PORTLAND’S TOP CHEFS DEMONSTRATE HOW TO PAIR ANY CUISINE WITH SAKE AT THE 3rd ANNUAL SAKE FEST PDX   BENEFITTING THE JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF OREGON (JASO)   Thursday, June 27, 6:30 to 9 PM at The Governor Hotel   PORTLAND, Ore. – May 21, 2013 – Nearly 40 Portland chefs and International sake producers [...] Read more »

Upcoming Events and Tastings at Liner & Elsen – 2222 NW Quimby St., Portland ***** Friday Tastings: Great tastings held on the first and third Fridays of each month. We serve a “flight” of five wines and usually a super-pour (extra $ and optional). Informal and fun. Served from 5:30 to 7:30. Fee. June 7  [...] Read more »

A state-of-the-art tasting room opens June 15 at the Willamette Valley-based winery Sherwood, OR, May 20th, 2013 – Ponzi Vineyards, one of Oregon’s oldest wineries, opens a new, modern tasting room in Sherwood on June 15th. Located at 19500 SW Mountain Home Road, the tasting room will provide guests with innovative wine tasting experiences through [...] Read more »

Join us for a special Champagne event (our largest one ever!) adapted from what has become the most iconic Champagne tasting in France! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. THE LINE UP FOR TERRES ET VINS DE CHAMPAGNE… À PORTLAND OUR BIGGEST CHAMPAGNE TASTING EVER! Terres et Vins, conceived by [...] Read more »

Friday: 2011 Willamette Valley Pinot Noirs ~and~ Saturday: Great Italian Finds 2011 Willamette Valley Oregon Pinot Noir  Friday, May 17, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. No reservations. Fee applies.   Flight of Five $18 Les Cousins (Beaux Freres) Horsetail (Etzel Brothers), Willamette Valley Evesham Wood, La Grive Bleue, Eola Amity Hills Brick House, “Les Dijonnais”, Ribbon [...] Read more »

This week, a focus on Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea situated at the toe of Italy’s boot. This long lost cousin of Italy is actually closer to Africa, and has a rich and unique culture, including century old wine making of esoteric, yet delicious, wines. Come pick a bottle to pair with [...] Read more »

SakéOne Launches g fifty, the Newest Addition to the g Saké Line Forest Grove, OR, May 16, 2013 – SakéOne, America’s leading producer of premium saké, has released the newest product in the American-produced g saké line, g fifty, which joins its sister product, g joy. g fifty is part of the rising trend of fine [...] Read more »

Thursday Tasting – Import Rosés   We know we just poured a selection of Oregon rosés for you a few weeks ago, and we are fired up to host another rosé themed tasting. To be honest, we will be hosting a number of them throughout the summer. As of now only a smattering of 2012 [...] Read more »

Just when you thought a week might go by without a tasting at the shop, we’ve pulled together a couple of impromptu pourings for tonight and next Wednesday. Consider this your mid-week excuse to cut out of work early and drop by the shop for a sip of something new. Here’s what we have lined [...] Read more »

Join us for a special Champagne event (our largest one ever!) adapted from what has become the most iconic Champagne tasting in France! Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. TERRES ET VINS DE CHAMPAGNE… À PORTLAND OUR BIGGEST CHAMPAGNE TASTING EVER! On Monday, April 22, twenty-one of Champagne’s finest grower-producers [...] Read more »

Make the most of warm summer evenings by sipping Durant Vineyards wines while listening to local artists perform on the tasting room patio   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Durant Vineyards at Red Ridge Farms is excited to host an early evening summer live music series on their tasting room patio from 4-7 p.m. on select Fridays [...] Read more »

Walnut City Wineworks is a custom crush wine production facility that was started in 1999 by grape growers John Davidson and John Gilpin. They repurposed the original Willamette Valley Walnut Co. building, in historic downtown McMinnville, Oregon – once nicknamed “Walnut City” – and provided their vineyard customers a home to come together and bring [...] Read more »