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Winemaker Remy Drabkin standing on the porch of Remy Wines’ tasting room. ## Photo by Cheryl Juetten

The Emerald Standard

Remy Wines celebrates 20 years– and has redefined what a small winery can accomplish

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Grape Explications!

OWP contributor releases first book

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Smitten with the Mitten

Blind tasting reveals surprising results for tasting panel

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Consume with Confidence

New book makes wine more approachable

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Cover of the Slow Wine Guide USA 2025 edition. ## Photo provided

Slow Your Roll

Slow Wine Guide USA 2025 edition includes 72 Oregon wineries

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ABOVE: Poster promoting this year’s American Association of Wine Economists conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. ##Image provided

Swiss Name, Oregon’s Gain

Read about the American Association of Wine Economists Conference and Pinot Noir's Wädenswil clone

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Uncorking the Truth

New book relies on science to dispel alcohol myths

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Audio Explorations

Give these three wine-focused aural mediums a listen

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Nefarious Deeds

New book exposes wine frauds

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Acorn to Oak staff, from left: James Litton, Victor Sandoval, Alyssa Sepulveda and Paul Johnson standing in front of the mural by Allison Hmura.##Photo by Neal D. Hulkower

Acorn to Oak

Linfield raises the bar

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Madeline Rausch, winemaker at Bergström Wines, using a technique called pigéage à pied (foot stomping) on freshly-picked whole clusters of Pinot Noir grapes.

Rachising Up Pinot Noir

Stems add more dimension to Willamette Valley’s most produced wine

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A Quick Look at Slow Wine

Many Willamette Valley wineries are included in upcoming guide

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Paul James White’s Talha Tales book.##Image provided by Neal D. Hulkower

Talha Wine Tales

Clay vessels and Portuguese wines

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Bewitching Tales

Multi-award-winning Canadian author’s memoir

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A look into what was once called Happy Valley by the locals from the Celestial Hill garden and overlooking Glenn Vineyard, planted in 2002.##Photo provided by Celestial Hill Vineyard

Heavenly Juice

Starry-skied Celestial Hill Vineyard focuses on Pinot Noir and Chardonnay

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Panel discussion during 2019 event.From left; Robert Brittan, Brittan Vineyards; Kate Payne-Brown, Stoller Family Estate; Jason Lett, The Eyrie Vineyards, Ben Castell, Bethel Heights Vineyard and Michael G. Etzel, Beaux Frères.##Photo by Neal Hulkower

Sip, Sip, Hooray!

The proof exists in the numbers: Oregon Chardonnay is in a bull market. From 2018 to 2021, planted acres increased over 13 percent from 2,406 to 2,724, and harvested acres were up almost 5 percent from 2,185 to 2,291. Over the same period, the price per ton rose a whopping 45 percent, from $1,860 to $2,700. The great white grape of Burgundy firmly holds third place after Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris as the most planted grape in the Beaver State.

 

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Adult Ed

American Wine Society provides learning opportunities 

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Qvevri vessel graveyard at the Ikalto Monastery. Since it could take a year to produce a qvevri, they weren’t broken up and discarded when no longer useful. ##Photo by Neal d. Hulkower

Exploring Georgia

The cradle of wine

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Philippe André (left) with Larry Stone, co-founder of Lingua Franca Winery, at this year s IPNC.##Photo provided

Philippe André

2022 International Pinot Noir Celebration's lively Master of Ceremonies

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José Tejada smiles after receiving his AHIVOY program certificate of completion. ##Photo by Sean Carr

Graduation Day Tres

On April 27, 15 men completed the Asociación Hispana de la Industria del Vino en Oregon y Comunidad, or AHIVOY. The Wine Industry Professional Training Program is the third – and largest – ...

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Contributors

Freelancers make OWP shine each month.

Neal Hulkower is interviewed for the Linfield University Oregon Wine History Archive. ##Photo sourced

Turning the Tables III

Interviewing the Interviewers: Neal D. Hulkower

 

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Top row (from left): Yuliana Cisneros-Guillén; Rich Schmidt; Sofía Torres McKay; Javier Castaneda (Nysa); Enrique Cervantez Diaz (Lange); Ulises Ayala (Arylin); Christina Gonzales; Miguel López; Jessica Sandrock. Bottom row: DeAnna Ornelas; Elena Rodriguez; Leydi Gonzalaz (Vitis Terra); Ivan George (Vitis Terra); Sonia Nieto Solano (Archery Summit); Cynthia Hernandez (Alumbra); Eva López (Red Dirt); Sam López (Red Dirt). Not pictured: Roman Carbajal Franco (Atlas). ##Photo by Sean Carr

Graduation Day Dos

AHIVOY’s second class includes first women

 

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Standing: (from left) Elena Rodriguez, Alumbra Cellars; Cristina Gonazalez, Gonzalez Wine Co.; José Maritnez Lopez (graduate), Ponzi Vineyards; Sergio Reyes (graduate), Montinore; Daniel Barajas (graduate), Results Partners; Jessica Sandrock, AHIVOY; Alejandro Avalos (graduate), Montinore; Rich Schmidt, Linfield University; Alejandro Moreno (graduate), Results Partners; Miguel Angel Azua (graduate), Wine by Joe; Omar Garcia Perea (graduate), Beaux Frères; DeAnna Ornelas, Winderlea; Sam Parra, Parra Wine Co. Sitting: Sofia Torres-McKay (founder), Cramoisi Vineyard; Miguel López (founder), Red Dirt Vineyard Management & Winemaking.#Photo by Kathryn Elsesser

