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Rogue Valley ranks No. 2 in USA Today’s top wine regions
The Rogue Valley has poured itself into the No. 2 spot on USA Today’s “10Best” list, earning high praise from wine lovers and experts alike.
August 5, 2025
The Rogue Valley has poured itself into the No. 2 spot on USA Today’s “10Best” list, earning high praise from wine lovers and experts alike.
Two Ashland restaurants — Alchemy Restaurant and Bar and Larks Home Kitchen Cuisine — have earned national recognition for their exceptional wine programs.
What’s it like to live in a senior living facility? In “Ripcord,” a comedy about two older women who become roommates, their differing ideas create a sometimes laugh-filled, sometimes heartwarming tale of friendship and pleasure by two women with different of thoughts on how it should be done.
At Panache & Gusto, a limited-time wine-tasting pop-up set in the outdoor courtyard of Le Petit Café Crêperie, Georgina Ruff and Megita Denton will offer something refreshingly different: a judgment-free, community-rich experience built around female-driven wines, rare grape varieties and sustainable small producers.
The 12 wineries along the Bear Creek Wine Trail are teaming up to bring their best wines to the table for attendees of the inaugural Bear Creek Wine Trail Festival, with a chance to enjoy the scenic views and backdrop of Naumes Suncrest Winery in Talent.
Naumes Suncrest Winery is preparing for summer in a big way. From the building of a new outdoor stage designed to accommodate full bands, to outdoor seating renovations that will quadruple capacity — not to mention a concert series in the works — the Talent winery at 1950 Suncrest Road says it is on track to open its new, larger outdoor space by June.
Winegrower John Pratt will speak about the Rogue Valley as a treasured location for top-shelf location for quality grapes and wine at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at Southern Oregon University’s Hannon Library, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.
Long a local favorite for wine-tasting and outdoor events, Ashland’s Grizzly Peak Winery has also become a premier arts venue, hosting Rogue Theater Company, Siskiyou Music Project jazz concerts, and a host of other musical events.
Climate change is a double-edged sword for the wine industry. On the one hand, it can present weather events, variability, and long-term structural change, resulting in crop risks, production and quality issues, and suitability challenges. On the other hand, it can explain why Britain could be your next favorite wine region.
An area winemaker recently brought home a prestigious international award. Herb Quady’s white wine blend Pistoleta earned top honors in the Global Fine Wine Challenge results announced Dec. 5. The Challenge is an annual invitation-only competition open to the top 120 wines of each competing country.
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After a successful production of “The Vagina Monologues” and raising more than $2,000 for Planned Parenthood of Southwestern Oregon, Ashland actor and director Lia Dugal intends for “The Climate Monologues” to premiere in Oregon in late 2025 or early 2026 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland.
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Herbert Rothschild: Whether visualization and intention by themselves can effect broad social change is impossible to determine, but the question merits sustained consideration.
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