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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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: 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: 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: Syncline
Jun
24

Tuesday Tasting: Syncline

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

This week we’re happy to welcome Syncline Winery!

Poppie and James met during the harvest of 1997 while working together in the cellar in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, where James had been winemaking since 1994. Shortly after, they fell madly in love and began plans for a new endeavor: a vineyard of their own.

Lured by the majestic wildness of the mountains and whitewater rivers, they relocated their home to the Columbia River Gorge. Their passion for Rhône and sparkling wines led them to explore the emerging potential of vineyards in Washington State.

Inspired by the early efforts of Rhône and Burgundy-style wines sampled from Washington vineyards, Syncline’s first vintage in 1999 consisted of 76 cases of Celilo Vineyard Pinot Noir from vines planted in 1973. They were part of the small group that founded the Columbia Gorge AVA in 2004.

They have built a strong reputation as a creative, limited-production, autonomous estate winery with a vision of creating world-class wines while maintaining biodynamic estate vineyards, green building practices, and innovative wine growing.

With 19 acres of estate vineyards in the Columbia Gorge and winegrower partners in Red Mt, Yakima, and Horse Heaven Hills, production is kept under 5,000 cases annually to ensure intimacy with each barrel and vine.

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Tuesday Tasting: Landmass Wines
Apr
22

Tuesday Tasting: Landmass Wines

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

This week we’re happy to welcome Landmass Wines!

“Our love for the diverse landmasses of the Pacific Northwest drives our story and our winemaking.

Whether it be the high heat of the Rogue Valley, the wild winds of the Columbia Gorge, or the rich rain of the Willamette Valley, each of these landmasses shapes us and our wines.”

Check out this short video!

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Tuesday Tasting: Domaine Pouillon
Apr
15

Tuesday Tasting: Domaine Pouillon

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

This week we’re happy to welcome Domaine Pouillon!

“Domaine Pouillon is a collaboration between wife and husband. When we met in 2005, we both had a desire to make wine with old world flair.  We built a home on the frontier-like paradise of the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State and began right away with the harvest and crush of grapes - experimenting and testing our own limits of winemaking knowledge and physical exhaustion.

Many of our first days of working together ended in elaborate meals cooked over a wood fire and washed down with good French wine followed by captivating conversations about our dreams for the future. Those struggles, companionship, and successes fueled our passion to turn our full-time hobby into a real winery.

As our winery and our tastes have matured, we’ve turned our focus toward producing wines that excite the senses and express the unique influences of our winegrowing region.”

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Workshop: Women, write, and wine
Mar
30

Workshop: Women, write, and wine

Join Allison Kirley for her new workshop Women, Write & Wine

“Join me for an inspiring afternoon on Saturday, March 30, 2025, at 3:30-5 PM at 45th Parallel Wines. This event is the beginning of my Recipe for Soul-Led Living series, where we explore the essential ingredients for a life that’s deeply aligned with your true self.

This month, we’ll dive into Owning Your Power—letting go of the fear of being too much, taking up space, and showing up authentically. Through 3-5 guided journal prompts, you’ll reflect, create, and connect with the parts of you that are eager to be fully expressed.

The first half of our time will be spent journaling with the remaining time left to connect. Wine and non-alcholic beverages available for purchase. Whether you're an avid journaler or just beginning your writing journey, this gathering is for you.”

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Tuesday Tasting: Nueva Aventura
Mar
25

Tuesday Tasting: Nueva Aventura

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

Nueva Aventura Wines

Our story begins with our Father, Manuel, working as a Forman for an organic pear & apple orchard named Pheasant Valley for about 33 years. Over time the orchard evolved into Pheasant Valley Vineyard & Winery, which we spent well over 2 years chopping down 18+ acres of pear and apple trees to create a beautiful organic vineyard from scratch. So naturally, growing up we became farming boys thru and thru.

I, Adrian and my bother Hernan spent much of our time caring for the land, harvesting & packing its fruit, crafting a drinkable work of art, selling that art and everything in between.

Eventually we both worked our way into the cellar. And there we stayed, learning, shadowing and picking up all kinds of techniques from an array of different winemakers. Now working alongside Hiyu Wine Farm, we have been given an opportunity to purchase locally grown grapes from around the area to produce and present our version of quality wine.  

With our extensive experience and excitement to embark on new adventures, Nueva Aventura Wines was born! Founded in 2015, we have produced over 10 different vintages in small lots using natural authentic & low intervention practices with local quality grapes. We invite you to taste the secret worth waiting for!

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Live Music: Forrest VanTuyl
Mar
22

Live Music: Forrest VanTuyl

Forrest VanTuyl is a songwriter and poet from Goldendale, Washington. His work is based on years spent packing mules and cowboying in the remote alpine and canyon country of Eastern Washington and Northeast Oregon. He has performed at The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, written music for the US Forest Service, and been published in the New York Times.

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