NEWS / FEATURES
Oregon Olive Observance
By Wine Press Staff Oregon’s Willamette Valley has been growing Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris for the past four decades, but for Ken and Penny Durant, it’s not about just grapes anymore; they’ve ...
CWA Fall Dinners
By Wine Press Staff Eat local and support Portland and Southwest Washington charities at the 2010 November Winemaker Dinner Series, Nov. 2–4. The fall dinners add to the popular spring winemaker ...
Corrections from October
“Service to Servers” (October 2010): Chanda Miller is no longer the winemaker for Weisinger’s of Ashland; John Weisinger is the current winemaker. “Value Picks” (October 2010): ...
Spirits Abound at Cork and Bottle
By Wine Press Staff As most Oregonians know, when planning a party that includes both Scotch and Syrah, you have two trips to make; and that’s if you remember everything on your libation list the ...
Cluster Conference
By Wine Press Staff The Southern Oregon Wine Institute at Umpqua Community College will present the second Wine Cluster Conference on Tues., Dec. 14, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Lodge at Riverside Inn ...
Vigor + The Vine Worker
¡Salud! ensures Oregon’s seasonal employees have access to quality health care. The mobile outreach clinic for vineyard workers runs from the end of May through early September and this year traveled to 202 vineyards and wineries, with 23 days of clinics — two sites per day — where the staff treated between 60 to 120 patients each day.
Garage Tales
Robbins is not a commercial winemaker at one of Oregon’s 400 or so wineries. He is a garagiste — a French term used to describe a garage-based winemaking operation.Oregon has a long history of garagistes. It’s still possible to see the garages where Oregon wine pioneers like Dick Erath and Dick Ponzi first started making wine. And the tradition is still alive and thriving in Oregon.
Vincent Vino Unveiled
Portland has yet another player on its ever-evolving wine scene. Enter Vincent Wine Company. The brainchild of former home winemaker Vincent Fritzsche, the new label is definitely boutique with 216 cases ...
Groundbreaking News
Construction is now underway on the Danny Lang Teaching, Learning & Event Center at Umpqua Community College’s Southern Oregon Wine Institute. Construction, overseen by general contractor R.E. ...
Party for the People
With harvest and crush looming in the not-so-far distance, winery workers are relishing their free time while it lasts. And for cellar rats and winemakers in the northern Willamette Valley, it was that ...
Jan-Marc Makes Its Mark
Jan-Marc Baker and his wife, Barbara, have launched their own new wine label, Jan-Marc Wine Cellars. The Bakers are classically trained French chefs from San Francisco, who relocated to Portland in 1995, ...
