From Kickstarter beginnings, Portland-based Genki-Su launched a drinking vinegar venture off an old family recipe from Okinawa, Japan. According to Genki-Su, this ancient Japanese drink was created to help samurai warriors fight fatigue and today, drinking vinegars...
According to the Wine Institute, 40 percent of sparkling wine sales occur in November and December, during Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's. From the dynamic panorama of the Okanagan Valley to the border-straddling Columbia Gorge and the shores of Lake...
In Montana's Garden City, Missoula-based tea enthusiast Sherri Lee began blending tea on May Day, 1972 as Montana Tea & Spice Trading LLC. The company has since grown, developing herbal tea blends that range from fruity to floral, spicy to sweet and beyond....
For Derek Berger and Scott Heinrich, the 1980s were for making beer. The pair met in Bozeman, Montana while in school as budding engineers. The 1990s were for wine, when Heinrich ran a wine tasting website called TasteofWine.com, providing educational tasting...
The Northwest is a hotbed for mint—according to Washington State University, Washington is the top-producing mint state in the nation, producing the most spearmint and peppermint. Oregon is the second largest producer of peppermint and the fourth largest of...
Corvallis, Oregon's 2 Towns Ciderhouse has your cider solution to holiday survival. Released in October to bridge the gap of fall and winter in the world of cider, the Nice & Naughty Imperial Spiced Apple embodies the holidays in a bottle. With aromatics of...
First off—great name. Introducing itself to Portland juicers in 2008 (with said great name), Sip Juice Cart launched within a renovated camper in Southeast, opening a second location on NE Alberta three years later and their restaurant, Canteen, on SE Stark in...
South-facing, high elevation, cool climate, clay-loam soils, organically grown vines ranging in age from 40 to 50-years-old and a resident apiary with pollinating Mason bees to boot. These are characteristics that make up the Columbia Gorge's Atavus Vineyard. The...
If you're in Portland and you get a major hankering for some Lompoc Brewing beers, chances are you aren't too far from one of their brewpubs. Although the Fifth Quadrant brewery has the stronghold on production, there are four other locations, from NW to SE...
Who says wine, whiskey and beer get to have all the barrel-aged fun? Salem, Oregon's Anthem Cider wants in on the good times and does so with their limited release (and only seen in keg) gin barrel-aged cider, barrel courtesy of Ransom Spirits' Old Tom gin. Anthem,...
