The James Beard Foundation has announced the Semi-Finalists for their 2020 Restaurant and Chef Awards. Now in its 30th year, the James Beard Award remains one of the most coveted prizes in the American culinary world, and this year’s list of Semi-Finalists includes a lot of natural wine. The Outstanding Wine Program category in particular has found a taste for all things … [Read more...] about The James Beard Foundation Has Natural Wine Love With Their Semi-Finals Announcements
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An Interview With Herb Quady, Southern Oregon’s Godfather Of Grapes
Herb Quady’s birth coincided with his father’s decision to give up a career manufacturing high-powered explosives to quietly make dessert wines. Quady Winery in Madera, California was young Herb Quady’s playground and, eventually, his summer job. A few years after high school, Quady went to work at Bonny Doon Vineyard, where Randall Grahm and his band of merry winemakers showed … [Read more...] about An Interview With Herb Quady, Southern Oregon’s Godfather Of Grapes
The Very Best Of Third Coast Soif 2018
In the city of Chicago, where the beer beards grow long and fluffy and the cocktail suspenders snap with a mighty torque, could natural wine be the next great beverage trend? If that happens it will have been incubated here, at Third Coast Soif, now in its second year and quickly establishing itself as one of the great American-born natural wine festivals. Hosted on Sunday, … [Read more...] about The Very Best Of Third Coast Soif 2018
Day Camp: The Stunning New Wine Tasting Room From Oregon’s Day Wines
The latest addition to the Day Wines lineup is not a new rosé-inspired pét-nat as you might expect, but instead a brand-new tasting room at Day Camp. Located in Dundee, Oregon, about an hour’s drive southwest of Portland, Brianne Day’s communal winery is an expression of the ethos of natural winemaking through architecture. Stepping out of your car (extra points if you came … [Read more...] about Day Camp: The Stunning New Wine Tasting Room From Oregon’s Day Wines