Mary Cressler, wine food and travel writer and publisher of Vindulge, is putting the finishing touches on a cookbook called Fire and Wine: 75 wood-fired recipes and wine pairings inspired by the Pacific Northwest, published by Sasquatch Books out of Seattle. In Mary's words: "It’s going to be full of stories of cooking at wineries throughout [...]
Entries are now being accepted for THE Rosé Competition, now in its second year. Hosted by Bob Ecker, Napa Valley based wine writer and founder of THE Rosé Competition and Shari Gherman, president of the American Fine Wine Competition (AFWC), the organization is accepting dry, sweet and sparkling rose wines from all over the world. Judging will [...]
The window is now open for Wine & Spirits Magazine to accept Oregon Sparkling and Rosé wines for its August summer wines issue. This tasting focus requires you to fill out a form here, and there is no charge for these submissions as it is within the tasting focus realm listed on the submissions calendar. You may send these in [...]
Honest Cooking Magazine is preparing four wine guides for the warmer season, and the articles will be published on Honest Cooking's website and its social media channels late spring and early summer. Deadline for wine samples is March 31 2019, and if you'd like to look at their past articles and wine coverage, please click [...]
Have you sent Paul Gregutt of Wine Enthusiast magazine any of your new wine releases lately? If not, now's a great time--he'd like new releases sent to him on a regular schedule, and, he writes, "by so doing, wineries become eligible for in-person visits and inclusion in many other features and stories." See the Wine [...]
Sunset Magazine Submission Deadline: January 1, 2019 Website What began as a small story has now opened up to a larger article on dry/off-dry Germanic Alsatian white wines in a May 2019 issue of Sunset Magazine. New editor-in-chief Matt Bean (a former editor-in-chief of Men’s Health and earlier SI.com and Entertainment Weekly) is seeking off-dry [...]
Oregon fall vineyard by Carolyn Wells Kramer On November 15, 2018 the results from two important Oregon comprehensive tastings were published; first, The Wine Advocate’s Oregon report from this past summer was completed and posted, rounding out the total number wines to 1,121 reviewed across 15 AVAs, the most ever. And second, the James Suckling [...]
Esquire Magazine Submission Deadline: ended Website For a spring entertaining story in Esquire Magazine, the beverage and lifestyle writer is seeking samples of Oregon Pinot noir. You can read some of his recent Esquire food and drinks articles here. Esquire reaches almost 800K readers in print, and 21 million readers online each month. The submission window [...]
The Drunken Cyclist website Submission Deadline: November 26 - December 7, 2018 Website Jeff at The Drunken Cyclist website is seeking Oregon Brut and Brut rosé to review, the results of which he plans to publish before Christmas. He is hoping to get a couple dozen or so wines to taste in two categories: Brut [...]
Oregon's wine community was stunned on Nov. 5 when friend and winemaker Jesus Guillen passed away unexpectedly after losing a battle with cancer, leaving behind his wife, Yuliana, and 10-year-old son, Adrian. On Nov. 24, Winter's Hill Estate will host a one-day wine tasting and sale of Guillen Family Wines, at which all tasting fees [...]