OK, we’ve picked the wineries for
the Portland Indie Wine & Food Festival this year
...and they’re more amazing than ever

Forty wineries made the cut -- they’re gearing up
to pour at the festival

Portland, Ore. (4/2/2010) - The sixth annual Portland Indie Wine & Food Festival announced the names of the 40 Oregon craft wineries selected to pour their artisanal wines at the festival’s Grand Tasting, to be held Saturday, May 8th from 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. in inner Northeast Portland. The 40 wineries will pour eighty-one wines in a Portland-appropriate spot – the spacious (13,000 square feet) industrial-chic Bison Building (recently home to a circus!). Plenty of room for fantastic wine as well as fantastic food served by 15 of the city’s top restaurants.

"Our judges were blown away by the quality of the wines this year," said Lisa Donoughe, PIWF founder. “The 2007 vintage was a stunner vintage, and really a sleeper. The weather at harvest was such a question mark, and our winemakers stepped up to the challenge brilliantly,” adds Donoughe.

Selected Wineries:

(listed in alphabetical order)

Ancient Cellars
Angel Vine
Antica Terra
Arborbrook Vineyards
Artisanal Wine Cellars
Barking Frog Winery
Big Table Farm
Blakeslee Vineyard Estate
Capitello Wines
Carlton Cellars
Coeur de Terre Vineyard
Cubanisimo Vineyards
de Lancellotti Family Vineyards
Domaine Margelle
Dukes Family Vineyards
Durant Vineyards
Et Fille Wines
Genius Loci
Gresser Vineyard
Iota Cellars
J. Scott Cellars
Johan Vineyards
Kandarian Wine Cellars
Le Cadeau Vineyard
Lenné
Luminous Hills/Seven of Hearts
Merriman Wines
Monks Gate Vineyard
Quady North
Ribbon Ridge Vineyard
Ribera Vineyards
RR Winery
Thistle Wines
Velocity Cellars
VIDON Vineyard
Sno Road Winery
Vitae Springs Vineyard
Wahle Vineyards & Cellars
WildAire Cellars
Wy’East Vineyards

Click here to learn what the wineries will be pouring.

The wines were selected in a blind tasting (eleven flights of 167 wines total – during seven hours of focused tasting) conducted on March 15th, 2010 at the Hotel Vintage Plaza. The judging panel was made up of 12 wine professionals, including journalist and author Alice Feiring (Wall Street Journal), corporate beverage director Bernard Sun (Jean-Georges Management) and winemaker Michael Davies (A to Z Wineworks). Click here to see who all the judges are.

May 8th is the day to taste all this great wine. Join the independent producers who are the heart and soul of Oregon's world-class wine industry at the Bison Building, located at 419 NE 10th Ave, just east of downtown. The sixth annual Portland Indie Wine Festival is the opportunity to meet the next generation of winemakers from emerging wineries across the state. And it’s not just wine – it’s food, of course. Enjoy small plates from local restaurants and chefs that are putting Oregon on the national food map as well. Restaurant and food partners include Bambuza Vietnamese, Beaker & Flask, Biwa, Cafe Nell, Caffe Vita, Clyde Common, The Country Cat Dinnerhouse & Bar, Newman’s, Nostrana, Pazzo Ristorante, phresh Organic Catering, Pie Spot, Red Star Roasthouse & Tavern and Wildwood.

Tickets are now on sale and may be purchased online at www.indiewinefestival.com/tickets. General admission is $75 with tasting times from 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. and VIP admission is $125 with tasting times from 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.

For more information, please visit www.indiewinefestival.com or call (503) 595-0891

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The Portland Indie Wine Festival was the 2007 recipient of Travel Portland’s President’s Award. The 2010 Portland Indie Wine & Food Festival is co-produced by Watershed Communications and Flint Design Co. Additional sponsors include: Brookside Inn, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, The Erath Family Foundation, Hotel Vintage Plaza, Imbibe Magazine, Irvine & Company LLC, Pazzo Ristorante, Portland Wine Storage, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, Tanner Creek Energy and Travel Portland.