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Far East meets West in the vineyard
Southern Oregon winegrowers eye Portland weekend event
Unwine’d 2012: Highlights from Oregon Wine’s Big Event
UnWine'd Rewind: Celebrate Oregon Wine Indeed!
A New Generation of Winemaking: A Daughter’s Tale
Seven Hills Winery Knocks It Out Of The Park
Willamette Wine 2: Meeting Maggie Harrison, Antica Terra, for Melanie
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Articles in category: Wine Makers
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Leading Ladies
Explore Oregon Wine Press (May 3 2013)
Women winemakers add an inspiring combination of grace, power and passion to the vineyard and cellar. Everyday, they cultivate the ever-so-female — and ever-so-important — trait of nurturing through caring for the grapes, crafting the wine, raising their children and inspiring the next generation of winemakers. The following seven dedicated and experienced winemakers excel in what they do and can teach us all a thing or two.
Luisa Ponzi | Ponzi Vineyards, Sherwood/Beaverton
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Second-generation winemaker Luisa Ponzi grew up in the wine biz, watching as her parents, Dick and Nancy Ponzi, built Ponzi Vineyards in the ’70s. Shortly after Luisa graduated from ...
Vis-à-Vis with Veronique
Explore Oregon Wine Press (May 2 2013)
Women winemakers in Oregon talk of inspiration, sexism
Explore Great Northwest Wine (Apr 12 2013)
Recent research indicates Oregon can boast at least 39 head winemakers who are female, and yet that represents only about 10 percent of those all-important jobs within the state’s wine industry.
Earlier this year, a series of profiles on women winemakers published on Forbes.com helped shine more light and generated discussion. That inspired Katie Bray of Watershed Communications in Portland to create a roundtable of women who make wine in the Willamette Valley. The four head winemakers were Melissa Burr of Stoller Family Estate in Dundee, Remy Drabkin of Remy Wines in McMinnville, Lynn Penner-Ash of Penner-Ash Wine ...
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Non-Bordeaux Believers
Explore Oregon Wine Press (Feb 1 2013)
Southern Oregon winegrowers eye Portland weekend event
Explore oregonlive.com (Sep 12 2012)
As the area grows in numbers of vineyards and wineries, the debate is intensifying about how best to market Southern Oregon wines.
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Pedaling Wine
Explore Oregon Wine Press (Sep 1 2012)
Willamette Wine 2: Meeting Maggie Harrison, Antica Terra, for Melanie
Explore Hawk Wakawaka Wine Reviews (Aug 2 2012)
My sister Melanie was able to travel from Alaska in order to attend IPNC 2012. We had time Monday, after the close of IPNC, to meet with Maggie Harrison at the Antica Terra winery to taste through the current vintage barrels, and the current portfolio as well.
Tasting Wines with Maggie Harrison, Antica Terra
“All I can do is look at what’s in front of me, and ask, what is the most beautiful thing I can do right now? Then, take the time in that moment to do it.” –Maggie Harrison
“Chardonnay is a bit of a monster. It ...
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Dynamic Dialogue
Explore Oregon Wine Press (Aug 1 2012)
Doug Tunnell talks organics and his respect for the landBefore planting and establishing Brick House Vineyards & Wine Company in 1990, Doug Tunnell worked as a foreign news correspondent from 1975 to 1992.He worked in Beirut — off and on for about six years — then moved to London, Bonn (West Germany), Paris and Miami over the next several years. While traveling the globe, ...
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Message in a Bottle
Explore Oregon Wine Press (Jul 1 2012)
Fine Vine Viewing
Explore Oregon Wine Press (May 31 2012)
Seven Hills Winery Knocks It Out Of The Park
Explore paulgregutt.com (May 11 2012)
The fourth winery to be opened here in the Walla Walla Valley was Seven Hills. Casey and Vicky McClellan had already been partners in a vineyard on the Oregon side, and began winemaking a few years later. Finding themselves a bit stranded – an Oregon winery at a time when there was virtually no eastern Oregon wine industry to speak of – they moved to the historic Whitehouse-Crawford building in downtown Walla Walla, where they have comfortably resided since 2000.The Seven Hills style has been one I have always admired, for its consistency, its elegance, its longevity, and focus. I have ...
