The steam lifted from my morning coffee to join the dense resting fog that sat amongst the mossed trees surrounding The Allison Inn & Spa. Standing swaddled in a fleece throw blanket on my suite’s balcony—one that trumped most city apartment’s terraces—I had a...
Vivid rainbows of produce fill the farm-fresh bins of Salem, Oregon's E.Z. Orchards Farm Market while aisles are stocked with artisan and specialty products from imported pasta and sauces to local dairy cheeses and backyard butchers' lamb chops. The compelling...
As a potential solution to what seemed to be unanswerable quandary to their son's early autism diagnosis, Doug and Aimee Heck changed the diet of two-year-old Joe. Healthier eating habits seemed to aid in their vanquish of autism (the Heck's detail Joe's recovery...
It's all about the apples with Yakima Valley's Swede Hill Distilling. From the apple growing capital of the country, Swede Hill has their pick of the fruit as the base of their spirits. Descendents of Swedish immigrants to the area in the early 1900's, owners Kevin...
Hallå from Ballard—the birthplace of Hilliard's Beer, one of the first craft breweries to can their suds in the Pacific Northwest and now one of the first Pacific Northwest breweries to export beers to Sweden. It only makes sense—the Seattle brewery is based in the...
Winemaker Rich Cushman has been making wine in the Willamette Valley and Columbia River Gorge long enough to have his own tagline: "Born in the Gorge." After attending acclaimed viticultural college UC Davis in the 1970s, Cushman left to apprentice in Germany,...
As if making wine wasn't enough for the husband-and-wife team Brian and Christina Callahan, the Woodinville, Washington couple launched Elemental Hard Cider in December. With Callahan Cellars and its wood-fired pizza oven under their belt in the wine tourism-heavy...
According to Kramer Vineyards winemaker Kim Kramer, her dad (and founding winemaker/owner) Keith started roasting coffee at their Gaston, Oregon winery because he was bored. Kramer, who started the now 18-acre estate winery in 1983 and has since passed the reigns...
The 13th Annual Washington State Wine Awards celebrated restaurants, retailers, tourism professionals and distributors "whose work raises the profile of Washington State wine throughout the state and beyond." Winners of the awards were selected from more than 130...
Perched upon a hillside amidst rolling rows of vines facing white-capped mountain tops, Anne Amie Vineyards is the quintessence of the Oregon wine country. The tasting room—appointed with reclaimed wood-beam ceilings, flawless shaker dining tables and windows that...
