Winemakers across Oregon are reporting good tidings about the 2024 wine grape harvest. “Overall, 2024 was a dream harvest!” says Blair Trathen, director of winemaking at Abbey Road Farm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley AVA (American Viticultural Area). Thanks to...
Good news, wine lovers! Winemakers across Washington and Oregon are sharing positive reports about the 2024 wine grape harvest. This week, we dive into Washington’s vintage—what growers and producers are saying about the season and what to expect in the bottle....
It’s a blustery, chilly, on-again/off-again rainy evening in mid-winter, among the longest nights of winter – when the darkness creeps in before you know it, blanketing everything in dreary gloom. Puddles lurk in the shadows and scarves are needed to buffer the...
Coming in every color between red strap and virgin pink, there’s a rosé to please every palate. Unlike in other classical wine regions, Pacific Northwest winemakers are unbound by grape variety and winemaking technique. A wider color palette reflects the broader...
Stay warm this winter and comfortably numb with this herbaceous recipe and consumption recommendations. "There's a big difference between smoking too much weed and eating too much weed," says Leather Storrs, chef and co-owner of Noble Rot in Portland. "Smoking too...
It's been nearly three interminable decades since downtown Eugene, Ore., has had a new hotel. Thankfully, the times they are a changin'. Out with moldy-oldy, hippydippy Track Town, USA, and in with the sophisticated, swanky Inn at the Fifth, erected on the former...
Three is a magic number, lyrically speaking, and in concept with Trifecta Tavern & Bakery that appears to have mojo to burn. It’s the third act from Ken Forkish, the James Beard Award-winning wizard of flour whose name emblazons Ken's Artisan Bakery and Ken's...
Yes, I am watching the current season of Top Chef, but only because Seattle’s most daring/darling chef Carrie Mashaney is competing for the title. If it wasn’t for her beaming face and fount of positivity and creativity on the tele every week, I’d have turned it...
In the space formerly home to the now shuttered Patanegra, Ataula has taken up the tapas torch from the previous occupants and makes it shine brightly anew. Before moving to Portland in 2012, Barcelona-born chef Jose Chesa earned his chops at several...
