Explore Oregon Wine Country. The following outdoor delights were recommended by some of the Willamette Valley’s best winemakers, whom you can be sure have excellent taste.
Category: Willamette Valley
AHIVOY Vineyard Steward Education
AHIVOY is a non-profit dedicated to education and empowerment for Hispanic and Latinx vineyard stewards.
Rabbit Run: Coelho Winery
Coelho Winery is a family-owned and operated outfit in the tiny town of Amity, in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Coelho – which means ‘rabbit’ in Portuguese – draws on the family’s Portuguese heritage to make exceptional, unique wines.
The New Old School: Illahe Vineyards
Typewriters are by no means rare in Oregon. The Smith-Corona in the Illahe Vineyards office is not, however, a hipster accessory. Nor is the chalkboard where someone has scrawled: “Buy more chalk”. Or the phonograph and four-foot high wooden speakers bookending crates of classic rock LPs in the corner of the warehouse.
Where Wine and School Lunch Collide
Maybe the challenge of marketing fine wine to under-40s in the United States is rooted in what they ate as kids.
Left Coast Estate Then and Now
With its woods, bees, flowers, ponds, grasslands and vineyards, the estate would be a bucolic fantasy, if it weren’t real. The adjacent farm Left Coast bought weaves another thread into the tapestry: “It’s one of the original Oregon Trail properties,” Pfaff says.
Adelsheim: Then and Now
David’s scalpel-like curiosity can be unnerving. He has a compulsion to understand how things (and people) work that I’d call ‘childlike’ if it weren’t driven by an imposing, precision-tooled intellect.
A Journey into Oregon Wine
A peek into the origins of Oregon Wine Pioneers, as told by author Cila Warncke. Driving through Willamette Valley wine… Read more A Journey into Oregon Wine
Adrian Chitty Artist in Residence
Adrian Chitty spent over a year at A to Z Wineworks as an artist-in-residence… a personal transformation as radical as the journey from blossom to bottle.
Connections: Landlines Estates
We have tasted a lot of wine together over the years, often hopping into a car on a Saturday afternoon to head to some fairy-dust sprinkled corner of the Willamette Valley to drink bliss-inducing Pinot Noirs and hedgehog-spiky Pinot Gris. This time, my husband and I were in our living room…
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