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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001144204-09-064795
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FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			WILLAMETTE VALLEY VINEYARDS INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000838875
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	BEVERAGES [2080]
		IRS NUMBER:				930981021
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			OR
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		8800 ENCHANTED WAY S E
		CITY:			TURNER
		STATE:			OR
		ZIP:			97392
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5035889463

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		8800 ENCHANTED WAY SE
		CITY:			TURNER
		STATE:			OR
		ZIP:			97392
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2008</font></div>
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and Gentlemen:</font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 18pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman"><font id="TAB1" style="MARGIN-LEFT: 18pt"></font>We have received your letter dated
December 2, 2009, in which you had two comments to the Form 10-K for Fiscal Year
Ended December 31, 2008 (the &#8220;2008 Form 10-K&#8221;) previously filed by Willamette
Valley Vineyards, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the &#8220;Commission&#8221;) on March 31, 2009. The Company&#8217;s responses to the
Commission&#8217;s comments are set forth below. In addition, an amendment to the 2008
Form 10-K (the &#8220;Amendment&#8221;) containing changes incorporating certain of the
Company&#8217;s responses to the Commission&#8217;s comments is filed with this
letter.</font></div>
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Internal Control over Financial Reporting, page 42</font></font></div>
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    <div style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" align="left"><font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">1.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-STYLE: italic">Commission&#8217;s
Comment:</font>&#160;&#160;We note from your response to comment 2 of our letter
dated November 5, 2009, you do not believe that the material weakness related to
the lack of adequate job sufficient accounting and finance personnel has had a
pervasive effect upon your financial reporting due to your ability to make the
necessary reconciling adjustments to your financial
statements.&#160;&#160;Please tell us whether the necessary reconciling
adjustments are identified by management or by your auditors.&#160;&#160;To the
extent they are identified by your auditors, explain to us why you believe that
the impacts of inadequate accounting and finance personnel are limited to those
areas where significant audit adjustments arose and do not affect all areas of
financial reporting.</font></div>
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Response:</font>&#160;&#160;<font style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman">The
Company has amended its 2008 Form 10-K to provide disclosures responsive to the
Commission&#8217;s comments. </font>The reconciling adjustments posted to our 2008
closing trial balance were identified by both the company&#8217;s internal accounting
personnel and our auditors after our closing trial balance was provided to our
auditors for their final fieldwork in February. Of the adjustments posted during
this period, one was deemed to be a significant fourth quarter adjustment and
was disclosed in Footnote 14 of our 2008 financial
statements.&#160;&#160;&#160;This adjustment, which increased cost of goods sold
and decreased ending inventory by $140,540 for the allocation of certain
produced wine expenditures to the cost of goods sold, was identified by our
auditors.&#160;&#160;The other significant fourth quarter adjustment disclosed
in Note 14 of our 2008 financial statements for the adjustment of inventory for
our year-end physical count was identified by management prior the time our
closing trial balance was provided to our auditors.&#160;&#160;&#160;There were
other insignificant adjustments identified by both management and our auditor
after the commencement of the audit final fieldwork.</font></div>
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reconciling adjustments posted during the year-end financial statement close,
combined with the year-end physical inventory adjustment, we undertook an
evaluation of the underlying causes of these errors, including an evaluation the
accounting and finance personnel, in connection with our assessment of the
effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting at December 31,
2008.&#160;&#160;&#160;We expanded the scope of the related reconciliations and
as well as additional analysis of other accounts in light of the material
weaknesses identified.&#160;&#160;We believe the additional procedures performed
by management subsequent to the commencement of our auditors fieldwork, but
prior to the filing of our Form 10-K mitigated the risk of material misstatement
in the financial statements.</font></div><br>
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Mr. Fox, but you do not state the years in which he occupied such positions or
the principal business of the identified company.&#160;&#160;Please revise to
provide this information.&#160;&#160;See Item 401(e)(1) of Regulation
S-K.</font></div>
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to provide disclosures under Item 401 of Regulation S-K with respect to Mr. Fox
pursuant to Item 10 of Part III of Form 10-K. We refer the Commission to the
Amendment filed with this letter</font>.</font></div>
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satisfaction.</font></div>
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connection with the Company&#8217;s response to the Commission&#8217;s comments, the
undersigned hereby acknowledges on behalf of the Company that:</font></div>
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      comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not
      foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the
      filing; and</font></div>
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      initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities
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have any questions regarding the foregoing please contact the undersigned at
(503) 588-9463.</font></div>
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