This story ran in the winter print edition. For more in depth stories like this, subscribe or pick up a copy at your local newsstand. Just imagine. You’re walking over gently sloping hills through rows of vines, trodding along clover-hewn rows, with the buzz of...
Boy meets girl. Then boy meets wine and girl meets art. Years and vintages later that take the duo around the globe and back, boy and girl (also known as Brian Marcy and Clare Carver) planted their dreams (grapes and home roots) on a farm in Gaston, Ore., and...
We’re all familiar with farm-to-table dining. Inn at Red Hills is winery-to-bed accommodation. Make that fine, world-class wineries to sumptuous, elegant and well-dressed bed accommodation. Perfectly situated at the west end of Dundee, Ore., Inn at Red Hills...
Cool climate varietals thrive in Willamette Valley—plantings of Burgundian grapes (Pinot Noir and Chardonnay) were the immediate impulse for early Oregon vintners, as most Northwesterners now know. Alsatian varietals also made a surge, like Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc...
In 1917, the Freemasons initiated designs for a beautiful retreat in Forest Grove, Ore., just 26 miles outside Portland, which would be a home for aged and infirm masons as well as their widows and children. The lodge featured an elegant columnar façade overlooking...
Hot off the printing press comes the new label for Eola Hills Wine Cellars' introductory level of wines—the 2012 Oregon Pinot Noir and 2013 Oregon Pinot Gris, looking sharp-dressed and clean. Approximately 10 miles west of Salem, Ore., Eola Hills has been...
It would be easy to overlook Thistle. Literally—this tiny, unassuming 24 seat resto is located on a side street, off the main strip in the small town of McMinnville, Ore., ideally located in the heart of the Willamette and wine country. But, like moths to a flame,...
Born into a Bordeaux vineyard, formally educated at the Institute of Oenology of Bordeaux, having wet his feet at Chateau La Tour Blanche in Sauternes and Domaine Mumm in Napa Valley, Laurent Montalieu is more than a three-time tenured Oregon winemaker (see...
A wronged and robbed gold miner's ghost allegedly haunts the grounds of the Bayliss family's farm. The miner was traveling up the state to Portland during the gold rush of the 1860's when he was murdered and robbed of his gold findings in his sleep while on the...
As one of the founding farming families of Salem, Ore., the Zielinskis and E.Z. Orchards have been working the land of central Willamette Valley since 1929. Running a farmers market that changes with the seasons, E.Z. Orchards is also famous for their shortcakes...
