Oregon Wine Country Memorial Weekend

Memorial Weekend in Oregon Wine Country is one of the best weekends of the year to visit wineries that only open twice a year, as well as taste the latest wines in bottle and barrel, meet the winemakers and so much more. ••• Taste & Tweet: As you go from tasting room to tasting room during this year's Memorial Weekend in Oregon Wine Country, OWP would love to hear from you on Twitter. We want to know where you are, what you’re tasting and any juicy tidbits you’d like to share. Add #OrWineMemWkd12 to the end of your Tweet, and let's get the conversation flowing. 


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Wine-Minded Ales

The relationship between brewing and winemaking has always been an especially flirtatious one thanks to shared processes, equipment, additions and locations. ••• Yet, now more than ever, local beer is being treated more and more like fine wine in every facet. Brewers are walking hop rows pre-harvest like a winemaker studies his fruit just before crush. They’re including old Pinot Noir barrels in their oaking regiments and are staunch supporters of sustainability and seasonality. ••• They’re playing with new yeast strains and bottle-conditioning ales, so they can evolve for years to come. 


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David Logsdon stands in front of his barn, which he turned into a brewery. Logsdon’s farm is near Hood River in the Columbia Gorge.

Thirsty Pastime

Toss away that thought of building an expensive wine cellar to age and protect your precious vintages. Eric Weisinger has a better idea. He buries bottles in the ground. One at a time. And thousands of miles apart. ••• Weisinger spends half the year in the Rogue Valley and the other half in New Zealand, making wine and serving as a consultant to grape growers. In between, he creates his own wine and stashes cases of it in his Ashland home, the crawl space under a friend’s house and, for a few dozen special vintages, in the woods, on an island, in various countries, on different continents. 



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Weisinger’s of Ashland Winemaker Eric Weisinger recently dug up a bottle of his family’s 2002 Petite Pompadour. He buried it in March 2006 on a hill above his family’s Ashland vineyard.





Going on a Wine Hunt
Memorial Weekend offers visitors chance to taste treasures Read Her Editor's Note