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Nate Ready at Hiyu Wine Farm in the Columbia River Gorge.

Wine Tours Near Portland

Let someone else do the driving while you enjoy wine tasting and vineyard views.

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Guided wine tours near Portland let you explore Willamette Valley and Columbia Gorge vineyards and wineries, tasting to your heart’s content without worrying about driving. Sample your way through the region’s wines on custom trips based on your personal tastes. Seasoned wine experts are ready to make your pinot reverie a reality, and most will even pick you up! Start sipping.

Know Before You Go

All details are subject to change, so please get in touch with tour operators for the latest information.

Public Wine Tours

The Pinot Patrol Wine Tour from EcoTours of Oregon departs Portland daily and includes stops at four wineries, plus tours of the winemaking facilities and a stop for lunch.

The six-hour Oregon Wine Tour from Oregon Tour Co. is offered daily, visiting four wineries with a light picnic lunch.

Sea to Summit runs a daily Willamette Valley Wine Tour that includes tasting fees at four wineries. The Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls & Wine combo is offered daily, with several options combining visits to wineries with waterfall views or whitewater rafting.

Day trips with Great Oregon Tours are often led by colorful wine expert Wayne Oppenheimer, who shares delightfully geeky facts about soil types, clones and vineyard management techniques.

America’s Hub World Tours offers a daily Oregon Wine Tasting Tour that visits three vineyards and includes tasting fees along with a charcuterie board.

The seven-hour Willamette Valley Character Wineries tour with Terran Travels takes you to three boutique wineries in the Willamette Valley. Lunch is included, but tasting fees are not.

Grape Escape offers public tours most Saturdays, taking small groups from downtown Portland to three Willamette Valley wineries.

The Willamette Valley Wine Tasting tour from Wildwood Adventures visits three wineries and runs at least twice a week (more frequently during summer and fall).

Wineries Near Portland

Sample excellent wine at Willamette Valley wineries near Portland, where you can enjoy spectacular views, budget-friendly flights and more.

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Tours in Languages Other Than English

Need a translator for your day of wine tasting? America’s Hub World Tours handles all the arrangements for translation services (currently available in Spanish, German, Mandarin, French and Italian). The half-day Oregon Wine Tasting Tour runs daily. America’s Hub also offers a number of other wine tours.

Private Wine Tours

Be So Lucky Tours offers wine tours that are led by a wine concierge with more than 30 years of experience in the Oregon wine industry and visit Willamette Valley or Columbia Gorge wineries.

A coach with Columbia Crossroads can accommodate 20 -30 people. On the A Taste of the Grape tour, visit two wineries, one that also provides olive oil tastings.

Double Decker PDX offers custom wine tours on their namesake double-decker buses.

Endless Oregon Tours offers a VIP Wine Tour, with visits to four vineyards and a private dinner with the author of Oregon Wine Country Stories. Their Wine & Waterfalls option devotes a whole day to explore the sights and wines of the Columbia River Gorge.

The sustainable vehicles of EcoShuttle can be chartered for custom wine tours.

First Nature, led by Kieron Wilde, provides completely customized Willamette Valley wine tours for up to four people.

Private tours with Grape Escape can be customized for groups large and small and matched to your budget and tastes.

JMI Limousine provides private wine tours in its fleet of luxury vehicles.

With two tour options, My Chauffeur Tours helps you explore wine country or explore urban wineries.

The Vintage Tour Bus Co. offers two Wineries of the Willamette River Valley tours.

Private wine tours with VIP PDX can be chartered for groups of all sizes on their minibusses, coaches or double-decker buses.

Wildwood Adventures offers custom private tours, which can include winery visits.

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Other Wine Tour Options

The NW Wine Shuttle offers a semi-private transportation service that allows groups of four to enjoy a customized itinerary of three wineries.

Have a car but want to leave the driving to someone else? Main Street Drivers provides this very service, acting as your designated driver as you explore the wineries of the Willamette Valley.

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