garnier Vineyards (Dayton, OR) salts, three gardens, an outdoor Three Sleeps Vineyard B&B, a garniervineyards.com redridgefarms.com pottery shop, solarium and a plant destination with views of Mount Mt.