After 33 years, Doyle Hinman returned to the grapevines he planted half a century ago, the ones that propelled him into Oregon’s wine industry.
He founded Hinman Vineyards in 1979, bottling his first commercial wines on the South Willamette Valley estate. He and his wife, Sue Ann Hinman, raised three kids there and cemented their name in Oregon’s wine industry.
The Hinmans sold their estate in 1993, but bought it back last month, marking both a rare kind of sale in the wine industry and a homecoming…