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Harvest the Opportunity

Experience the upcoming harvest during the North Willamette Vintners’ Harvest Trail on Oct. 6, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Get a glimpse into all that goes into making your favorite wines. Enjoy a guided ...

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Fair Game

This year’s Oregon State Fair Amateur Wine Competition, sponsored by Chemeketa Community College’s Northwest Viticulture Center, announced its winners Aug. 24 during the fair’s main wine ...

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Southern Exposure

Sampling Oregon wines from below the 45th parallel

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Guests gather on the patio at the new Stoller tasting room in Dayton during its grand opening on Sept. 9.

Grand Green Opening

Sustainability central to new Stoller Family Estate tasting room

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A Real Dandy

Courtney Taylor-Taylor, co-founder and frontman of The Dandy Warhols, has joined the Oregon wine industry, not as a rockin’ tasting room musician, but as a winery owner.  His label’s ...

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2013 Superior Cellar Awards

Iconic coastal resort, ravived Gorge treasure and Ashland's coolest steakhouse join the list.

In late 2011, OWP formed a partnership with the Oregon Wine Board to create greater awareness for the state’s wine industry by showcasing Superior Cellar Awards recipients.

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Chef/Co-owner Paul Bachand of Recipe in Newberg  sources meat and produce for the  10-Mile Dinner  hosted at his restaurant. Photo by Andrea Johnson.

10-Mile Dinner

Chef, winemaker and nearby farmers go the distance for a fresh-picked feast.

Chef Paul Bachand has been cooking in the Willamette Valley for more than 20 years. Buying local is one way he honors his wine country roots, supporting the local growers and ranchers.

Guests were treated to rare seared beef with wine pickled onion, heirloom carrot-squash salad and pommes de terre robuchon paired with Natalie's Estate 2008 Zinfandel at the "10 Mile Dinner" held at Recipe in Newberg. 

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Gus Janeway rests on his bike at Gold Vineyard in Talent, with owners Randy and Rebecca Gold s dog, Maya.

Pedaling Wine

Southern Oregon’s Gus Janeway rides path to winemaking

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Doug and Dionne Irvine stand in a parking lot that will soon be transformed into a multi-use building called The Vine; it will house a tasting room, boutique inn and more.

The Vine Revealed

Irvines to build multi-use culinary condominium in Ashland

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Jason Stoller Smith performs his yearly duty of preparing salmon for guests at IPNC s Salmon Bake on the campus at Linfield College.

Pinot with the Pros

International Pinot Noir Celebration welcomes newcomers

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Participating local chefs celebrate Feast Portland s launch in NYC on May 22.  From left: Ken Forkish (Ken s Artisan Bakery/Pizza), Vitaly Paley (Paley s Place), Elias Cairo (Olympic Provisions), Naomi Pomeroy (Beast), Jesse Manis (Cacao), Aubrey Lindley (Cacao) and Nate Tilden (Clyde Common).

Feast’s First Fete

Portland’s new food fest attracts talent from near and far

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Surrounded by Blog

Portland, Oregon wineries host the Wine Bloggers’ Conference

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Say YES to Yum

In commemoration of Yamhill County’s culinary bounty, the Yamhill Enrichment Society has created Bounty of the County, a multi-course dinner at Sokol Blosser Winery in Dayton on Sept. 9, at 5:30 ...

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World Of Wine 2012 Winners

This year’s World of Wine competition in Southern Oregon featured 182 wines from 47 wineries. Nineteen gold medals and 82 silver medals were awarded this year, both all-time highs. Of the 19 gold ...

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Wild About Game

Timberline Lodge will host this year’s Wild About Game and a winery dinner in conjunction with Nicky USA’s 12th annual signature meat-centric event.  Staged at Timberline’s Wy’East ...

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Southern Oregon in the Rose City

North meets south at this year’s Savor Southern Oregon, Sept. 16 at Director Park in Portland,  when four Portland chefs team up with the region’s farmers and fisherman to create unique, ...

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Gregory M. Sandor

Sandor Hired

Chemeketa Community College has hired Gregory M. Sandor as the college’s new director of the Department of Agricultural Sciences. Sandor replaces Craig Anderson, who retired last year. “I ...

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John Stromme (right) and Eddie Johnson paint Youngberg Hill assistant winemaker Ariel Eberle to look like the mural behind her at the McMinnville winery.

Mural Model

By Molly Walker When artists John Stromme and Eddie Johnson finished complex murals on the outside of the tasting room of Yamhill Valley Vineyards of McMinnville — complete with stones framing windows ...

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Carlton Crush

In celebration of Yamhill County’s most exciting time of the year, the city of Carlton will host a new event, Carlton Crush Harvest Festival, Sept. 15, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Staged downtown, the inaugural ...

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Domaine Drouhin Oregon was one of the first Oregon wineries to install solar panels.  Photo by Andrea Johnson

Sunny Site Up

Solar panel installations increase, giving more wineries substantial energy savings

If you’ve read anything about solar energy, you know its long-term benefits can be significant. Save energy. Save money. Save the earth. It’s a win-win-win all the way around.

What makes the installation of solar energy particularly appealing is federal rebates. Whether for home or business use, these incentives to install solar substantially shorten the break-even recovery time.

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Raptor Ridge has created owl boxes, giving the birds a place to roost and contribute to the vineyard s overall ecological balance.

Eco-Consciously Inspired

Wineries innovate sustainability in field, facility and beyond

Oregon wine is one of the greenest industries in the state, if not the country. Composting, recycling and earth-friendly farming are customary throughout Oregon wine country.

While Mother Earth is the ultimate teacher, Oregon wineries have cultivated some innovative practices that she’d surely approve of.

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