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Local Event
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Join us on the last Sunday in October for a pop-up featuring Ayres Vineyard! We’re thrilled to open GC Local up and share our Portland location with another small winery.
Brad and Kathleen moved from Kansas City, Missouri, to Portland, Oregon in 2000. They had no house, no land, no jobs, and no plan.
Upon arriving in Oregon, Brad begins working as a cellar hand at Domaine Drouhin. He will soon work his way up to Chef du Cave. The same year of their manifest destiny, Brad and Kathleen have the opportunity to purchase 38 acres near Newberg, Oregon, with Kathleen’s parents, Don and Carol McClure – a site that would become Ayres Vineyard and a homestead for three generations of family.
Soon after closing on the property, the family gathers at the vineyard for Thanksgiving, and they decide on a Helen Keller quote to grace the opening page of their business plan: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
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