About: Ivory McLaughlin

The winery tells me that all the 2021 single vineyard wines will be released over the next few months. Carter and Canary Hill may already have sold out. It’s worth a special salute  Continue Reading »

March 3, 2023 | Wine of the Week Ken Wright Cellars 2021 Shea Vineyard Pinot Noir 94 points Now more than three decades since it was first planted, the Shea vineyard is as  Continue Reading »

BY STACY BRISCOE | Wine Enthusiast “Liquor is worth fightin’ for, but water is worth dyin’ for.” Such is an old adage Ken Wright, owner and winemaker of Ken Wright Cellars in Carlton, Oregon, remembers from when  Continue Reading »

  Mother Nature never ceases to amaze.   When one’s business is farming, you are by necessity acutely aware of and impacted by every subtle change in the weather. You feel the shifts  Continue Reading »

  Ken Wright Cellars 2021 Chardonnay, Willamette Valley, $38 August 30, 2022 by Great Northwest Wine   The Wright family creates this Chardonnay from two of their estate sites — Haakon Lenai Vineyard, a Dundee  Continue Reading »