NEWS / FEATURES
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, ...
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 ...
