Wine

{I wrote this piece for Tyee's new "What Works" column.} Maggie Harrison would often stop at her fenceline in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, fantasizing about buying a few acres of property next door. A winemaker originally from California, Harrison purchased a 40-acre hillside property outside Salem, Oregon, that eventually became Antica Terra, a winery that today sells 36,000 bottles per year and has fans in LeBron James and Pink . From the beginning, she farmed the land orga

Dozens of Oregon wineries are bottling their wines in Revino’s signature glass containers, which can be used up to 50 times. I wrote this...

My story on the Columbia Gorge's buzzing wine scene is in the July/Aug. issue of Condé Nast Traveler . Magazine space being what it is...

If you’re concerned about the climate crisis and you drink wine, there are some things you need to know. Curl up with a glass and read...

Oregon's glass bottle recycling rates may be some of the highest in the nation, but with the state's only glass recycling plant...

A story about the emerging diversity of the Willamette Valley wine scene

In case you hadn’t noticed, cider is having a moment. The lightly alcoholic beverage has popped up on restaurant menus in recent years....

At Hiyu Wine Farm in Hood River, Oregon, a commitment to permaculture yields wild and complex field blends and a well-set winemaker's table.  My piece on Hiyu is in the April issue of Food & Wine, with absolutely stunning photographs by Eva Kolenko.  The farmhouse and hilly vineyards at Hiyu Wine Farm in Hood River, Oregon. PHOTO: EVA KOLENKO The first time I met winemaker Nate Ready, he was pouring his wines at Pairings wine bar in Portland, Oregon. With his long salt-and-p

My guide on the best places to taste wine, eat, and stay in Oregon's Willamette Valley was published alongside Ray Isle's picks on which...

For Bon Appetit 's May issue, I wrote about a new continuing education program for Latinx vineyard workers in Oregon's Willamette...

I wrote this Top Chef guide to Portland for Food & Wine back in June. In Season 18 of  Top Chef , the culinary reality competition...

I wrote this story about one of my favorite Oregon wineries, Big Table Farm, for Food & Wine's October 2020 issue. With the wildfires still raging in Oregon right now, we here at Food & Wine debated whether it was really the right time to run a story (which appears in our October print issue) about a happy communal dinner in the middle of Oregon wine country. So we reached out to Clare Carver, who owns and runs Big Table Farm together with her husband Brian, for her take on t

This story ran on SevenFifty Daily on Sept. 21st, 2020.  Kelsey Glasser, owner and sommelier of Arden Wine Bar in Portland, Oregon ...

Populated by seasonal laborers, Oregon’s Willamette Valley could have been devastated by the coronavirus. Instead, it’s become a model...

I wrote this in May for British wine magazine Club Oenologique . Back in early February, before the coronavirus pandemic had shuttered...

From tiny boîtes and chic restaurants to all-day cafés and well-stocked shops - the best wine bars in Portland, Oregon A decade ago, you could count the number of wine bars in Portland , Oregon on one hand, but over the past few years there’s been a flurry of openings, from tiny boîtes with simple fare to those that blur the line between wine  bar and wine-driven restaurant. Here are a selection of our favourite places to eat and drink in Portland. The new wave of Portland wi

The sun-filled dining room at Dóttir (Photo by Mikael Lundblad) These days, it seems like a new hotel opens in Portland every week. I...

Winemaker Barnaby Tuttle tells Club Oenologique about his most radical experiments, his mentors (he calls them the Mosel Mafia), and how psychedelic jazz energises his winemaking [ This interview was published in Club Oenologique in August 2019.] Drop into Barnaby Tuttle’s southeast Portland winery , and chances are he’ll be tending bar wearing a baseball cap and rocking out to Miles Davis’s psychedelic Bitches Brew . Tuttle, who runs  Teutonic Wine Company  with his wife Olg

I live just an hour from the glorious Columbia Gorge, and whenever I go there to hike or taste wine, I take mental notes of all the new...

Cathy Whims has been resurrecting the classic Italian Maialata celebration in the Willamette Valley for the past 7 years. I wrote about...