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I wanted to send out an update on the status of our Oregon wine hiking tours, aka our wiking trips.  We will be posting more pictures soon. Due to land access issues we were not able to get the entire trail opened this year.  However we have a great set of trail at Left Coast...
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For a while new we have been working on a new project, a hiking wine tour, also known as wiking.  Our goal is to have the hiking tour available for reservations this summer.  The trip will showcase some of the great wines in the region, as well as the beauty that the Willamette Valley...
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We were recently reviewed by the Green Traveler Guide.  The Green Traveler Guides is an online guide for those looking for information on green travel.  We are happy to announce that they have recommended our wine tour services.  For those not familiar with the guide, Planet Green had the following to say: Green Traveler Guides showcases eco-friendly travel...
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Grand Cru Wine Tours is pleased to announce that, in our desire to develop sustainable business practices, we are the first wine tour company to become second party eco-certified through the rigorous Sustainable Tourism Eco-certification Program™ (STEP) offered through Sustainable Travel International (STI). When we started, being green wine tour company was a personal...
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Would you like to learn more about sustainability in Oregon’s wine industry?  We have arranged a onetime tour of the Carbon Neutral Challenge Wine Tour Route.  While the route has been designed for you, this is your opportunity to have us guide you along the route.  We have taken care of all of the...
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Would you like to learn more about sustainability in Oregon’s wine industry?  We have arranged a onetime tour of the Carbon Neutral Challenge Wine Tour Route.  While the route has been designed for you, this is your opportunity to have us guide you along the route.  We have taken care of all of the...
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On Friday we received a letter from Sustainable Travel International stating that they had completed our assessment and were awarding us our first eco-certification star.  To celebrate we have decided to give away a free tour for up to four people.  The promotion is being run on our facebook page.  You can check out...
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Do you love Oregon’s wines but also care about its environment? Would you like to taste some of the Salem area’s finest wines while meeting some its strongest environmental advocates? Then join Grand Cru Wine Tours on April 16th for the Salem Carbon Neutral Challenge Wine Tour—an exploration of three local vineyards that have...
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Last summer I met Richard Halpern, founder of EcoApprentice.  EcoApprentice was just getting started and was looking for companies that had an ecochallenge that needed solved. He was searching for a project that would require significant time and effort for a team of students from Portland State University to solve. I realized this was...
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Back in August we posted a mid season update on how Oregon’s 2010 vintage was shaping up.  At that point, the vintage was definitely cold and behind schedule.  Now that the 2010 harvest is over we are taking another look at how things shaped up. So how did things turn out?  That is a matter...
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