We are Marion and Tom Vail.   We moved to Amity, Oregon in July of 2004.   We bought a small home with a beautiful view (north Willamette Valley, Mount Hood, Mount Jefferson, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams).   We purchased our home in March of '04 and had a few months to think about it and what we wanted to do with the property.   Neither of us had ever lived:  1.  In a true rural/agricultural community;   2.  In a home without a sidewalk in front;   3.  In a place of such beauty that we wake up in the morning feeling we are in a park;   4.  In a place that we did not cover every corner with landscaping.

We knew that we could not landscape 5 acres.   We also knew that the mixed wood lot planted by the previous owner and builder of our house was not what we wanted for the land.  We wanted to be good stewards of our land and use it for something to which it was well suited.   As we studied about the area where we would live, we learned that our land was covered with Jory Soil, renowned for growing some of Oregon's finest wine grapes, especially Pinot Noir.   The thought of planting a vineyard started to take shape.

Had you asked us prior to about 2003 if we would end up in Oregon's premier wine region growing grapes and making Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris, we would have wondered what was in your water.   If you ask us today if we like what we are doing, you better have a half an hour to spare because that will just get us warmed to the topic.

We are truly blessed to have found such a wonderful place and both think we must have been closet farmers all along just waiting for this opportunity.
 
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