Every July Oregon's Willamette Valley hosts one of the most prestigious pinot noir festivals in the world: the International Pinot Noir Celebration. Tickets are sold out within days of the event's announcement. Top pinot noir winemakers from Burgundy, Oregon, California, and elsewhere pour their wines for devout pinot noir lovers. The culmination is the Saturday night salmon dinner, when some of the world's most famous pinots are consumed with wild salmon cooked in a traditional Native American manner over open fires.