Graduation Day

AHIVOY celebrates inaugural cohort

 

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From left: Omar Garcia; Omar Chavez, Hawks View vineyard supervisor; Natividad Ramos; Marco Coronado; Alejandro;  Moreno Velador; DeAnna Ornelas, AHIVOY president; Daniel Barajas; Alejandro Avalos Corona; Miguel Angel Azua; Don Crank, Hawks View Winery winemaker and AHIVOY instructor; Elizabeth Cryan, Spanish support facilitator; Sergio Reyes; Adrian Mendoza; Ben Hernandez; José Martinez Lopez; Elena Rodriguez, AHIVOY education committee member. ##Photo provided

AHIVOY Presses On

Hispanic group raises funds for education

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Neal Hulkower records his Slow Wine Guide interviews via Zoom with Josh Bergstrom of Bergstrom Wines. ##Photo provided

Zooming into Slow Wine

Slow Wine Guide persists with interviews despite pandemic

 

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LEFT: “Pinot Girl: A Family, a Region, an Industry” by Anna Maria Ponzi. RIGHT:  “Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations and Triumphs of America’s Youngest Sommelier” by Victoria James.

Tale of Two “Girls”

New memoirs offer contrasting views of a challenging industry

 

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Allen holstein leads an AHIVOY session in a Chemeketa classroom. ##Photo by Neal Hulkower

There They Go!

AHIVOY begins training, education

 

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The Battle Creek tasting room showcases a sleek interior design in its new Pearl District space. ##Photo provided

Battle Creek Rises

Willamette vineyard opens tasting room in The Pearl

 

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Are There Rocks in My Wine?

A down-to-earth examination of “minerality” 

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Opera singer/restaurant owner Nancy Emrick sings an aria at Elk Cove’s stunning estate vineyard outside Gaston. ##Photo by Kathryn Elsesser

Opera & Wine

A classic, dramatic duet

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The 2019 Oregon Chardonnay Celebration panel at The Allison Inn & Spa in Newberg (from left): Ben Casteel, Bethel Heights; Kate Payne-Brown, Stoller Family Estate; Robert Brittan, Brittan Vineyards; Jason Lett, The Eyrie Vineyards; and Michael Etzel of Beaux Frères. ##Photo by Andrea Johnson

Coming of Age

Oregon Chardonnay Celebration marks eighth

 

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Jesús Guillén Olvera (1980–2018)

Réquiem para un gentilhombre

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From left: Jesús Guillén, Sofía Torres McKay and Miguel Lopez. ##Photo by Andrea Johnson

Breaking Down Walls

Mexican-Americans build up community with mentorship

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Wine on the Brain

Authors examine tasting through brain searchery

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Willamette Valley Pinot Noir as a Cultural Good

Does its cultural value translate to a greater willingness to pay?

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Orto Botanico di Padova, site of the 2017 AAWE Conference, with the Piazza Duomo in the background.  ##Photo by Neal Hulkower

In the Garden of Wine Economists

Orto Botanico di Padova provides fertile ground for growing field

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Sue Horstmann accepts the 2017 Lifetime Achievment Award presented by David Adelsheim and Harry Peterson-Nedry at the Oregon Wine Symposium at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. ##Photo by Carolyn Wells Kramer  

Assembly Required

Wine Symposium key to industry’s advancenment

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: Apollo Chardonnay is named for the famous space missions. Hagge worked at NASA Houston from the time of Apollo 7 through 13. ##Photos by Paul Cunningham, Paul Cunningham Photography

Space-Aged Offering

Former NASA scientist honors past with wine

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Grape Explications

Musings of a novice wine writer

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News Briefs

August 2016

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Guests at the event work on tasting notes for the wines, all made from Dundee Hills fruit.

Vintage Speak

Dundee Hills tasting fine-tunes 2014’s focus

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Marcus Horne, owner of Homegrown Weed & Wine Tours, chats with a participant at Duck Pond Cellars in Dundee. ##Photo by Nick Taylor

Wine Country Canni-bus

Homegrown Weed & Wine Tours rolls out new kind of tourism

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Grape Expectorations

Confessions of a novice spitter

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The Grand Dinner was, once again, hosted in the Oak Grove on Linfield College’s campus.##Photo by Andrea Johnson

IPNC Is for Connoisseur

Pinot Noir enthusiasts unite

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Maryam Hariri of New York University (right) answers questions during a session on climate change and sustainability while (from left) Dan Moscovici, Stockton University; Alistair Reed, Melbourne Polytechnic; and Britta Niklas, University of Bochum, listen.##Photo by Neal Hulkower

Econ in Argentina

AAWE members gather in Mendoza for Malbec, math and more

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The Chosen None

Refusing to name favorites enriches experience

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Kaleidolfactic

Words can fail the nose when describing wine.

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IPNC for the Rest of Us

Passport to Pinot broadens eager audience

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AAWE conference attendees visit winery and brewery incubators at the Walla Walla Airport.##Photo by Orley Ashenfelter

Follow the Paper Trail

Wine economists travel to Walla Walla for annual meeting. 

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