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This year, for our annual holiday gift guide, the Tiny Travelers are showcasing the best gifts from local stores and producers to send to all of the far-flung friends and family you haven’t been able to visit during the past year. We at Visit McMinnville wish you health and happiness this holiday season and for 2021, too!

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We can’t guarantee snow, but practically everything else you’d want for a picture postcard holiday can be found in downtown McMinnville the next few weeks.

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“Art is food for the soul for artists, as well as for the supporters of local small businesses in our community,” says Currents Gallery’s Marlene Eichner. With the holidays upon us, keep those thoughts in mind when shopping for gifts — locally, of course.

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Michelle Grannis stands behind the front desk in the lobby of the Atticus Hotel, a 36-room luxury destination in downtown McMinnville. It’s clear she loves her work as the hotel concierge after more than 15 years in the hospitality and food service industries. She’s equally adept at guiding hotel guests toward their memorable wine country experiences and concocting a custom macchiato on the hotel lobby espresso machine.

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In the Willamette Valley, we’ve been soaking up the glorious periods of low, filtered autumn sunshine before the inevitable rains come, as they do in the Pacific Northwest.

So what comes next? We look for good places where we can slow down, nuzzle up, and consume some comfort food and drinks. And McMinnville is the perfect place to do just that.

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Walking into Mac Market, I sense an odd dichotomy of space. This large, open, and recently renovated warehouse looks cavernous. Still, it’s comfortable. I order a coffee and settle into a chair for a morning conversation with Mac Market manager Britt Guthmiller.

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Yes, I’ve dragged my kids along while wine tasting before, but never with as much success as our recent visit to Knudsen, which only opened its tasting room in July and which just launched its brand new Kids’ Tasting Challenge. Wineries in and around McMinnville are beginning to engage children in the experience of tasting and the winner in this game is everyone.

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October is the occasion for our annual Scarecrow Contest, a fall tradition started by the McMinnville Downtown Association in 2013. Local shop owners and groups get their Halloween on and shift into Frankenstein mode: They make a man (or sometimes a woman) and post the life-sized creature along Third Street to greet passersby.

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Wash your hands, yes. But with so many hand-washings every day, and travel difficult, let me propose something different: Soap Travel.

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October in Oregon wine country is one of the most stunning times to experience the Willamette Valley, with the trees (and grapevines!) put on a spectacular show of reds, oranges, and yellows. For adventurous visitors, opportunities abound to stroll through many of the wooded areas of our region to take it all in.

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