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LISKA Wine

Liska Wine Co is an itty-bitty family winery in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, with a focused intent on highlighting the region’s compelling, yet under-represented, wine grape varieties. Since their inaugural 2021 vintage, Liska has crafted single-varietal wines of Gruner Veltliner, Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Gamay Noir and Syrah, all from the Eola-Amity Hills and with original artwork to match their respective wines. Their goal is to continue to showcase these expressive varieties, while expanding their exploration of the Willamette Valley’s varietal outliers.

ALUMBRA Cellars

Alumbra is the Spanish word for shining light. Alumbra’s story is one of family, hard work, culture, and new beginnings. It’s a story of our father who left his native Mexico in search of a better life in Oregon. After decades of hard work and raising a family, he planted the vineyard in 2005. Elena took over the vineyard in 2014 and has since created Alumbra, a company dedicated to sustainable farming, a brand that celebrates the Latino culture of the family and farm workers who embody the soul of Alumbra. When you drink Alumbra, you become part of the story, a story of American-immigration and success that resulted in a dedication to hard work, culture, family and faith.

SATYR FIRE

Satyr Fire is crafted for the curious drinker who seeks complex, elegant wines; they are for the adventurer who’s always eager to embark on a journey; they are for the storyteller who wishes to blur the line between reality and myth. Every wine, born from wild fermentation, tells a small portion of their story. Each bottle is a sentence, each barrel is a paragraph, and each vintage is a chapter of the unfolding tale.

PIKE ROAD Wines

At Pike Road, we believe great winemaking starts with great farming. With over four decades of experience at Pike Road’s sister winery Elk Cove Vineyards, our family has a long history here in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. We are committed to preserving family farms through our longtime partnerships with growers from around the valley.

LERZI Wine

Lerzi is an ode to a matriarch, our Nonna, Giuseppina Lerzi. A project grown from generations of hard work, practice and diligence, we turn now towards a more playful process. Our experimental approach joins thoughtful farming and traditional methods to make wines that bridge the gap; between mother and daughter, winemaker and chef, new and known, classic and fun. We make small lots of wines that are equal parts experiment and celebration, wines for drinking with food, with friends and with intention. Lerzi is our meeting place. It’s a representation of the place we call home, the land we are tied to through work and love, and our desire to make wines we are delighted to drink and excited to share. We farm our own vineyards using LIVE certified sustainable methods and no till, with low intervention in the cellar, guiding our wines with a gentle hand. It’s simple, as Nonna said: it’s just wine, drink it!

Elk Cove Vineyards

One of the founding wineries of the Willamette Valley, family-owned and operated Elk Cove Vineyards was the first vineyard in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA. Adam Campbell is a second-generation owner/winemaker and fifth-generation Oregon farmer specializing in Pinot Noir and cool-climate white wines. Elk Cove sources fruit from their six 100% estate-grown, sustainably farmed vineyard sites located across the northern Willamette Valley. Elk Cove is host to the 2024 Rising Tide Wine Fest.

APPROACHMENT WINES

We’re Jessica and Paden West, a winemaking couple that has over 20 years combined experience in the Oregon wine industry. We’ve been crafting top-tier Pinot Noir and Chardonnay for ages, but let’s face it—sometimes you’ve gotta shake things up. So, we’re adding a touch of “fun” to our serious winemaker vibes. Approachment is our excuse to unleash our creative and experimental side together as winemakers but also as partners and best friends. We are excited to make energetic, creative, thought provoking, and approachable wines in limited production.

MENDIVIA WINES

Mendivia was started by Colin and Holly Howard to celebrate our favorite Spanish cultivars from some of Oregon and Washington’s emerging AVAs. Mendivia (Men-dée-via) Wines is rooted in a love of Spanish culture, combined with mindful winemaking and appreciation of the state’s unique vineyards. Inspired by winemaker Colin Howard’s Basque lineage (his family name was originally Mendivia), the label brings together unique Spanish grape varieties with serious craftsmanship. Grapes, such as Tempranillo and Albariño, are sourced from the PNW’s warmer regions whose climates and topography are similar to those of north/ northwest Spain. The wines are compelling and energetic with the goal to always be adding something delicious and dynamic to the table. Colin brings a diverse background to his winemaking which also includes years in distilling and hospitality management, both of which inform his approach to making vibrant, food-friendly wines that capture the spirit of each vineyard.

