2025 Oregon Wine Symposium | Reimagining Wine Packaging for a Reduced Carbon Footprint

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Herb Quady, President, Quady North/Barrel 42 Custom Winecraft/Applegate Vineyard Management
Herb Quady is a second-generation winegrower who moved to Southern Oregon with his family in 2003. In 2006, he planted Mae’s Vineyard, 16 acres in the Applegate Valley, and founded Quady North Winery and Applegate Vineyard Management. Today, he farms about 80 acres of LIVE and Organic certified vineyards, and is a managing partner in Barrel 42, a LIVE certified custom crush facility. In 2020, Herb was awarded the “Founder’s Award” from the Oregon Winery Association, in acknowledgment of his leadership in the wine industry. In 2024, Herb was named the Oregon Wine Press “Person of the Year.”

Melissa Saunders MW, CEO and Founder, Communal Brands and Wine Queen
Melissa Saunders is the CEO & Founder of Communal Brands, a producer, importer, distributor and innovator of eco-conscious wines. Through Wine Queen consulting, she passionately educates, advocates, and develops wine packaging strategies that will greatly reduce the wine industry’s environmental impact. Melissa is also an attorney with alcohol beverage law expertise, a published author and a Master of Wine.

Adam Rack, Co-founder, ReVino
Adam Rack is the co-founder of Revino, a company rebuilding the reuse economy for the wine & beverage industry. With a passion for environmental stewardship, he’s helped to prevent the use of over one million single-use bottles during his time in Oregon’s wine industry and helped to build out the keg wine market with the Coopers Hall team, consulting on keg wine programs of all sizes from small restaurants to the Oregon Convention Center and Zoo. In 2020 he launched a wine club exclusively featuring reusable bottles, leading into Revino’s work today.

Adam serves on the PR3 Reuse Standards Panel, is a team leader with his local emergency response team, and in his freetime enjoys guerilla gardening with his partner by spreading native plant seeds on their runs.

Amy (Ames) Wesselman, Winemaker/Owner, Westrey Wine Company
Amy (Ames) Wesselman is the president/owner/co-winemaker of Westrey Wine Co. in McMinnville. After interning at Domaine Dujac and Domaine de l’Arlot, they returned to Oregon to work for Bethel Heights and Rex Hill, and worked for David Lett at The Eyrie Vineyards for five years. Farming a vineyard in the Dundee Hills, serving as the executive director of the International Pinot Noir Celebration as well as winemaking for Westrey has kept Ames very busy since the winery’s first vintage in 1993. Now Ames dedicates all of their time to Westrey.

Clive Pursehouse (moderator), US Editor, Oregon & Washington Correspondent, Decanter
Clive is the US Editor for Decanter Magazine where he also covers the wines of the Pacific Northwest. He has been writing about the wines of Oregon and Washington on and off for nearly 20 years. Clive founded a blog, The Northwest Wine Anthem, back when blogs mattered in the mid 2000s and was the Culture Editor of the road cycling lifestyle magazine Peloton.