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As the team at Adelsheim Vineyard celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021, they generously partnered with the Oregon Wine History Archive at Linfield University to share Founders’ Stories: Conversations with the 10 Founding Winemaking Families of Oregon’s North Willamette Valley. For more information on the project, visit adelsheim.com/50years.

From Adelsheim: To celebrate the 50th anniversary of what became Adelsheim’s first vineyard, we wanted to tell our story. But we quickly realized that the only way to truly tell our story was to tell the stories of that entire first generation. In each interview, David Adelsheim wanted to go beyond their widely known histories to discover, who these people really were. And what led them to build our uniquely collaborative and, at least from today’s perspective, incredibly successful wine industry. This is our shared story.

In April 1971, a mutual friend introduced us to Bill Blosser, who was a professor of planning at Portland State University. We met with him in his office and learned that he and his wife Susan had purchased property for a vineyard in the Dundee Hills. They invited us to their rented home at the foot of those hills for a May Day Party to introduce us to the wine community. We know the Letts were there, too. In my memory, it seemed like a much bigger party. But none of the other early growers remember being there. We interviewed Susan and Bill, one after another, in the Legacy Lounge of their new tasting room at their original vineyard site on October 7, 2020.