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...

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

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