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| | McMinnville: Oregon Wine Country |
 | | Only their neighbor, McMinnville, is big enough to host a college, the world’s largest wooden airplane, and, in July, the famous and fairly exclusive International Pinot Noir Celebration (tickets for the three-day event are limited and will set you back $795 apiece). |
 | | Planted in Oregon by the first white settlers about 150 years ago, these vines produced no renowned wines until 1965, when a visionary young man named David Lett grew Willamette Valley’s first pinot noir and chardonnay and the first pinot gris in the United States. |
 | | His Eyrie Vineyards on 10th Street in McMinnville is the literal and figurative epicenter of more than 10,000 acres of vineyards stretching for miles in every direction: Northeast to the Red Hills of Dundee, where the passionate pinot pursuer could be tempted to spend a week at Lange, Domaine Drouhin, and Archery Summit alone. |
| www.viamagazine.com /top_stories/articles/McMinnville04.asp (1296 words) |
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