Southern Oregon is Coming to Downtown Portland Southern Oregon is a region to behold. Caves to rivers, forests to fields, Crater Lake to Ashland’s famous Shakespeare Festival: it’s all here. This part of Oregon also encompasses some of the finest land for growing...
As Washington’s wine industry gears up for harvest season, Red Mountain AVA Alliance Block Party invites wine enthusiasts to spend a day on the eastern edge of the Yakima Valley, mingling with the experts while exploring over 1,200 vineyard acres and more than a...
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...
It’s not hard trying to find something to do in the lively city of Portland. Any restaurant or bar will most likely suit your needs, and then some. So when this city decided to have a feast, it had to be a big one that took several days to complete. After a...
It shouldn't come as a surprise that RN74 Seattle's lead sommelier-turned-winemaker is producing Washington Syrah that resembles those from the northern Rhône valley in southern France. Named after the tourist highway that rides through France's Burgundy region,...
Give a festival a day and guests will leave wanting more. Give a festival two days and guests still may not be able to take in everything. Give a festival of a region’s bounty a week and guests will rejoice in the entire splendor it has to offer. Vancouver Island’s...
It used to be when thinking about Idaho that potatoes would come to mind and not much else. But long gone are those days now that Idaho has the reputation for its maturing wine industry. In 2008, Idaho’s wine industry brought in about $73 million and was...
Going once….going twice…sold! How exciting are those words? Exciting enough that the Auction of Washington Wines has raised over $28 million for charity to date. This year’s auction, one of the top enological fundraisers in the country, will split its proceeds...
Just imagine: vines tucked near by the South Thompson River, rolling grassy hills, wild sage, bighorn sheep… That’s right—this isn’t your typical wine region. This is the exciting frontier of BC wine. Harper’s Trail wines are the first made from vineyards in...
Terroir doesn't always get the respect it deserves. Some critics curl their lips at it, debating the impact "Bordeaux-like soils and terroir" really has on local land. Case and point of terroir, for this particular writer, is Susan Meredith and Frank Mitchell's...
