What harvest season is really like in the Willamette Valley — when it happens, what to expect, and how to visit wineries during the busiest, most alive time of year.
How to plan a Willamette Valley wine tour that turns an anniversary, proposal, or milestone into a day worth remembering.
How to organize a seamless group or corporate wine tour in the Willamette Valley — for teams, celebrations, and larger parties.
The Willamette Valley’s youngest appellation — shallow Bellpine soils, marine air through a Coast Range gap, and structured southern-valley Pinot.
A transparent look at what a private Willamette Valley wine tour includes — the driver, the tastings, the fees, and what it costs.
The Willamette Valley’s northern frontier — the largest concentration of Laurelwood soil in Oregon, and some of the state’s oldest vines.
Why three wineries is the sweet spot for a Willamette Valley tasting day — and how to plan an unhurried, memorable one.
The Willamette Valley began as an oceanic lava plateau that slammed into North America 50 million years ago. How Siletzia’s accreted sea floor, the Coast Range, the Columbia River basalts, and the Ice-Age Missoula Floods built Oregon wine country — and its three great soils.
Bacchus began as Bakchos, a Greek title for Dionysus — not a Roman invention. From Bronze Age clay tablets to Anacreon’s drinking songs, Euripides’ Bacchae, a Roman Senate crackdown, and Keats, the three-thousand-year story of the wine god’s names.
Inside Oregon’s McMinnville AVA: Nestucca bedrock, Van Duzer winds, and the structured Coast Range Pinot Noir they produce — plus how to visit.
The truth about Henry VIII’s gout, his table, and the wines of Tudor England — beyond the myths.
A 1,700-year-old sealed Roman bottle in a German museum — and the 2024 discovery in Spain that just rewrote the record.
You have seen the numbers on shelf-talkers and back labels: “94 points,” “98 points.” They come from a system one critic invented in 1978 —
Bacchus began as Bakchos, a Greek title for Dionysus — not a Roman invention. From Bronze Age clay tablets to Anacreon’s drinking songs, Euripides’ Bacchae, a Roman Senate crackdown, and Keats, the three-thousand-year story of the wine god’s names.