Posted 07/13/20.Blog
Photo by John Valls Starting Tuesday, July 14 you can bid on rare Oregon Pinot noir and support no-cost COVID-19 health services for Oregon vineyard workers and their families. You don’t even have to leave the house. For three days only the Summertime ¡Salud! E-Auction offers the 2019 ¡Salud! Cuvée from…
Posted 06/20/20.Blog
Theodora Lee, owner and winemaker for Theopolis Vineyards in California’s Anderson Valley, said it best in a recent interview with Kathleen Willcox for Winesearcher: “There’s a movement, and it’s gathering force, and it can and I hope will affect all levels of business. We’ve seen this…
Posted 06/19/20.Blog
Theodora Lee, owner and winemaker for Theopolis Vineyards in California’s Anderson Valley, said it best in a recent interview with Kathleen Willcox for Winesearcher: “There’s a movement, and it’s gathering force, and it can and I hope will affect all levels of business. We’ve seen this a bit…
Posted 06/09/20.Blog
Photo Travel Portland Let us start out by stating, unequivocally: Black Lives Matter. Like you, the team and directors at the Oregon Wine Board have been processing, reflecting on and discussing our responsibility in the fight for racial equity in America. We must…
Posted 04/23/20.Uncategorized
Ganna Federova and Jody Petit are Certified Sommeliers on opposite U.S. coasts, sharing beverage director titles, as well as a love of Oregon wine. While Ganna serves as the national beverage director of City Winery in New York, with seven eastern locations offering music, food and wine, Jody is…
Posted 04/08/20.Blog
By now you’ve likely heard the tale of the Portland duo who met when a man poured his neighbor a glass of Ovum’s Big Salt an entire floor beneath him, out the window in NW Portland in April. There’s no shortage of acts of kindness among Oregon winemakers, too,…
Posted 03/20/20.Uncategorized
There’s no clever turn of phrase appropriate here. We can all simply agree it’s been a startling few days and weeks. When life and work are nearly one and the same – as they are for so many vineyard farmers and small business owners in Oregon’s wine community –…
Posted 02/03/20.Blog
Fresh off the heels of a January 2020 tasting of more than 450 Oregon wines, Nick Stock, executive editor of JamesSuckling.com, has published his Oregon report with glowing reviews of the state’s Nick Stock tastes Oregon 2018 Pinot noir Pinot noirs and Chardonnays. Of note and nabbbing the top…
Posted 10/11/19.Blog
Oregon wines claimed a special part in Australian wine reviewer Nick Stock’s heart in his latest Oregon report. For his second visit to our region, Stock tasted and reviewed 451 Oregon wines for the highly acclaimed James Suckling website, titling his report Oregon’s Best and Brightest Offer Great Pinots…
Posted 06/19/19.Blog
SUMMERTIME ¡SALUD! E-AUCTION | JULY 16-18 Each year a select group of 40 Oregon vintners release a rare and tiny cuvée of their best barrels for the annual ¡Salud! Auction in November. In July, an E-Auction allows wine lovers around the country to raise a digital paddle from home and vie for…