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In a State of Flux: Oregon Beyond the Willamette Valley
United States: Oregon, featured
, Jul 2026
Oregon has long been synonymous with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, but that is only part of the story. Beyond the Willamette Valley, the state is also producing some of America’s most distinctive Rhône- and Bordeaux-variety wines. This article takes a deep dive into Oregon’s diverse terroirs and emerging frontiers.
Willamette Valley Returns to Classicism: The 2024 Vintage
United States: Oregon, featured
, Jul 2026
In a dramatic shift from the dark, ripe profiles of recent vintages, Willamette Valley’s 2024s mark a return to high-toned fruit, soaring aromatics, energy and structure. Spanning nearly 1,000 tasting notes, this comprehensive report uncovers the climate challenges behind this neoclassical vintage and checks in on the late-release 2023s.
Unpacking Oregon's Multi-Faceted 2023 Vintage
United States: Oregon, featured
, Jul 2025
The 2023 vintage in Oregon defies broad generalizations. Many winemakers achieved excellence despite a compressed, warm and dry growing season. The resulting wines are floral and energetic, with unexpected personality, proving that 2023 is far from just another warm vintage.
Oregon 2022: The Rollercoaster Vintage
United States: Oregon, featured
, Aug 2024
From a decimating frost to a hot and dry summer, uneven ripening and a rushed harvest, Oregon growers and winemakers faced many challenges in 2022. Readers will need to be selective based on producer, but in many cases, perseverance yielded fascinating wines.
Sitting Pretty: Oregon's New Release Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Beyond
United States: Oregon, featured
, Jan 2024
Producers in Oregon have made a remarkable comeback following the nearly non-existent 2020s, with two vintages that are stylistically yin and yang, yet are sure to win the hearts of long-time collectors.
Cellar Favorite: 2010 Beaux Frères Pinot Noir The Beaux Frères Vineyard
United States: Oregon, cellar favorite, Cellar Favorites
, Oct 2023
The 2010 Pinot Noir The Beaux Frères Vineyard is a perfect example of how maturity can propel a wine of humble beginnings beyond expectations. The 2010s are the product of a cool and classic vintage that made producers question when the wines would peak. Today, the wines are in the sweet spot.
Oregon’s 2019 Pinot Noirs - A Return to Classicism
United States: Oregon, featured
, Feb 2022
The Willamette Valley’s winning streak, which has seldom been interrupted for almost the past two decades, continued through 2019, a year that has produced some epic Pinot Noirs of noteworthy elegance and energy. This is truly a golden age for high-quality Pinot Noirs from across Oregon. One could convincingly argue that the last six vintages, from 2014 through 2019, produced many of the greatest wines to ever emerge from the state.
Oregon Outside the Pinot Noir Box
United States: Oregon, featured
, Sep 2020
For many wine lovers, Oregon, and especially the Willamette Valley, is all Pinot Noir, all the time. Perhaps no other region in the New World is so closely associated with a single variety. And yet there’s so much more happening here, especially with Chardonnay. White wine and reds not made from Pinot Noir are approaching almost half of our annual Oregon coverage, which is a remarkable development over the last decade.
Oregon Pinot Noir: The Winning Streak Continues
United States: Oregon, featured
, Jul 2020
Oregon’s unprecedented run of outstanding vintages which began in 2014, has been extended yet again with 2018. In fact, you have to go all the way back to 2011 and 2007 to find years that were truly challenging, and both of those vintages actually produced a large number of outstanding wines.
Winemaking and Wine Marketing in a Plague Year
Argentina, United States: Oregon, France, Italy, New Zealand, General Interest, United States: California, featured, Australia
, May 2020
In just the past couple of months, the novel coronavirus has profoundly changed the production and sale of wine around the globe. In this roundtable interview, 35 producers get specific about the challenges they are facing.