What is your favorite Umpqua Valley wine?

I am not advertising any biz. I live here and enjoy the wines of the Umpqua Valley AVA.

For some reason the people who run the eraser didn%26#39;t like my last post, even though I did not mention any biz by name or phone number?

How do I get a discussion of our local wines going?

Do you have to be a private citizen with no job or biz?

What is your favorite Umpqua Valley wine?

I didn%26#39;t see your earlier post - but I am guessing that it was considered off-topic. The topic is travel. If you just want to talk about your local AVA, this would not be the place to do it.

If you wanted to talk about things tourists would be wanting to do in your AVA, then that probably would be ok.

Just say%26#39;n.

-Noah

What is your favorite Umpqua Valley wine?

Ok. Travelers would enjoy a nice picnic at any of our 21 tasting rooms.

Get off of I-5 and discover the wine country. Wine tasting maps are available at the Roseburg Visitors Center.

If it looks like advertising and self-promotion, walks like advertising and self-promotion and talks like advertising and self-promotion......guess what!

It is.

So if I stay at a hotel and talk about it then that%26#39;s self-promotion??

Never mind then don%26#39;t come and enjoy our great wine!

This is the last post for me!

Checking the OP%26#39;s ';inside pages';, you are correct, oregonpoppa.

Actually, the original post sounded like an advertisement. That is why I asked if you owned (or worked at) a winery in the area. It was also the first post you had ever made on TA, which also raised the question.

TA must have felt that the entire thread was off topic, so they removed it.

To get back on topic. I have not been to the Umpqua region for quite awhile. Actually, since 2001. Much has changed since then. There are definitely more wineries in the area now and they seem to be doing a better job of getting the word out that Oregon can/does produce wines that are not Pinot Noir.

Ah, half-Brit, you are right. I just checked them out. Both of them promoting the OP%26#39;s business. Is that allowed on Insider Pages?

I know that we can post that we own, or work for, a company here...for instance....if the topic is local hotel concierge service, someone could come in here and say ';I am the concierge at ';ABC Hotel';, when responding to the post. But using the forums to promote the business is not allowed. Am I right?

In trying to make his posts more ';travel oriented,'; he should have given us useful info, such as:

Other than the winery he represents, what are the two or three best ones for tourists; which have good tours and tasting rooms (any charges for tastings); picnic areas or food/cheese shops; proximity to each other and recommended inns and b%26amp;bs; etc.

All he did was offer puffery. And anyone could find out as much or more simply surfing the net. In fact, here%26#39;s the Umpqua Valley AVA website.

http://www.umpquavalleywineries.org/

Now, that%26#39;s being helpful without being self-promotional.

oregonpoppa,

I hear ya. Totally agreed.

One thing that I did note, he has a few photos posted. One is of Hillcrest in Roseburg. Believe it or not, this is where Patty Green got her start. Her friend Donna Postle (formerly of LaGarza) invited Patty to earn some dough by working harvest one year. Patty didn%26#39;t want to, until Donna told her that they drank beer after picking. So, Patty signed on.

Well, after that short 7-8 weeks, Patty said ';Next year, I will be the winemaker here.'; And she was!

Anyway, the photo lists Hillcrest as the ';oldest winery in Oregon';. That is actually not true. I believe that Honeywood holds that honor, going back to 1934, if memory serves me (and NO, I am not that old!!!!) Ah yes, I am correct, my Discover Oregon Wine guide lists it as 1934.

Hillcrest also claims to have the oldest vineyard, going back to 1961. This is also not true. David Hill has the oldest vineyard, dating back to 1883. Although, by the info on their web site, most vines were torn out during prohibition.

Ah, sorry, just got on a history lesson. What does this have to do with travel? Plenty, it just gave tourists to Oregon wineries some background. ;-)

What can I say, wine is my passion.

Thank you for your feedback. Finally, a discussion of the Umpqua Valley and why you should visit.

Below is from the wine maker/owner of HillCrest Vineyard.

';Honeywood is Bonded Winery 26 if I am right was first given to it when it registered as Columbia Distillers in the 1930%26#39;s. They changed their name again before Honeywood and I don%26#39;t remember the name, but they at that point bought wine from California for bottling and distillation. Being it has always been in downtown Salem it could never be an estate winery in the classic sense as there is no vineyard on site. The book ';The Winemakers'; their winemaker states (1979) that they are not a grape winery. After this they began making vinifera wines for sale in Oregon even though they produce almost exclusively fruit wines..We are the oldest continually operating vinifera or estate winery in Oregon. In other words you can date Honeywood production to now earlier than 1979 and Richard was of course 1963 (first harvest).';