NEWS / FEATURES
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, ...
Fall Classes at CCC
Chemeketa Community College is now enrolling for fall term pesticide classes. Students can register on the web at my.chemeketa.edu. If the student has not attended a class at Chemeketa within the last ...
James Beard Makes Trip Home
The James Beard Foundation (JBF) has selected Portland as the site where it will announce the nominees of the 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards, the highest honor for food and beverage professionals working ...
OWP Corrections
In the August issue, OWP failed to list Stag Hollow 2008 Dolcetto, Yamhill-Carlton District as a gold winner in Italian reds and blends category in the 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition. In ...
Roses to Red Wine
Zimbabwean forced to leave native country finds opportunity in Southern Oregon wine industry
Dana Campbell Vineyards takes root in the Rogue
By John Darling How does a career as Ashland’s public works director prepare you to create a beautiful vineyard and start marketing some tasty red wines? For engineer/Navy officer/waste-water treatment ...
#8 STORY of 2010: Oregon Wine Press 2010 Superior Cellar Awards
Oregon Wine Press expresses our appreciation to restaurants that have already made the commitment to featuring local wines. We look forward to seeing many more follow their example in the near future.
Coop Scoop
The most sublime Pinot Noir to grace your glass may be one of the hottest topics of conversation at the International Pinot Noir Celebration held every July since 1987 in McMinnville. But also swirling around the Riedels this year were the cast of characters at one wine country luncheon that had guests all aflutter.
Celebrate Oregon!
The Oregon State Fair once again played host to Celebration Oregon!, the awards ceremony and tasting event for the only all-Oregon wine competition in the Beaver State. Held opening night of the fair, ...
Jonah’s Just Begun
Jonah’s Just Begun, a foundation targeting a cure for a rare childhood syndrome, recently held a fundraiser at Methven Family Vineyard in Dayton. Willamina native Jill Wood started the nonprofit ...
Premeditated Pictures
New work by Sherwood-based photo artist Janis Miglavs will be featured in the Art of the Vine gallery show Aug. 26–Sept. 25 at Art Elements Gallery in Newberg. Art of the Vine will be displaying ...
Iron Chef Crowned
There is a new king of the kitchen in Oregon and his name is Gabriel Gil of Rabbit Bistro in Eugene. During The Bite of Oregon, Aug. 6 and 7, Gil went cleaver to cleaver against some of the best local ...
