Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin You’ve got grapevines as far as the eye can see, either lusciously green in summer or soon to be deep crimson and gold in fall harvest colors. Then there’s all that rich red soil around you. And that’s just from your window at the new Grange Dundee Hills inn which opened mid-summer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
Who knew soils could have such poetic names, as you’ll discover in any of the nine one-off Grange rooms that are named for signature Willamette Valley earth types. On the second floor, the premier Jory room faces the sunrise and is named for the dark red, iron-rich volcanic clay found in the small 12,500-acre Dundee Hills area. A product of Ice Age flooding, Jory is the official state soil of Oregon, and allows for the Pinot noir and Chardonnay growing on property to thrive.
Vineyards stretch out forever from The Grange Dundee Hills. Credit: Foley Entertainment Group The Grange room Tolo is named for a volcanic ash, and Willakenzie for a dry marine sedimentary soil, while a silty loam inspires the Laurelwood room name. Some posters you’ll spot on property are graphic works of art on the geologic history of the Willamette Valley, a subject that could consume hours while you consume that juicy byproduct on site.
The downstairs public space at The Grange Dundee Hills. Credit: Foley Entertainment Group Design credit for the Grange’s two floors goes to the Portland architecture firm Urban Patterns whose hap.
