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I’m partial to white wines these days and I think The best Southern Oregon wine is viognier. The wine industry is thriving in Southern Oregon. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.<\/p><\/div>\n

I have a feature article in Oregon Business Magazine<\/a> called “A Region Uncorked” about the growing success of the Southern Oregon wine industry.<\/p>\n

The small town of Talent would not, at first blush, seem like a place where the southern Oregon wine industry would thrive.<\/p>\n

But it is.<\/p>\n

Beautiful and verdant back roads<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As I explain in my article, storage warehouses, auto body shops and junk stores line Talent\u2019s industrial strip along Highway 99. <\/span><\/p>\n

But turn down Rapp Lane and you\u2019ll quickly find yourself on some of Southern Oregon\u2019s most beautiful and verdant back roads, driving past white goats and a piebald horse munching dry grass amid several black cows staring blankly at green hills dotted with snow.<\/span><\/p>\n

An extended growing season adds life to southern Oregon wine<\/h3>\n

Southern Oregon has an extended growing season. This countryside lies between two of the region\u2019s fastest-growing cities, Ashland and Medford. With its warm weather and fertile soil, it has long been celebrated as a fruit-growing region.<\/p>\n

The first pear trees were planted in the late 19th century and dozens of eager business pioneers from the East Coast and the Midwest rushed to Oregon to buy land.<\/p>\n

But in the past ten years there has been an enormous shift from planting fruit trees to planting higher-value grape vines.<\/p>\n

With that has come an explosion of new wineries. This year alone, winery owners planted more than half a dozen new vineyards.<\/p>\n

Currently over 60 vineyards in Southern Oregon hold winery licenses.<\/p>\n

Owner of Trium weighs in<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cWhen we planted our grapes in 1990, there were six wineries. And about 350 acres of grapes in the Rogue Appellation,\u201d says Laura Lotspeich. Her winery, Trium, is located at the top of the hill on Rapp Lane.<\/p>\n

The Rogue Appellation extends from the California border north to Grants Pass. It includes the Applegate Valley, the Illinois Valley, the Rogue River Valley, and the Bear Creek Valley.<\/p>\n

Today there are 67 wineries and over 3,000 acres of grapes planted. \u201cMuch of that growth has happened in the past five to 10 years,\u201d says Lotspeich<\/p>\n

Read my full article about Southern Oregon wine here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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