Oregon Winegrowers Association
Organization · Founded 1981
Also known as OWA, Oregon Wine Growers Association, OWGA
Statewide trade association for Oregon growers and wineries, working on legislation, marketing and education. It began in Roseburg in the 1960s and took its current form in 1981 through a merger with the Willamette Valley's Winegrowers Council of Oregon; it petitioned for the Willamette Valley AVA in 1982.
Work
- Jim Bernau (lobbyist)
Affiliation
- Nancy Ponzi (officer)
- David Adelsheim (committee chair)
- Charles Coury (early member)
- Dick Erath (early member)
- Bill Fuller (early member)
- Bill Blosser (early member)
- Jim Maresh (early member)
- Richard Sommer (vice president, from 1969)
- Dick Ponzi (founding president)
- Al MacDonald (president)