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Taste the Place

Stop by Anne Amie Vineyards on April 30, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and taste the place with a select gathering of wineries showcasing the Yamhill-Carlton AVA. Local restaurants will be featured, too, offering ...

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Spring Fest Fun

One of Portland’s original beer festivals, the 17th annual Spring Beer & Wine Fest, returns to the Oregon Convention Center, April 22–23. New this year, the festival will partner with ...

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CWA Raises $2.2 Mil

On March 5, the 27th annual Classic Wines Auction raised $2.2 million to benefit five Portland-area charities: Metropolitan Family Service, New Avenues for Youth, Friends of the Children, Trillium Family ...

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Restaurant Poll

Wine & Spirits Magazine recently released the results of its 22nd annual Restaurant Poll, reporting on the most popular wines in America’s top restaurants for the fourth quarter of 2010. Sommeliers ...

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Have Wine, Will Travel

Wine tasting in Oregon has become a treasured pastime. Every day, wine lovers climb into their coupes, turn on their TomToms — or other GPS devices — and head into wine country. In April, ...

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Get Crabby and Winey

Celebrating 29 years, the Astoria-Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival will offer its annual spread of Northwest bounty April 29–May 1. Guests can sample local cuisine, peruse arts and crafts, ...

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Steve Goff, winemaker for Colene Clemens, prepares a barrel for Pinot Noir in the winery’s state-of-the-art facility.

Great Out of the Gate

First releases from Colene Clemens show impressive style

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Bud Break at Stake

Winter weather plays key role in vine vigor and upcoming vintage

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Hobbyist Bill Passes

SB 444 reinstates amateur contests and more

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David Adelsheim chats with guests at the Oregon Wine Flight to New York City tasting event at City Winery in Manhattan.

Big Apple: Big Success

Willamette Valley Wineries Association takes Manhattan

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Me and My Big Fire

Innovative photo and video contest uses clever QR codes

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Don Mixon, Russ and Margaret Lyon and Bret Gilmore at the Artisan Tasting Room for a Depression Session dinner.

Depression Sessions

Tasting room offers guests gourmet feast for affordable fee

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Beyond the Compost Pile

Applegate Valley company turns pomace into promising products

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Oregon encompasses 16 specific winegrowing regions called American Viticultural Areas (AVAs).

Learn Your AVAs

Oregon encompasses 16 specific winegrowing regions called American Viticultural Areas (AVAs). Each is unique in its geographic location, climate, soil and topography. When an AVA is designated on the wine bottle’s label, 85 percent of the grapes used to make the wine must be sourced from that AVA. Here's a tutorial on Oregon’s terroir-driven divisions.

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Oregon Cheese Festival

Say “cheese” and mean it at this year’s Oregon Cheese Festival at Rogue Creamery in Central Point on March 19. Thousands of visitors will sample cow, sheep and goat cheese from Oregon ...

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Choc-A-LOT

The seventh annual Oregon Chocolate Festival, March 4–6, is dedicated to Oregon chocolatiers and their creations. The Ashland celebration will bring together more than 30 local chocolate companies, ...

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Tech Talk

Southern Oregon Wine Institute at Umpqua Community College is teaming up with ETS Laboratories and Oregon State University Extension Service to present a technical symposium on March 8, 9 and 10 with expert ...

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Flavors of Carlton

Flavors of Carlton celebrates food, wine, art and a caring community. The annual fundraiser event, benefiting Carlton Together Cares, a locally staffed volunteer-based nonprofit organization dedicated ...

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Licensed to Wine

Cultivating Communities, a Salem-based nonprofit dedicated to promotion of travel, tourism and economic development, has proposed a wine country license plate to the Oregon Legislature. It would be added ...

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Change of Leadership

The Board of Trustees of the Rogue Valley Winegrowers Association (RVWA) elected officers for 2011–2012 at the Feb. 8 Board meeting. Jon Meadors of Agate Ridge Vineyard in Eagle Point has been selected ...

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Remember This Evening

Wines from the Willamette, Umpqua and Applegate valleys will be matched with dishes prepared by Rogue Valley restaurants at an almost all-Oregon dinner to be held March 12 at Ashland’s Lithia Springs ...

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