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Back in the 80’s Vince & Carol Bryan, Cave B founders & owners started the Gorge Amphitheatre. In 1979 had purchased barren land of sage brush, dirt & basalt to grow wine grapes. Where the Gorge is now was our family picnic spot and we had noted the natural acoustics there one evening when some of us ran down the hill and others stayed on top but could hear us clearly. For the grand opening of our first winery in the early 80’s, champs de Brionne, we wanted guests to walk the 1/4 mile from our first winery building to see the beautiful views of the Columbia river and the sunset over the  hills. What better way to enhance our wine then to pair it with music. So we built a wooden stage & terraced the hillside. We all laid sod and flowers and booked a band. Folks loved it and we kept it going for seven years, expanding every year and hiring people to help us as needed. It was originally called the Champs de Brionne Summer Music Theatre and the name changed to the Gorge Amphitheatre along the way. After 7 years of building it up to 20,000 people capacity, first building the original stage and later bringing in a new larger, professional stage, starting overnight camping, and making it known to the world, we sold it to MCA. MCA eventually sold it to House of Blues, who eventually sold it to Clear Channel, which led into the Live Nation ownership. Today Live Nation is the owner and they are our neighbor.

 It is an easy to walk from the Gorge parking lots or Gorge camping areas to wine taste with us. Simply head west to the Gorge Oasis White Tents. Go left (south) until you see our path, called Gate 2 onto the Cave B property. Once through the gate take a right and head to the large basalt, round building which is our tasting room. On Gorge concert days we do NOT take tasting reservations as we set everything up differently to accommodate more people. 

Most often our wine tastings on concert days take place on our front lawn. Depending on the concert size either both our upstairs & downstairs tasting rooms are open for glass pours, bottle sales and snacks, and sometimes it is just the downstairs tasting room so concert goers can enjoy our huge lawns more easily. We often have live music on our Stage B Amphitheatre, located in front of our Quincy tasting room, that pair nicely with the bands at the Gorge. Many Gorge concert goers “pre-party” at Cave B with wine tasting, music and relaxing on our beautiful lawns. Music on our stage is always free to listen to, although we do ask you to purchase a bottle of Cave B wine if you are not wine tasting to support the winery and musicians. Wine tasting on concert days costs $20 per person, this covers the 4 tastings (2 white wines & 2 red wines) and helps us keep the concerts free. Please note on concert days we use our EVENT GLASSES. Event glasses cannot be taken home. Please leave your dirty glass on the marked dirty glass tables on the front lawn by both entries. Thank you for your help with this.

Wine & Music has always been an important part of our family history and we look so forward to sharing both of these with you.