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Oregon

Oregon is a wine region in United States, home to 558 wineries, producing red, rose, white wines, known for Pinot Noir.

Oregon at a glance: predominantly red; known for Pinot Noir.
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Oregon's 558 wineries produce predominantly red wine; Pinot Noir is the most common single-grape bottling; wines carry AVA designation.

About the Oregon region

    Location
    The state of Oregon has established an international reputation for its production of wine, ranking fourth in the country behind California, Washington, and New York.
    Climate
    The climate of Willamette Valley is mild year-round, with cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers; extreme temperatures are uncommon.
    Soils
    In USDA NRCS Soil Data Access results for Oregon survey areas, Mollisols have the largest weighted component acreage, approximately 20,102,874 acres.

Region facts sourced from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Data Access query for Oregon (OR survey-area prefix), retrieved 2026-07-11. (U.S. Government work / Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105)), Wikipedia contributors, "Oregon wine", Wikipedia, revision 1361734838, retrieved 2026-07-11. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International).

Characteristic grapes

Oregon is best known for Pinot Noir. The most-bottled single-varietal wines here are Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Riesling. Oregon's signature grapes often go into blends, so single-grape bottlings skew toward other varieties.

Most common single-grape wines

When Oregon wines are made from a single grape (rather than a blend), these are the most common:

Wine profile

Oregon is predominantly a red-wine region (about 66% of its wines) — expect red wines, often from grapes like Pinot Noir.

4,056 distinct Oregon wines tracked, spanning the colours and styles below.

  • Red2,689 · 66%
  • White1,125 · 28%
  • Rose239 · 6%

Types: Port, Sparkling, Still.

Catalogue vintages span 1996 to 2014.

Representative Oregon wines

Selected from stable product-to-region relationships for diversity — not a claim that these are the region's best wines.

  • de Lancellotti — Arlyn Vineyard Pinot Noir
  • Ponzi — Vino Gelato Riesling
  • Erath — Prince Hill Pommard Pinot Noir
  • Elouan — Reserve Pinot Noir
  • Patricia Green — Estate Pinot Noir Old Vine
  • Kelley Fox — Durant Vineyard Pinot Noir
  • Portlandia — Pinot Noir
  • Pashey — Ribbon Ridge Estate Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut

Sub-regions & appellations

Within Oregon, these appellationsA legally-defined smaller growing area within a wine region, often with its own grapes and rules. are smaller growing areas, often with their own character:

  • Willamette Valley
  • Eola-Amity Hills
  • Dundee Hills
  • Yamhill-Carlton
  • Rogue Valley
  • Chehalem Mountains
  • Ribbon Ridge
  • Applegate Valley
  • Columbia Valley
  • McMinnville
  • Columbia Gorge
  • Southern Oregon

Quality designations

Wines here carry AVA status — a controlled quality designation.

  • AVAAmerican Viticultural Area — a defined US grape-growing region, marking where the grapes were grown.

United States wine designations

AVA
An American viticultural area is a U.S.-government-recognized delimited grape-growing area.
Understanding the wine data
Designation
The protected-origin or administrative category associated with the wine, interpreted using country-aware rules. The same abbreviation can mean different things in different countries, so we only show the meaning approved for that country.
How this ranking is built

Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.

Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.

Explore Oregon

Ways to browse Oregon — each count is the size of that specific collection (a subset of the 4,056 wines tracked above):

  • Red Oregon (149)
  • White Oregon (88)

How to choose a good Oregon wine

Look for the AVA designation — it signals a controlled-origin Oregon wine.

FAQs

Where is Oregon?
The state of Oregon has established an international reputation for its production of wine , ranking fourth in the country behind California , Washington , and New York .
Which grapes are associated with Oregon?
Oregon is represented in the WhatDrink region dataset by Pinot Noir. Grape coverage reflects the products currently linked to the region and is not a complete legal planting register.
What do the designation terms on Oregon wines mean?
AVA: An American viticultural area is a U.S.-government-recognized delimited grape-growing area. These terms describe geographical or regulatory categories; they do not by themselves guarantee that one producer or bottle is better than another.
How are wineries and producers selected for Oregon?
Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
How are representative Oregon wines selected?
Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
How much wine data does WhatDrink have for Oregon?
The current regional catalogue contains 4057 linked wines from 558 linked producers. Counts describe WhatDrink catalogue coverage and may change as source data is refreshed.

Regional data is aggregated from wine directory and product-catalogue sources; grape and style associations reflect characteristic varieties and may vary by producer and vintage.