Dick Troon was one of the pioneer viticulturalists in the Applegate Valley, along with Frank Wisnovsky and Roger and Barrie Layne. He formulated a course in viticulture for the Grants Pass campus of Rogue...

John Ousterhout farmed turkeys for many years before trying viticulture. In 1970 he planted his vineyard from cuttings supplied by Porter Lombard, head of Oregon State University’s Hanley Road Research...