Oregon’s newest wine country retreat mixes modern decor with pastoral landscape just minutes from downtown Newberg. Previously known as Le Puy Inn, the entire property was recently renovated, rebranded and opened in May 2021 under new ownership as The Setting Inn...
We are now accepting submissions for our tenth annual Best of the Northwest issue! Out in November, this annual print collector's issue will feature the top picks for wine, beer, spirits, cider and seltzer the region has to offer. The top four winning submissions...
We are now accepting submissions for our tenth annual Best of the Northwest issue! Out in November, this annual print collector's issue will feature the top picks for wine, beer, spirits, cider and seltzer the region has to offer. The top four winning submissions...
Think Oregon wine, and it’s impossible to not think of Pinot Noir – the black-skinned, temperamental grape known for the diaphanous, earthy red wines made from it. Oregon is rightly the land of Pinot Noir, but there are so many more amazing varietals thriving in...
May brings clear spring skies and blooming wildflowers. Need another reason to love May? It’s also Oregon Wine Month, a time to sip and celebrate incredible wine. The one thing that really stands out in the Oregon wine industry (besides delicious wine, of course!)...
2020 was a tough vintage for many West Coast winemakers. But for the two women in charge of growing grapes and making wine at the 80-acre biodynamic Johan Vineyards in Rickreall, Oregon, the twin challenges of COVID-19 and wildfire smoke played out against the...
Let us be clear here — Mama deserves (and needs) a drink and she can drink whatever she wants. Mama wants a glass of Cab Franc? Great. Mama desires a can of cranberry hard seltzer on the patio? Done. Mama requires a rocks glass four fingers full of bourbon? Mama...
If you’d ask Ben Casteel the clichéd-but-revelatory question of how he got into wine, his easy answer would be that he was born into it. His long answer? “I had always viewed winemaking as ‘my Dad’s job’ and had never considered it a possibility for my...
Spring has sprung, y’all. Plant them flowers, get your seeds in the ground … maybe take an easier route with some starts for peas or carrots. Now is the time for seasonal produce to prevail! An abundance of locally grown produce is about to appear on grocery...
People can’t wait to toast to the end of 2020 and the start of 2021. Good riddance to COVID-19, job losses, social disruption! Bring on vaccines, a resurgent economy, and social comity! Fortunately, there’s plenty of local bubbly available to fete the New Year –...
