Category Archives: WINERIES WANDERED

No wine lives in a vacuum. Wineries create more than a beverage but dress it with identity, goals and a whole lot of gibberish. Follow me to their fabricated homes.

Okanagan Winery Visit: Quail’s Gate Dry Riesling Wine Tasting

Posted on November 23, 2020 by waywardwine

Watch me in all my splendor tour you through the Okanagan’s landmark winery, Quail’s Gate, and taste their electric dry Riesling:

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Wine Review: Torii Mor Pinot Noir Olson Estate Vineyard Dundee Hills 2014

Posted on October 12, 2020 by waywardwine

Another day, another bottle to check out. I tumble into my “cellar” (aka crawl space) and pull out a fine-dusted bottle of single vineyard Pinot Noir from 2014. If this virus gets me, at least I enjoyed one more wine … Continue reading →

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MULTIPLYING SUSTAINABILITY: DAY WINES AND DAY CAMP COOPERATIVE

Posted on October 2, 2020 by waywardwine

JancisRobinson.com recently finished their summer 2020 Wine Writing Competition (WWC20) and published 75 entries on Sustainability Heroes in the wine industry. I was honored to have all three of my submissions published. Although, I did not win the final, the below article on Day Wines and Day Camp Cooperative made it. Continue reading →

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Illahe Vineyards’ “1899” Pinot Noir: Making And Moving Wine Without Modernity

Posted on October 1, 2020 by waywardwine

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Hiyu Wine Farm: Oregon’s Sustainable Utopia in the Columbia Gorge

Posted on September 25, 2020 by waywardwine

JancisRobinson.com recently finished their summer 2020 Wine Writing Competition (WWC20) and published 75 entries on Sustainability Heroes in the wine industry. I was honored to have all three of my submissions published. Although, I did not win the final, one made it onto the shortlist. For your re-reading pleasure, I will re-publish each over the following days.

If sustainability needs mascots, Nate Ready and China Tresemer would fit perfectly. In floppy hats, with Nate’s druidical beard and China’s proud grin, they grow the most complete whole farm vineyard on Oregon’s northern fringe: the Columbia Gorge. Their minimal approach at Hiyu Wine Farm makes Biodynamics look conventional. Here, native plants grow higher than vines, animals seem to do more work than people, and you almost forget this is viticulture. Nate admits that they are “trying to nudge the system as close as possible to a wild system, and it isn’t a wild system, but we try to make agriculture look a little more like nature”.[1]Any visit confirms this. Continue reading →