In the Willamette Valley we are on the edge of the climate limits for viticulture.
Paper company Willamette, subject to a year-long hostile takeover effort by Weyerhaeuser, fell 12%.
Willamette Industries rejected a sweetened hostile takeover bid from rival wood-and-paper-products concern Weyerhaeuser in a unanimous vote of its board.
The trail: The lush Willamette Valley in northwest Oregon offers a plethora of trails for wine enthusiasts.
Here pioneers loaded their wagons onto barges and floated down the Columbia and then the Willamette River.
McCall made a major impact three decades ago by stopping large industries from dumping concentrated waste into the Willamette.
The Willamette flows through farmland and Oregon's major cities from Eugene to its confluence with the Columbia River in Portland.
And there were well-made, accessibly priced wines from Tony Soter's North Valley label and the "basic" Willamette Valley Pinot from Domaine Drouhin.
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Overlooking the Willamette River west of downtown Portland, Forest Park is one of the largest protected wilderness areas inside a US city.
While California has its big cabernets and buttery chardonnays, Willamette Valley winemakers have become famous for the finicky, cool weather pinot noir grape.
At 1, 800 acres, Pinot Gris covers almost twice as much vineyard land there as Chardonnay, much of the best in the Willamette Valley south of Portland.
She has co-founded several successful entrepreneurial programs for the Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce, including Smart-ups Pub Talks and the Southern Willamette Angel Network.
For the romantic adventurer, Portland Kayak Company offers guided sunset and moonlight tours of Ross Island, the biggest of the four forested Willamette River islands.
Even in places where it's a good fit, like Alsace, Friuli, Trentino-Alto Adige and Oregon's Willamette Valley, the wine involves plenty of risk and offers uncertain reward.
Some sophistos sashayed their way into trendy places like Portland's Pearl District, but many others looked to the charming smaller towns of the Willamette Valley and central Oregon.
When I asked Hank Hoell recently about the state, he waxed on about hiking the spectacular Cascades, the dreamy coastal towns and the rich farmlands of the green Willamette Valley.
"The worst may still be ahead of us, " Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber said Wednesday as he issued a warning to people who live along the Willamette and lower Columbia rivers.
The Clean River Plan is just one facet of the city's drive to implement a new strategy for the Willamette as the 2005 bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition nears.
There are kayak rentals along the west and east banks of the Willamette, where you can explore on your own or with a group, gliding under bridges and taking in the cityscapes.
Ms. Harrison is one of Oregon's most promising new talents, having come to the Willamette Valley by way of Southern California, where she worked with the famed Manfred Krankl at Sine Qua Non.
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But you're now in the mood to hang out and taste wines with your friends, and that's the catalyst to sit at the table and order a bottle from Willamette or Burgundy and have some food that complements the wine.
When planning your trip, start with a good map, like the one that is available online from Willamette Valley Wineries, and check the hours for every tasting room in advance as they may change depending on the season and day of the week.
American vintners have cultivated pinot noir for a century, but only in the last decade have they discovered the best micro-climates for growing it: Oregon's Willamette Valley and a half-dozen California locations, including Carneros in southern Napa and Sonoma counties, and coastal regions near Santa Barbara.
Georgeson's Goldfarb, who specializes in proxy fights, sees this as proof that institutional investors are becoming more involved in companies in which they sink money, and cites fights that occurred at Willamette Industries and Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) as proof.
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