EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Wine businesses unhappy with the Oregon Wine Association have created a second trade group.
The new coalition of Oregon wine industry stakeholders on Friday announced they had formed the Oregon Wine Council, the Eugene Register-Guard reported.
Members earlier this year opposed wine legislation they viewed as “anti-competitive.” The new group said it represents the interests of the entire state.
“We formed the OWC because a majority of large, taxpaying wine growers as well as many of small producers around the state don’t have a say in how their tax money is spent,” said Sam Tannahill, OWC board member and founder of A to Z Wineworks in Newberg, in a press release. “We haven’t been represented. Our goal with the OWC is to change that.”