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Busacca Digs New Space

Celebrated soil scientist opens tasting room in Bingen, Wash.

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A young Dick Troon hangs a winery sign in 1976 at his Applegate Valley vineyard.
Photo provided.

Farewell, Mr. Troon

Applegate Valley’s success started with Dick Troon

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A group of Roseburg residents, including Abacela’s Earl Jones and SOWI’s Dwayne Bershaw, visited a wine cellar underneath the historic center of Aranda de Duero in Spain’s wine region along the Duero River.

Tracking Tempranillo

Some people will go to great lengths to learn about wine. 

In early September, eight Roseburg residents flew 6,000 miles to study Tempranillo in Spain’s Ribera del Duero. For three days, the group, led by Earl Jones of Abacela, walked across silty soil and into damp wine cellars.

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Tuality Healthcare ¡Salud! Services Clinical Nurse Manager Leda Garside talks with vineyard workers during a mobile clinic at Ponzi Vineyards’ winery.

Salute to ¡Salud!

Oregon’s wine industry can look with pride on its many accomplishments over the years. Rising from obscurity to world-class acclaim is the most significant among them.

But almost equal to that, in its own way, is something called simply “¡Salud!”

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Art Harvest Studio Tour

Nineteen years ago, a group of artists sat around a table discussing how to invite their community neighbors into the life of an artist. They believed that the public, particularly students, needed to ...

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Pinot Noir is harvested at Anam Cara Vineyards in the Chehalem Mountains AVA. Photo by Andrea Johnson.

Acid Quest

Winemakers, winegrowers seek to balance pH in fruit and wine

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Coming into the courtyard of Domaine Margelle in the Cascade foothills east of Salem is like being magically transported to the French wine country.

Merivelleuse Margelle

Wine chateau conveys the feeling of France in Oregon

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Francis Plowman, Rogue Creamery marketing director and his wife, Gail, give guests samples of the Southern Oregon creamery’s cheese at last year’s event.

The Wedge Returns

Portland’s cheese celebration readies for its third event

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YES to Yamhill

Susan Sokol Blosser begins a new kind of campaign

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Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-Oregon 5th District)

Oregon’s Schrader Co-sponsors HR 1161

By Wine Press Staff U.S. House Resolution 1161 was introduced March 17 at the request of the National Beer Wholesalers of America with the support of the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America. The ...

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Harvey Shafer

A Man of Unassuming Accomplishment

Pioneering winemaker’s life devoted to wine and family

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Harvest Approaches

Growers statewide get ready for a bountiful October harvest

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Joe Dobbes. Photo by Andrea Johnson.

Dobbes Secures Backing

Dundee winery inks agreement with San Fran investment firm

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Thomas Arvid’s “‘O’ What a Night” features three Oregon wine producers, Ken Wright, Archery Summit and Shea Wine Cellars. The 36-by-48 original oil on canvas is $75,000 framed.

“O” What a Sight

Catch a glimpse of Thomas Arvid’s homage to Oregon wine

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$1.25 Million Grant to UCC/SOWI

Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank announced on Sept. 1 a $1.25 million U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant to Umpqua Community College and the Southern Oregon Wine Institute ...

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Guests on the deck at Memaloose’s new tasting room located on the banks of the Columbia and Klickitat rivers.

Taste on the River

By Wine Press Staff The McCormick family of Memaloose Winery, located in Lyle, Wash., recently celebrated the grand opening of their new tasting room located on the banks of the Columbia and Klickitat ...

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Cider House Party

Come celebrate pickling season at the third annual Portland Fermentation Festival at the Ecotrust Building. Taste and share homemade fermented food and drinks made by professionals and home fermentation ...

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Change of Hands

By Wine Press Staff Daisy Creek Vineyard and Madrone Mountain Vineyard closed their shared tasting room on Sept. 1. Ledger David Cellars, located in Talent, will be taking over the storefront, 245 N. ...

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“Dishing Up Oregon” (Storey Publishing) by
Ashley Gartland is 288 pages, sells for $19.95
and will be released in November.

Dishing Up Good Grub

Ashley Gartland celebrates Oregon bounty with new cookbook

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Executive Chef Michael Landsberg (right),
Garden Manager Jessie Russell (left) and Sous
Chef Benjamin Nadolny gather organic produce
from King Estate’s 30 acres of gardens and
orchards.

Dining Like a King

Restaurant enhances reputation of Oregon’s largest winery

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When the Time’s Ripe

Vineyards evaluate measures for getting grapes ready for harvest

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