Meet Wayne

I grew up in Beaverton, a great suburb of Portland and my love for Oregon wines began in the mid 1980’s. At that time there were only a handful of wineries here in the Northern Willamette Valley, today there are over 900 and growing. Back then wine tasting was just a hobby but in the mid 90’s I took it a little more seriously and made the decision to move to the Napa Valley in California. Not turning my back on Oregon, just broadening my knowledge and understanding of west coast wines. I was lucky to have been there when I was, I got to know Robert Mondavi while working at Mondavi Winery, and let’s face it, in the mid 90’s The Napa Valley was cool as “F”!
Eventually my wandering heart and love of wine lead me back to Oregon where I started A Great Oregon Wine Tour with a minivan, a winery map, a website and a fancy new flip phone.
I opened a small wine shop in SE Portland called WineUp Wine Merchants. Life was simple, exciting and a great adventure. The wine shop was where I REALLY learned about wines from all over the world, and out on the wine tours was where I REALLY learned about the wines of Oregon. If managing a wine shop and an emerging wine tour business wasn’t enough I started a show on the internet called WineUpTV.com. It was a blast, I got to interview distributors and winemakers both local and when they were in Portland I interviewed winemakers from all over the world. I filmed from my wine shop, I filmed in Wine Country, I filmed wherever I thought would be fun and interesting. Those old shows are here on the website and on our UTube channel oregonwine.tv I sold the wineshop to focus on the tour business and filmed my last show in 2017.
Every day since then I thought about the show, the hundreds of winemakers I met, the great wines I got to sample but mostly how much I truly loved filming.
With the encouragement of my wife and business partner we “got the band back together” rebranded to OregonWine.tv and filmed our first show out in the Dundee Hills in Dundee Oregon.

I’M BACK BABY!!!!
Tune in to see where we will be filming next.