My winemaking ambition never waned, from playing in friends' vineyards and wineries, picking fruit at harvest to working for the Ponzi family at 14 years old, working for Rob and Maria Stuart (at Erath at the time) through high school, to applying for a winery job in...

Queer Wine Fest V: How We Went Out on Top Queer Wine Fest the Fifth Edition, was by every measure, the best one yet. The sun was shining, despite threats of rain, the curated wine selection ensured every producer sold something, the outdoor art gallery put local...

Hurray for PRIDE!  Pride month is one of the most joyous, exhausting (lol) and personally gratifying months of the year.  This year it feels more important than others in recent history as many in the queer community are having rights and humanity stripped away by the...

Ciao Friends, May is Oregon Wine Month - a celebration of an industry that has built itself in just a handful of decades! I write about a lot of things in these newsletters and this month seemed like the right time to talk a bit more about…the wine! We’re beginning...

Happy Earth Month, Y’all! I’d like to share a quote I’ve had scrawled across my office wall for years “We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Aristotle It’s there to remind me, as I look at my to-do lists and projects, that the...