Women Write & Wine: A Recipe for Soul-Led Living
Jul
27

Women Write & Wine: A Recipe for Soul-Led Living

Women Write & Wine: A Recipe for Soul-Led Living
✨Theme: Abundance Mindset

Join Allison Kirley on Sunday, July 27th at 4 PM at 45th Parallel Wines for another inspiring gathering of journaling, connection, and delicious wine.

This month, we’re exploring Shifting to an Abundance Mindset. We’ll explore the subtle ways scarcity thinking shows up and begin the shift toward a mindset of abundance, trust, and possibility.

Come sip, write, and connect with like-minded women in a beautiful and welcoming space.

Wine, non-alcoholic beverages, food available for purchase. Support a local wine shop and thrive! Sign up HERE

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Tuesday Tasting: Franchere & Hanson Vineyards
Jul
22

Tuesday Tasting: Franchere & Hanson Vineyards

Join us for complimentary tastings every Tuesday evening from 5-7pm!

This week we’re happy to welcome a double feature: Franchere Wine Company and Hanson Vineyards

Franchere Wine Company

I've been making adventurous, balanced, thoughtfully crafted wines under the Franchere label since 2013. I ferment my wines solely with native yeasts and without temperature controlled tanks, filtration, weird enological products, or fancy machines.

And while I love grapes in the Pinot family, I also work with Grüner Veltliner, Blaufränkisch, Ehrenfelser, Kerner, and other varieties that are less commonly grown in the Willamette Valley.

Hanson Vineyards

Behind every bottle stands a decade of focus, farming and faith in this crazy endeavor.  The idea is pretty simple:  grow the best, highest quality grapes we possibly can.  Then, at the peak of ripeness, harvest the grapes and allow them to turn themselves into wine.  That's it!  

We don't believe in adding a bunch of "stuff" to our wine.  Just a direct, unadulterated expression of our soil and the weather mother nature provides.

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Tuesday Tasting: Jackalope Wine Cellars
Jul
15

Tuesday Tasting: Jackalope Wine Cellars

Join us for complimentary tastings every Tuesday evening from 5-7pm!

This week we’re happy to welcome Jackalope Wine Cellars!

From the winemaker …

I began my journey in the wine industry pouring for a small, family-owned winery near Salem, OR. My first career was all office work, so when I found myself working in a bucolic setting, the grin didn’t fade for days.

When Fall hit I joined a harvest crew. Harvest work is hard, wet, with long-hours, but ultimately satisfying work. Camaraderie is formed through the suffering, and there is always something new to learn. The first team lunch I had began my love affair with the industry, and wine: a tired, wet, exhausted crew sharing a large meal and a glass, taking a break from the work to regroup and prepare for the afternoon’s tasks. This showed me: the wine industry is about community, and a love of the work, something I’d not experienced before.

For me, the chance to create something, to have an end product I could hold in my hand and share led me to wanting to make my own wine. Further, wine is a social beverage. A wine bottle contains memories, experiences, and love. I want to create this.

Why Jackalope Wine Cellars? The jackalope has been a sort of totem for me for a long time. As a kid, my older cousin would write and send postcards from Nebraska, telling me all about the animal, swearing they were real. These memories formed a bond early, which gave me fond memories to treasure, as he passed away when I was in 8th grade.

Fast forward to 2004: unsatisfied with my life as a civil engineer, I decided to make a drastic change and quit my job, sell my valuables, and travel. My gift to myself to start this journey was a jackalope tattoo on my right shoulder to join me on my adventures.

And now, another turning point in my life: winemaker. The jackalope has become a special form of support for me and I want him featured prominently in this adventure. Thus, Jackalope Wine Cellars.

Thank you for joining me on this journey.

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Tuesday Tasting: Idiot’s Grace
Jul
8

Tuesday Tasting: Idiot’s Grace

Join us for complimentary tastings every Tuesday evening from 5-7pm!

This week we’re happy to welcome Idiot’s Grace!

Idiot’s Grace is a farm and winery in Mosier, Oregon, established in 2002. The aim of our work is to determine the ideal material conditions (e.g: vine genes, ecology, farm & cellar know-how) for the making of original, American wines that express the specific character of the Columbia Gorge, particularly our hillside in Mosier.

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Tuesday Tasting: Phelp’s Creek
Jul
1

Tuesday Tasting: Phelp’s Creek

Join us for complimentary tastings every Tuesday evening from 5-7pm!

This week we’re happy to welcome Phelp’s Creek!

Nestled in the West Hills of the Hood River Valley, Phelps Creek Vineyards: A boutique family estate where small-scale production delivers wines crafted with care and commitment. Known for our estate-grown Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, we welcome you to taste what makes Phelps Creek so special.

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