Wine Tours Northwest

After coming from Alabama through Napa & Sanoma”s wine country in 1973, we sure enjoyed everything about the wine business.  I came out to Portland in the lumber business (my company AIFP, needed someone to speak “Southern”).  At least 3 times a year, we would organize a wine tour for friends & family.  We also would visit wineries on the weekends and met a lot of the winemakers and owners.  I think there were only about a dozen in the whole state then; now there are over 400.  We knew all the first pioneers – Dick Erath, Dick & Nancy Ponzi, Bill Fuller (Tualatin Vineyards), Pat & Joe Campbell (Elk Cove), Bill & Susan Sokol-Blosser. David Lette (Eyrie) and David Adelsheim.

I have really enjoyed watching our wine industry grow; so when it came time to retire, I decided to turn a hobby into a vocation.  I wish I had retired 2-3 years before.  We are doing tours and “showing off” our beautiful wineries and vineyards to people from all over the world as well as locals too,

Thanks,  Mike Thomas