2011 Indie Wine & Food Festival

What do you get when you head over to an abandoned warehouse in northeast Portland in a Taxi Cab on Saturday? Well if it was May 14th you got an excellent taste of some great independent wines in the 7th annual Indie Wine & Food festival. This year there were over 30 wineries in attendance. Fourteen new wineries were selected and thirty past winners were invited back. The qualifier to be in the festival is a producer of 2500 cases or less and then be judged into the fest.

There was a wide variety of wines there from the Rogue Valley AVA to the Walla Wall AVA.  There were several produces who bring in their grapes from WA and make wine in Oregon some even in Portland. I was fortunate enough to taste a couple of the Urban wines, Seven Bridges Wine and Helioterra Wines. While the entire day was fantastic, not even mentioning the food, here were a couple of stand out wines that I tried.

White Rose Estate, Dundee Hills, Pinot 2008

White Rose

Carlton Hill, Yamhill Carlton, Pinot 2009

CArlton Hill

Seven Bridges, Columbia Valley, Malbec 2008

Seven Bridges

J.Scott, Rogue Valley, Grenache, 2009

J. Scott

List of all wineries:

http://www.indiewinefestival.com/wines.php