About Chehalem Winery
Chehalem Winery was founded in 1990 by Harry Peterson-Nedry, one of the Willamette Valley's most innovative winemakers and an early advocate for the diversity of Oregon's wine-growing potential. The winery farms three distinct estate vineyards across three different AVAs — Ridgecrest in the Chehalem Mountains, Corral Creek in the Ribbon Ridge, and Stoller in the Dundee Hills — using each site's unique terroir to produce a portfolio of unusual breadth.
Peterson-Nedry is particularly noted for championing varieties rarely seen in the Willamette Valley, most notably Grüner Veltliner — Austria's most distinguished white grape — which he planted at the Ridgecrest Vineyard in the 1990s when no one else in Oregon was taking the variety seriously. The Chehalem Grüner Veltliner, now with decades of vine age, is one of Oregon's most remarkable white wines.
The downtown Newberg tasting room is open daily and represents an ideal urban introduction to Chehalem's wide range of wines. The Newberg location places it conveniently for visitors staying in Portland, McMinnville, or anywhere in the northern Willamette Valley.