Become an AJ Shades Dealer in Yamhill County

Pinot noir put Yamhill County on the world map, and the dealer story pours from there. About 110,000 people live here -- in McMinnville, in Newberg, and among the vineyard estates of the Dundee Hills -- where tasting rooms compete on the experience and the experience lives or dies on the patio.

The tasting rooms are the commercial lane. Dozens of wineries pour along the valley's roads, and the shaded tasting patio is the revenue engine: comfortable guests linger, lingering guests buy bottles, and the motorized screen wall turns a heat-blasted terrace into the room everyone requests. Hospitality tickets run bigger, and winemakers talk to each other.

The vineyard estates are the premium lane. Custom homes among the vines with designed outdoor rooms and panoramic valley views: the vanishing screen preserves the panorama while killing the glare, and the cassette disappears into the architecture. Estate buyers choose on permanence -- and the fifteen-year warranty is the permanence answer.

Newberg's commuter tracts are the volume lane. The Portland commuter fringe keeps adding subdivisions: young families, bare patios, and the drive home every evening to the outdoor room they want to use. The open-roll retractable fits these decks, and the referral math on a new cul-de-sac favors the visible installer.

McMinnville's downtown is the character lane. The historic Third Street corridor -- restaurants, tasting rooms, and the UFO festival's annual invasion -- keeps the core lively, and retractable storefront awnings are the fastest facelift on the street. One striped install downtown becomes the portfolio piece the whole valley sees.