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2010 Person of the Year: Dave & Deolinda Coelho
We at Oregon Wine Press are delighted to announce our selection for Wine Person of the Year is not one person but two people, who in many ways are like one: Dave and Deolinda Coelho of Coelho Winery in Amity.
CWA Hires New CEO
The board of directors of the Classic Wines Auction (CWA) has hired Virginia Hensen as chief executive officer of its nonprofit corporation, First Growth Children and Family Charities, Inc., (dba Classic ...
100K to UCC
The Foundation of Umpqua Community College recently received a $100,000 gift from the Crane Creek Family Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation toward the construction of the Lang Teaching, Learning and ...
Le Beaujolais Nouveau est Arrive!
By Mark Stock Beaujolais Nouveau is at once un-French and yet entirely French. Released officially the third Thursday of every November, this wine is made in an astonishingly brief period of just eight ...
#4 STORY of 2010: Miles and Jack Are Back
Pinot-pitching book’s second round sees “Sideways” duo Miles and Jack bound for Oregon’s acclaimed International Pinot Noir Celebration, where Miles has agreed to serve as master of ceremonies. But the foible-filled journey that eventually sees them arrive in McMinnville for a brief bacchanal serves mostly as backdrop.
Left Coast Café
This summer, Left Coast Cellars expanded their tasting room to include a café, and this fall, the menu continues to entice wine and food lovers alike. Formerly of King Estate’s catering department, ...
¡Buen Trabajo!
Santé, the magazine for restaurant professionals, has named Nel Centro — located in Portland’s Hotel Modera — a winner of the 2010 Santé Restaurant Awards. Now in their ...
AVA Modifies Name
The Yamhill-Carlton District AVA (American Viticultural Area) has been changed to Yamhill-Carlton. “It was simply too long to fit on a number of producers’ labels,” said Ken Wright, ...
Rogue Chefs Up North
Already the successful owners of Underground Café & Coffeehouse and Subterra – A Wine Cellar Restaurant, both located in Newberg, Janet and Martin Bleck have formed yet another culinary ...
Bottled Up at SOWI
The Southern Oregon Wine Institute at Umpqua Community College received $9,000 worth of donated wine bottles from O-I (formerly Owens-Illinois), the world’s largest glass manufacturer, in mid-November. ...
Corked Excursion
Willamette Valley Vineyards sent Tom Owen and Luci Wisniewski on Nov. 7 to Portugal on behalf of the winery and its support of Cork ReHarvest, a local nonprofit cork-recycling program. The couple won the ...
JPR Toasts 30
By Janet Eastman Thirty years ago, the economy was hurting, Southern Oregon was a viticultural mystery and the region’s national public radio was starved for operating income. The crazy idea to ...
