Found my new favorite cider place! Friendly staff, beautiful setting, and lots of indoor/outdoor…read moreseating. Incredible ciders with tons of unique flavors. Love that you can do flights, or get slushie versions of some of the ciders. They also have some alcohol free ciders, and yummy food. The pretzel with cider cheese is a must! Looking forward to my next visit here!

What a beautiful place! The land surrounding the tasting room is so cool with a mini train that…read moreeven goes under a bridge. This place is very busy on a warm Sunday afternoon. They have some outdoor seats some covered some not. Comfy couches inside to relax and sip your ciders and charcuterie snacks. Service was great and fast despite the line of folks flowing in. They have cider slushies in a few flavors to choose from. The flights are a great way to see what hits your palate and you want to try it take a growler home. This place is very clean and the grounds are well manicured and taken care of. The Brazilian lime aid is my favorite as it tastes just like you're eating a key lime pie! I did like the hardchata as well, it's creamy and blast you with cinnamon. We had to grab a 6 pack of the Hard Brazilian lime aid to take home to enjoy. Fantastic find!

I haven't had a bad scoop yet. Big portions. I'm really hooked on their banana splits.read more

First warm night of spring, and this place was hopping! They moved the line quickly…read more Great flavor choices, delicious ice cream. They won't split a scoop though.

Beautiful location, inside the venue and outside overlooking the vineyard. Food was delicious,…read morepaired well with the wines, and service was outstanding. Couldn't have asked for better. It felt warm and cozy inside while still being a spacious setting. Plenty of parking.

First time at this winery and it was very beautiful, the views are so nice and the vibe is lovely…read more The wine and bread and snacks were very good. The bread was a little salty for my taste but it's very good. Our server was very very nice and I enjoyed his service. However there was another worker there that I found to be a bit rude. We had already gotten checked in by our server and had asked to sit at the table with the better view and he had already set it up and was just get it g water when another server interrupted us had asked us our name/ info, and claimed we had no reservation (which we did and we even showed her to email to prove it) and we tried to explain to her that we had already been helped and checked in but she was talking over us and ignoring us and saying what we wanted wasn't available even though we already had it. Overall not sure what that was about bc the entire time we stayed there till closing there were open tables

We decided to go to Ponzi after realizing they are Willamette Valley pioneers who had come from Los…read moreGatos. What an incredible place! The winery is an architectural work of art. The wines are very good to excellent. We both chose their home flight, which paired a chardonnay and a Pinot noir served side by side. Interesting concept. We also ordered the charcuterie board which was amazing (pricey, too!). At the end, we decided to join their club because it just makes sense. If you go, you may decide that, too. It was a special experience and memorable. I recommend.

We were there for the kids weekend movie and it was a hit, spendy but a hit!…read more My little one loved the Mac and cheese and they had a popcorn bowl she fill a bowl from; always winning. I had the farmers cheese and it was good and a large enough serving i could have shred it. People around us ordered the full board and it was massive enough for 2 very hungry people or 3/4 people sharing. The staff was amazing! Very friendly and so willing to help you pick a wine and provided table service. The sparkling Blanc de Blanc was so amazing I broke my wine budget just to take a bottle home to my very picky man. He gave it the thumbs up, huge win!!, and it will become a splurge wine for us; we love dry sparkling wine.

We visited Red Berry Barn to pick up strawberries as they were one of the few places open with…read moreHoods on Memorial Day. Walking in at 9AM, they had plenty of prepicked pints on a table and also an entire field of strawberries available for U-Pick. Pricing is actually cheaper for the pre-picked pints, but I assume that's because U-Pick means you're eating while picking as well. Red Berry Barn grows three types of strawberries on their farm. Firstly, probably 30-40 rows of Hoods, then some Shuksans, and finally the ever popular (for farmers, given the day-neutral designation) Albion. It's actually quite easy telling the three apart. The Hoods are overgrown, barely kept organized into rows, with lighter color leaves hiding all of the strawberry red deliciousness hiding underneath. The Shuksans in the center, are the tallest of the plants, with striking dark green foliage. The Albions in the last rows look almost emaciated, with small leaves barely able to support the ample stock of strawberries growing from them. Red Berry Barn doesn't have any particular system for organized picking unlike some other U-Pick farms. Most the field was flush with berries, so we just wandered around wherever we wanted to pick the strawberries. We went here specifically to purchase and pick Hoods. The strawberries here aren't like those of other farms. For some reason, the Hoods are much larger, perhaps 3-4x the size of other Hoods, but still with the protruding cap. The outer shell is also quite a bit harder than the typical soft Hood. The taste isn't the same either, being still sweet and plump with good strawberry fragrance, but missing some of the perfumy quality an excellent Hood has from some of the non U-Pick farms. The skin is also much firmer - usually Hoods only last a day or two before going bad due to how delicate their skins are, but on Day 2, these strawberries were still firm. I have no idea if it's the terroir or the growing and fertilizer regimen fed to the strawberries or not. The Shuksans didn't seem to be ready at the time we visited. I tried a couple that looked ripe on the plants, but they were still mostly hard and tasted like sour water. The Albions, however, were among the best Albions I've had, at least the most ripe ones which consist of perhaps only 5% of the crop. They're super sweet and almost reach Hood levels of perfumy quality but with a different taste. Most Albions, however, basically taste like cold storage grocery store strawberries. Just to hammer it in more - the best of the everbearing and/or day neutral varieties like Albion can be great, but on average, they are worse than June-bearing varieties! Albion especially I think is built for shelf life thanks to the waxy coat on the exterior and the firm interior. We ended up buying a half flat of Hoods to save us some time, and picked up a $16 basket that probably fit around 3-4 pints of strawberries. Red Berry Farm derinitely does in a pinch to get some fresh strawberries. I don't think their Hoods are as good as from other farms, but they're still miles better than any grocery store strawberry.

We stopped by for coffee and a snack on our way to the coast. Their marionberry donuts are a must…read moretry! Next time we'll try the apple cider donuts.