LIMITED ADDITION WINES

Limited Addition Wine showcases the Willamette Valley’s unique and ever-changing grape diversity, while allowing our winemaker, Bree Stock MW, to explore her dedication to low-intervention winemaking. Ltd.+ wines are personal handmade wines raised from collaborations with inspired farmers to develop a diverse and sustainable wine landscape in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. These wines are made from alternative varieties through thoughtful farming and winemaking practices.

PROJECT M WINES

Inspired by the virtues of purity, precision, elegance, and transparency, we work with distinctive vineyards in Oregon’s Willamette Valley to craft distinguished Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Blanc, and Sparkling Rosé.

Our highest aspiration isn’t to live out our values or dreams. Our greatest ambition is to have our wines there when you are living yours.

PROJECT M explores the awe in life’s beautiful interconnections and rhythms, an odyssey to squeeze out the last drop of potential and make the most of every moment.

Belingar Estates

Bellingar Estates began as my vision: to make a living farming, to spend the best part of my days outside and avoid getting a “real job” at all costs, and to build a legacy for my family. That vision took me from Northwest Washington, where my family has been farmers, tradesmen, and rascals by turns, for over 100 years, to the Willamette Valley of Oregon. The first stop was for schooling (and a wife! Thanks Kim!), then to manage vineyards, and now to put down roots.Oregon Pinot noir will always evoke magic for me. From tending mossy headed vines that are older than I am, to driving tractor by moonlight at harvest, to barrel tasting in the barns and garages of friends and learning from some of the founders of the wine industry. Winegrowing in Oregon is something special. It is in this spirit that Kim and I hope to make the work of our hands the joy of your table. Enjoy with family, friends, food, or fireworks!

COPIoUS CELLARS

We’re driven by passion, not production. We craft wines that taste like a circus in a bottle, bold and imaginative, because wine should be a delightful detour from the mundane, a liquid invitation to the absurd. We concoct our potions for the dreamers and the doodlers, the folks who know that curiosity is the key to unlocking the universe’s secret giggle. Winemaking ain’t no paint-by-numbers gig, darlings. It’s a primal dance with the dirt, a sensual tango with the seasons, a love affair with the lunatics who coax magic from the vine. Each vintage is a delicious dare, a lesson in surrender, a celebration of the raw, uninhibited joy of turning grapes into something truly intoxicating. And because sharing is next to godliness (or at least, a damn good time), we fling open the cellar doors and invite you to join the bacchanal.

TIMOTHY MALONE WINES

As much as he loves wine, Tim’s first love was music. A graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he finds that many of the lessons he learned in his pursuit of music also apply to winemaking. “I was a self-taught bass player as a kid,” he says, “and then I went hard core into getting properly trained. It became very technical, but after a while, it grew kind of stale.”

Ever since then, says Tim, “I’ve been trying to return to that earlier sense of amazement, mystery and wow.” At J. Christopher, Tim maintains the wow in his winemaking by trusting his senses. “To make really good wine, you have to use your nose, to listen to the fermentation, to watch the wine’s progression, to hold your hands over the pumice,” says Tim. “The sensory has to take priority over the purely technical.”

MAYPOP WINE

Maypop Wine Co is the vision and work of Vince Kelsey & Shea Guevara. With a combined 20 years of professional winemaking experience, the couple grew up tending vineyards and making wine with the patriarchs of their families in California. Both have worked in the vineyard to the cellar, Vince taking his first harvest just at 19 while still in undergrad and Shea at 23 in Oregon. From agrarian roots, they both consider themselves climate refuges and have settled in the Willamette Valley with a profound sense of abundance and appreciation for this land of milk and honey.

HUMAN CELLARS

Human, Vine, Nature. Bryan and Emily created Human Cellars after more than 20 years of wandering the earth, inspired by humans who have made the world a better place in their own small way. The philosophy of Human Cellars is simple- farm it following the rhythms of nature without the use of chemicals; keep it pure in the winery without fining, filtering or additions (save for a bit of sulfur); and be an active part of the community where you live.