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Shape Magazine September 2007
"This is the time for a wine country escape."[read full article]
Memorial Day 2007 5/24/07
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Wine Press Northwest: Cathedral Ridge Winery Named Oregon Winery of the Year Spring 2007
Our Oregon Winery of the Year has been around for years. Yet for most wine lovers-and its owner-it might as well be brand new. [read full article]
Oregon Wine Press: What's New in the Columbia Gorge 7/1/06
The quickest way to answer this question is “what’s not new?” The Columbia Gorge wine industry has grown by leaps and bounds in the past decade; however, few know that settlers planted its first vines over a century ago ...[read full article]
Memorial
Day 2006 5/24/06
Wheat Ranchers Branch Out: Wheatridge Vineyard 10/24/05
PHILIPPI CANYON - Unlike vineyards and wineries along busy highways that beckon travelers as they drive by, visitors must go out of their way to find Larry and Laurie Bartlemay's place. [read full article]
Gorge Wine Celebration Tickets: On Sale Now 7/18/05
Taste. Experience a world of wine. Celebrate with us.
This August 7th, from 1-6pm, the Hood River County Fairgrounds will be
abuzz with Gorge wineries, pouring new releases & old favorites. Tickets
can be purchased at local Gorge tasting rooms, Klindt’s Books in
The Dalles, Dickey Farms in Bingen and Waucoma Books in Hood River or
by calling the Columbia Gorge Winegrowers at 1.866.413.WINE. $25 in advance
and $30 at the door. [read
full article]
Gorge
Artists to show at Gorge Wine Celebration 6/25/05
The 2nd annual Gorge Wine Celebration will be a buzz of more
than a dozen wineries, signature wineglasses, scrumptious appetizers and…local
artists! [read
full article]
Columbia
Gorge Winegrowers Accepting Applications 5/21/05
Looking for a job in the emerging Gorge wine industry? The Columbia Gorge
Winegrowers is happy to announce that it is looking to contract for a
parttime Marketing Coordinator, starting August 29th, 2005. [read
full article]
Kick
off Summer with Gorge Wines: May 28th-30th 5/21/05
Grand Openings, Pre-Openings, New Releases, Pig Roasts, Anniversaries
and lots and lots of Gorge Wines! Explore Gorge wines this Memorial Day
weekend and let us help you kick off your summer.[read
full article]
Serving
Gorge wine? Serve it even better! 4/14/05
Columbia Gorge Winegrowers offer FREE Gorge Wine Server Education
The Columbia Gorge Winegrowers will be offering a free, two hour, Gorge
wine server education class for local restaurants, caterers and wine servers
Monday, April 25th. There will be two sessions of the training: 9-11am
and 2-4pm hosted by the Columbia Gorge Hotel. The sessions will be free
and open to all local restaurant servers. [read
full article]
Wine
Card Wild! Winners Announced 4/7/05
After a weekend of visiting Gorge Wineries, Steve & Cindy
Jones of Portland are this year’s Grand Prize winner of Wine Card
Wild! [read
full article]
Gorge
Wineries Sweep at Portland Spring Beer & Wine Festival 3/31/05
Three local wineries, all members of the Columbia Gorge Winegrowers
Association, brought home several awards from the Portland Spring Beer
and Wine Festival held March 25th and 26th at the Portland Convention
Center. [read
full article]
Wine
Card Wild! weekend: April 2nd & 3rd 3/18/05
Kick off your Spring with the Columbia Gorge’s newest
wine-tasting event: Wine Card Wild! Eleven wineries throughout the Gorge
are participating in this fun event April 2nd & 3rd.[read
full article]
Oregon
Wine Board: Gorge-style 3/7/05
More marketing, more tourism, more sales of Oregon wine. These
themes reverberated through the crowd of about thirty people at Cathedral
Ridge Winery on Monday. Ted Farthing, executive director of the Oregon
Wine Board, outlined the Board’s five year strategic plan for Oregon
wine to locals interested in the wine industry, emphasizing a renewed
focus on marketing. [read
full article]
Warm
up with a Glass: February at Gorge Wineries 1/21/05
It’s grey and cold, it’s Valentine’s Day,
it’s the long President’s Day weekend. Gorge wineries have
new releases and Valentine’s celebrations to fill both your glass
and your appetite for a good time! [read
full article]
Start
Seeing it: Winegrowers announce Logo Contest winner 1/8/05
It is simple, graphically depicts the Columbia River, include
grapes and is pleasing to the eyes. The Columbia Gorge Winegrowers Association
is happy to announce the selection of the Association logo. [read
full article]
Thanksgiving
a success for Gorge Wineries 12/10/04
From three local wineries pouring in Hood River, to live music
adding to life in local tasting rooms, to the annual Swine and wine, Thanksgiving
weekend was a great success for local wineries. Wineries had many local
visitors as well as wine tasters who wanted a change from the usual weekend
of tasting in the Willamette Valley. [read
full article]
Winegrowers
Honor AVA Proponent 12/9/04
At their November 19th membership meeting in Lyle, the Columbia
Gorge Winegrowers honored Mark Wharry for his tireless work in completing
the application to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau for the
Columbia Gorge American Viticulture Area (AVA). [read
full article]
A
world of wine in 40 miles: Thanksgiving in the Gorge
11/10/04
Looking for something to do this Thanksgiving, post-turkey, post-pumpkin
pie, in the midst of family and visitors? The Columbia Gorge Winegrowers
has just the thing for you and your loved ones—tour the wines of
the Gorge. All wineries will be open 11-6pm this weekend. [read
full article]
Winegrowers
kick off logo design contest 10/21/04
Calling all local artists: Sharpen your pencils, get
out the design software or focus your camera lenses. Would like to see
your work all over wine promotions throughout the Gorge and the Northwest?
Here’s your chance! The Columbia Gorge Wine Growers Association
is looking for a logo to promote Columbia Gorge Wines. [read
full article]
Winegrowers
open for business 10/20/04
Need information about local wineries? Have a question
about vineyards in the area? We’re open! The Columbia Gorge Winegrowers
Association has hired a parttime staff person as of October 1st. [read
full article]
Gorge
Wine Celebration set for August 8th 7/22/04
The first ever Gorge Wine Celebration will be held Sunday,
August 8th in Hood River. Sponsored by the Columbia Gorge Winegrowers
Association (CGWA), this event promises to be a spectacular chance for
wine and food-lovers to savor the taste of the Gorge. [read
full article]
Official Columbia
Gorge Appellation Approved 7/9/04 |