Ariel Eberle is well into her second decade making wine for the Burger family, and her touch with rosé from their 150-acre vineyard has been decorated along the way. She focuses the rosé on Dijon clone 115 fruit from two distinct blocks established in 2000 -...
The Specters first planted their vineyard above Newberg, Ore., in 2014, and this blend of Pommard and Dijon clone 667 (two barrels of each) in Jory soil is from those vines that are coming into their own. In fact, these lots, picked on Oct. 3, 2020 at 25 Brix,...
Bill and Sandy Sanchez own and operate The Potter's Vineyard and Vino Vasai Wines near Newberg, Ore. Great Northwest Wine selected their project as the 2022 Oregon Winery to Watch. (Richard Duval Images) NEWBERG, Ore. — After spending decades traveling for work,...
Andrew Riechers received international acclaim last summer from judges in London. (Photo courtesy of Audeant Wines) SALEM, Ore. — When you start a wine brand to build something that will span generations and sustain a community rather than building something to...
The Burger family, who founded in 1983 what's now the oldest winery in Oregon's McMinnville American Viticultural Area, and homegrown winemaker Ariel Eberle continue to release wines worthy of acclaim in the wake of being named 2019 Oregon Winery of the Year. Their...
This week, Southern Oregon University in Ashland released a combined 2011 winery and vineyard report. Digging into the numbers reveals some interesting finds. For example: While Oregon increased its number of wineries from 419 to 463, the growth was everywhere...
