Southern Oregon Hosts at Wine Bloggers' Conference

It was a weekend of tweeting, facebook-ing, blogging... and drinking as 370 participants flocked to Portland, Oregon this past weekend for the fifth annual Wine Bloggers' Conference. While the attendees had packed daytime itineraries with vineyard tours, wine luncheons, barrel tasting and other VIP treatments around the Willamette Valley, Southern Oregon left its mark by hosting an "unofficial" after-hours party from 10 pm - LATE (as in 2 & 4 am!) Friday and Saturday evenings.

Representatives from Folin Cellars, Troon Vineyard, Cliff Creek Cellars, Del Rio Vineyards and Valley View Winery pulled nearly all-nighters to educate the bloggers on the region and pour wines from the Umpqua, Rogue and Applegate Valleys. For many, this was their first glimpse of Southern Oregon and by the looks of twitter they were very impressed with their discoveries.

If you were to judge the success of a party based on empty bottles, and a noise compliant from the floor above, then I say it was a hit. - Me, Christine Collier, who had to sign the noise compliant :)

Here are some pictures from night one of the party:

On each night we poured for 25-45 bloggers & wine writers

Blogger technique- take photos of labels to remember the 100s you tried each day!

Selection of Syrah & Tempranillo poured on Friday