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Far East meets West in the vineyard
Explore Mailtribune.com (May 9 2012)
Japanese people like Oregon wine. I know this because sales to the land of electronics and efficient cars have grown, according to reports from the Oregon Wine Board — and because six people from Tokyo and Osaka told me so. In March, a group from Mottox, the fifth-largest wine distributor in Japan, flew in to visit Ted Gerber of Foris Vineyards in Cave Junction. The group toured the perfectly pruned pinot noir vines, checked out the wine-storage rooms with cases stacked to the ceiling and stayed
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Unwine’d 2012: Highlights from Oregon Wine’s Big Event
Explore Wine Peeps (May 2 2012)
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To kick off Oregon Wine Month, the Oregon Wine Board hosted a large-scale tasting event in Portland called Unwine’d, Celebrate Oregon Wine on Sunday. The concept was similar to Seattle’s annual Taste Washington event. The inaugural event featured 100 wineries pouring their wines and 14 restaurants serving small bites. With approximately 450 wineries now open [...] Unwine’d 2012: Highlights from Oregon Wine’s Big Event was originally posted on Wine Peeps. Wine Peeps - Your link to great QPR wines from Washington State and beyond.
UnWine'd Rewind: Celebrate Oregon Wine Indeed!
Explore nwwineanthem.com (May 2 2012)
This past Sunday, the Oregon Wine Board hosted UnWine’d: Celebrate Oregon Wine inPortland’s industrial-chic Left Bank Annex. The elaborate tasting featured 80+wineries throughout the Oregon AVAs, and a heaping handful of restaurantvendors, delicious accoutrements in-tow. This grand tasting served as thekickoff event for Oregon Wine Month, which continues through the month of Mayand culminates in the ever-popular Memorial Day weekend wine country open house.mini sliders & pasta {a la Davis Street Tavern}With my free time rarely being spent outside of theimmediate Portland area, I am ecstatic when wine country comes to me. Tastingbook and floorplan in-hand, I was determined to explore and branch out ratherthan catching up with my known favorites. At these large-scale, free-for-alltasting events, I haven’t quite come up with a system. Sometimes I ask for recommendationsfrom other pourers or, a self-diagnosed font snob, I’ll often wander until alabel or logo catches my eye (gasp! but I swear, it’s a thing). In this case, I was reading through my list and came across aninteresting name: Kandarian. Admittedly I did a double-take with the subsequentwhoa, the Kardashians makewine? That would be a.w.k.w.a.r.d. Regardless, the thought amused me and Istrolled over to the Kandarian table. To my surprise and extreme delight: jackpot. Jeff Kandarian has been the winemaker for King Estate since2008 in addition to producing his own wine under the label, Kandarian WineCellars. Make no mistake – though the site is still in the works, Jeff and thewines he has created thus far are legit; everybottle of the five being poured was adventurous and memorable. The 2010 BlueEye Sauvignon Blanc drew me in with an incredibly bright peachy fruit on thenose and a slight effervescence on ...
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UnWine'd Unfolds with Success
Explore southernoregonwineblog.com (May 2 2012)
(Read Full Article)Oregon showed its might Sunday with 100 producers coming together to proudly kick off May's Oregon Wine Month with the inaugural UnWine'd event. It has been decades since the Oregon Wine Board has sponsored a collective tasting and with over 800 attendees, I'd say it was a massive success. Not only was the two-story Left Bank Annex full of wine enthusiasts, it was also full of excitement for the quality and creativity coming from our state. The response for Southern Oregon wines was overwhelming popular. I manned the Southern Oregon Winery Association table for an hour and ...
Silver sparkles for Argyle
Explore NewsRegister.com (Apr 18 2012)
News-Regsiter's Karl Klooster writes about Argyle, premier sparkling wine producer celebrates quarter century of cuvées.
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A New Generation of Winemaking: A Father’s Tale
Explore Oregon Wine Country Inn & Vineyards (Mar 19 2012)
Winemaker, Wayne, and his 12-year-old daughter, Natasha, each wrote about their own experiences as farmers and winemakers. Below is Wayne’s version… When we began this journey of growing grapes at Youngberg Hill in Oregon, we did so with the vision of keeping the vineyard in the family for decades. In fact, when discussing our move [...]
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A New Generation of Winemaking: A Daughter’s Tale
Explore Oregon Wine Country Inn & Vineyards (Mar 18 2012)
Winemaker, Wayne, and his 12-year-old daughter, Natasha, each wrote about their own experiences as farmers and winemakers. Below is Natasha’s version… A lot of people love a certain thing about their job. For me it’s blending wines. In my opinion blending wines is not about checking the sugar levels or the ounces of alcohol it [...]
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Small wineries win over wine fan
Winemaker Brad McLeroy poses in front of barrels at Ayres Vineyard & Winery in Newberg, Ore., in July 2011. To go with Steve Timko's Oregon wine travel story. Photo by Steve Timko/Reno Gazette-Journal.
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Hot Diggity Dobbes
Explore Oregon Wine Press (Mar 1 2012)
Wine Business Monthly recently awarded Joe Dobbes’ Wine by Joe the title of “No. 1 Hot Small Brand of 2011.”The prestigious award comes merely months after Dobbes secured major backing from Bacchus Capital Management, providing significant resources for new equipment and national and international marketing efforts.Wine Business Monthly Editor Cyril Penn says, “Joe has been ...
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