Rogue and Umpqua Valleys are quickly garnering a reputation for excellence in Alsatian varietals. Pyrenees Vineyard & Cellars, with its 30-acre estate riverside vineyard and Umpqua Valley bred winemaker, produces a handful of southern Oregon regulars like Syrah...
Vancouver sommelier launches the city's first custom-production winery Wine lovers, you’ve had that dream – the one where you’re pouring yourself the first glass of wine you’ve just spent months making. But at some point you will be rudely awoken and forced to go...
... And Other Great Sippable Gifts for Sunday! It’s the time of year where we raise a toast to the great ladies we’re lucky to call our mothers. Have you got her something special for Sunday yet? If you’re still looking, skip the knick-knacks she doesn’t...
Barnyard beverages at SipFest With all the sunny weather spreading it’s way through the Pacific Northwest lately, grills are firing up, cold drinks are being poured and social gatherings are moving outside. Hopefully this weather will stick around just long enough...
WINE WEDNESDAY: Indian Creek Winery 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon, Simms Vineyard As one of Idaho's oldest wineries, founded in 1982, Indian Creek Winery is family-owned and -operated in the Snake River Valley. Now in its second generation, Indian Creek produces a wide...
Appreciating Oregon: The State's Month Devoted to Wine Begins May 1st From Oregon’s Willamette Valley in the north stretching down the coast through the Umpqua Valley and finally reaching the Rogue Valley in the south, the terrain has become home to more than 450...
Chardonnay Q & A: Oregon Rekindles Chardonnay Debate with Second Annual Symposium “I suspect Oregon won’t be reticent about its chardonnays for long.” So hypothesized Eric Asimov, wine writer for the New York Times, who argued a year ago that Oregon Chardonnays...
Popping the cork on Portland Bubbles Week Pop, fizz, bubble. That’s the sound of a celebration starting and in Portland that is exactly the sound you’re going to hear from May 6 to 12. Pulling the cork for its first year ever is Portland Bubbles Week, a city-wide...
WINE WEDNESDAY: The Four Graces 2011 Pinot Blanc, Willamette Valley Named for owners Steve and Paula Black's four daughters (son Nicholas has been knighted "Keeper of The Four Graces"), The Four Graces winery calls 110 acres in Dundee, Ore. home. The family is...
Science Uncorked: The Science of Wine Pairings Comes to the Pacific Science Center During cooking, pineapple develops…volatile molecules from the soloton family. Other members of this family include curry, roasted fenugreek seeds, soy sauce, and sweet wines...
