Wine

I got to profile Bertony Faustin , a fantastic winemaker here in Oregon, for the Makers issue of Food & Wine . See below for the full...

By now, the wine-drinking public is familiar with sustainability descriptors like  organic , biodynamic ,  and even  natural . They’ve...

In my third visit on the Four Top, I joined Rebecca Hopkins and Cathy Huyghe for a discussion about mental health in the wine industry, what we do to stay balanced and healthy, and why we need to discuss mental health more openly. Listen to Episode 51: Rebecca Hopkins, Cathy Huyghe, and Hannah Wallace  on iTunes. In the studio at OPB with Beck Hopkins (left), host Katherine Cole (right of me) and Cathy Huyghe (right)

This story appeared on SevenFifty Daily on July 25.   The 2017 Eagle Creek fire is seared into Oregon winemaker Michael Garofola’s...

I was on Katherine Cole's the Four Top again—a marvelous podcast about hot-button topics in food and drink. You can listen to our wide-ranging discussion about climate change and wine, the wildfires (and wine), and why rosé should also be enjoyed in the winter, below.  The other guests were climatologist Dr. Greg Jones, writer Jordan Michelman from Sprudge, and Katherine herself.  Listen to "Ep. 45: Dr. Greg Jones | Hannah Wallace | Jordan Michelman" on iTunes. In true Por

I did a Q&A with the director of Linfield College’s pioneering Oregon Wine History Archive for SevenFifty Daily.  In SevenFifty Daily's ...

Every so often an assignment comes along that takes you out of your typical beat, making you so honored to be a journalist because it...

This story was published on SevenFifty Daily last week. From grower Champagnes to Oregon producers, niche interests are fueling...

I wrote about mead for the April issue of Food & Wine.  I'd always thought of mead, the ancient alcoholic beverage made from fermented...

The news anchor encourages women in the wine and spirits industry to speak up and demand action When Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson...

I attended the Oregon Wine Symposium last week here in Portland and reported back for SevenFifty Daily .  At the 2018 Oregon Wine...

Maggie Harrison on her unconventional path to becoming a winemaker and her dedication to a difficult grape. ( This story was originally...

{Note: this story was written before both Mario Batali and Andrew Friedman were accused of chronic sexual harassment and assault by...

This story was published on NBC's Better on Nov. 17th.  Bartending might seem like a fun, carefree job — how stressful could it be to...

Paid maternity leave is still a rarity, but some forward-thinking companies are setting the bar {This story was published by SevenFifty...

When consumers hear the term private-label wines, they may envision Trader Joe’s Two-Buck Chuck or Costco’s Kirkland Signature brand,...

I wrote this piece about alcoholism in the wine, beer, and spirits industry for a new wine industry publication called SevenFifty Daily....

A few weeks ago, wine writer  Katherine Cole  invited me to be a panelist on her new podcast, the Four Top. On the podcast, which just won a James Beard media award, Katherine and three other food-world insiders (usually members of the media) talk about hot-button topics in the food and beverage culture. For this episode , Peter Platt of Andina restaurant, OPB reporter Roxy de La Torre, and I discussed Sanctuary Restaurants, undocumented immigrants in the restaurant industry,

I'm pretty excited about my first story in Food & Wine , about Dana Frank's beguiling new natural-wine-focused restaurant, Dame.  Reporting this meant I got to know the Oregon winemakers who are on the menu at Dame, as well as their wines. Five of the winemakers were at the dinner: Kelley Fox (of Kelley Fox Wines), Dan Rinke (Johan), Chad Stocks (Minimus and Omero), Steven Thompson (Analemma), and Scott Frank (Bow & Arrow), Dana's husband.   Frank pouring wine from a banquett

Is natural wine a fad or the next big thing in sustainable viticulture?  I wrote about Oregon's place in the natural wine movement for...