Oregon Wine

Naked Winery

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Join Naked Winery at the Seaside Downtown Business Development Association on May 15th for the very popular wine walk. Wineries will be offering tastings in local downtown business as well as appetizers. Another chance to get naked at the beach. Wine tasting begins at 3:00pm. Join every day at their tasting room Hood River. Hours: … Read more

Volcano Vineyards

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Volcano Vineyards is a Micro-Winery producing about 1000 cases per year.  Their Tasting Room is a located in Bend, a Central Oregon city.  The founders are two former waiters with a love for wine and a great story of how they started i the wine business found here.

What is a Micro-Winery?

We are very small – hence the “micro” – it’s along the lines of a micro-brewery. A “small” winery is considered to be one that produced less than 50,000 cases per year. For our first commercial vintage release (2003), production was a mere 250 cases. And we are now up to a whopping 1000 cases annually!

Awards:
Double Gold Medal – 2009 National Women’s Wine Competition
Double Gold Medal – Wine Press Northwest 2008 Platinum Judging
Gold Medal – 2008 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Silver Medal – 2008 World of Wine Competition

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Purple Cow – Muscat 2009

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Purple Cow Vineyards has just released their 2009 Muscat which took a slight deviation from their traditionally bone dry food-friendly offering.  The 2009 vintage took advantage of the high sugar at harvest to stop fermentation with 1% residual sugar.  It’s not enough to cloy on the palate, but it does modify the nose to accentuate … Read more

Urban Decanter

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Urban Decanter Wine Collection & Bar is a gorgeous spot in Forest Grove with the just the right touch of ambiance.  It mixes a relaxing wine bar feel in the back with a tasteful wine store in front.  They have a fantastic wine selection, including Oregon wines of course, all beautifully displayed displayed on dark … Read more

RoxyAnn Winery

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RoxyAnn proudly announced that they are members in the Low Input Viticulture and Enology (LIVE) organization. Members of LIVE have goals and practices include creating and maintaining quality fruit production by using sustainable agriculture practices. As wine grape growers, they are concerned about making a valuable product, while at the same time promoting the quality … Read more

What’s The Wine?

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If you know this brand this might me too easy so let’s see how good you guys are.  Reply in the comments with your guesses. Well done, it took about 2 seconds for the answer to come in. Willamette Valley Vineyards. Image #2 Here is my second scrambled image. This one is just the label. … Read more

Erath Winery

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Earth Winery: As one of Oregon’s wine pioneers, Dick Erath had always been as tenacious in his approach to Pinot as the Pinot grape is stubborn. The engineer-turned-viticulturist was first inspired to pursue winemaking in 1965 after an early garage experiment. After completing coursework at UC-Davis in 1968, Erath relocated his family from California to … Read more

Spangler Vineyards

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Spangler Vineyard’s 2007 Cabernet Franc took a Double-Gold Medal at the 2009 Finger Lakes International Wine Competition! In 2004 The Spangler Family moved to Southern Oregon’s Umpqua Valley, purchasing an established winery and vineyards. Old vine Cabernet Sauvignon, planted 1968-1971, is own-rooted and dry-farmed. All visitors park at the vineyard’s edge, enjoying the view of these old, … Read more

Sokol Blosser – Evolution, Lucky Edition

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It was hard to pick the first wine to kick off the official launch of Pouregon but while talking to Allison, mine, not Allison of Sokol Blosser, she reminded me that Sokol Blosser produced her favorite wines.  Over the years Sokol Blosser is the name that I hear many friends talk about.  Picking Sokol Blosser … Read more