Grizzly Peak Winery

another trip to beautiful ashland finds me again at grizzly peak winery! with owners virginia and al, and tasting room manager naomi… they have been winning many awards over the past year and i was fortunate enough to be able to taste some of the winners.
their cab franc won best of the northwest and it is absolutely lovely… it reminds me of prince’s purple rain… beautiful, rich, cherry n leather… oh my! the pinot is elegant w beautiful color and bright fruit… wonderful finish! and my fave, is their malbec, which has such a fruit forward nose and lingers long on the palate with spice… ahhh…
do yourself a favor and visit the grizzly peak winery… you will have a great experience!!!

So happy to have discovered this winery during birthday weekend in Ashland. Great wines, excellent staff (Naomi was awesome, extremely helpful & friendly), fun tasting room, and spacious, beautiful grounds. We were with our dog & they get extra points for being dog-​friendly! Walked away with a Pinot Gris & a Syrah Rose — hard to stick to just 2 bottles. We liked them all, the Pinot Noir was especially good as well (plus the taste came with chocolate!) Something here for every taste. A bit off the beaten path, but be sure to check it out when in the area.

We drove in from Portland and are accustomed to Dundee wines, but the wines in Ashland and especially at grizzly peak have a lot to offer! Their whites were light and refreshing yet complex. They also had a wide array of reds (many award wining) that were all amazing. Their Cab franc and Cab sauvignon were outstanding. Our favorites (which we bought a case of) were the roses. We tried two roses – a tempranillo and syrah based rose – both of which were outstanding. A bit darker with more depth than your typical rose. Beautiful landscape, friendly staff, and wonderful wines make this winery so special! Go visit!

I can’t recommend this winery enough. My friend and I visited on a Saturday. We enjoyed a paddle of 7 wines with a chocolate to compliment it, which was a nice touch. We sat outside on the patio on a beautiful 80 degree day. What a perfect time. The best part of this winery is the staff and owners who we were lucky enough to sit and chat with for a bit. They are warm and inviting and make me want to rave to everyone I know about this winery. As for the wine I specifically enjoyed the Pinot which I had to get a couple of bottles of on the way out.
On a side note it is a beautiful location for weddings, and they are expanding to build a second building to accommodate events.
Go visit. It is a short drive from downtown and absolutely worth your time!

We visited this lovely winery on Saturday. What a beautiful drive in. We tried a flight and enjoyed there wines. Naomi was so friendly and taught us all about the different wines. We like the 2012 Pinot Gris and 2011 Malbec so much we just had to buy a bottle of each.
I am looking forward to visiting another time and going down by the river and enjoying a nice afternoon and a bottle of Pinot Gris on a cooler summer day. So nice to have such a wonderful place as a neighbor. Love to support a local business.

Very pretty and cute winery. It was our second stop, had visited edenvale first and thought the wines tasted at grizzly peak was much better with more complex tasting wines. We enjoyed the tempranillo and rumor. Good service. :)

Our family drove up to Ashland for a weekend trip. We went to Grizzly Peak for the evening. What a beautiful place!
There were plenty of parking. It is definitely an ideal place for a wedding, big or small. A local band was playing when we were there. They were excellent. There were enough people in town attended that we thought down town must be empty at that point. Our two year old had a blast from running up and down the hill, dancing the night away to going to the artsy tasting room to go to the bathroom.
The sound travelled well. We were down near the creek and we could hear the music just as well as being in front near the band. I don’t know much about wine, but everyone drank plenty of it so it must be decent.
Highly recommend as a pair visit the morning after a Shakespeare play.

Visiting Grizzly Peak Winery was a great experience. Situated on gently rolling hills just outside of Ashland, Oregon this winery has been growing for more than a dozen years.
Greeted by one of the owners, we had a tour of the property to understand how it has evolved over the years with a look at what their vision is for the future. Not ony to they make award winning wines which we tasted and enjoyed (and the purchased because we enjoyed them and knew we would like to serve them to our friends at home in the Bay Area) but they have event spaces and now a few overnight rooms for guests who so enjoy the wines at these events that they would rather not drive home.
By the way the owners Virgina and Al Silbowitz are smart, friendly people who know their business, that of making wine and making guests feel at home. Enough of their family members are involved with the winery at this point to make it a «family business». One can see that it features care and pride as well as great wines, now with a series using labels made especially for the winers by long time friend and artist David Lance Goines.
I think that anyone going to Ashland or as we were, traveling to points further north, should make a spacial stop to visit Al and Virginia and family at Grizzly Peak Winery. It is slightly off the beaten track but easy enough to find if you Google it and call ahead. And if you are planning a wedding, Bat Mitvah or other festive event consider their beautiful winery as a venue.

Perhaps not the best wine of all we’ve had that is made in this part of Oregon, but definitely among the friendliest people. Also a beautiful setting and while the tasting room is small and awkward to access now, they are working on what looked to be spectacular expansion plans.
Still, tough to give a winery four stars unless the wine is deserving, and while we’d award four for effort, for outcome of wine maybe only three.
Of the couple of whites and three or four reds we tasted, we purchased a bottle of the Mystere. A blended red that we thought was pretty darned drinkable. However, at about $ 20 /​bottle this is more than we’d expect to pay for, frankly, better lower end wines both domestic and imported at a retail location.
But buying a bottle from a tasting room strikes us as both a thank you to them for making the tasting available when there is no tasting fee (we were not charged here) and also as a means to support local agricultural efforts, which wine making is part of.
Hours are limited here (something like 12:00 — 4:00 pm) and only a few days a week. We simply stumbled upon Grizzly Peak a couple of weeks ago when we had a hour to kill before picking up a car at a nearby dealership. Not sure this is worth a «destination winery» designation for travels, but if you have time and are in the area when they are open, the people are so nice and the setting is so lovely, it is worth the stop.