For more than a decade, the Oregon Truffle Festival has been the leading voice for a burgeoning American truffle industry as well as an exciting culinary festival. From James Beard Award-winning chefs to truffle industry experts to food journalists and food enthusiasts, dozens of renowned culinary personalities and industry players participate in the Oregon Truffle Festival every year. It’s the only event of its kind in the country, and the foremost wintertime culinary event in the Pacific Northwest.

The Oregon Truffle Festival is a “party with a purpose,” a nonprofit organization promoting a burgeoning truffle industry in North America, and a collection of winter events centered in the Willamette Valley, our country’s only wine and truffle region.

More information: oregontrufflefestival.com

Photos by Kathryn Elsesser.

Founded in 2006 by lifelong Oregonian and queer winemaker Remy Drabkin, Remy Wines is a Willamette Valley winery honoring Old World-style wines with a progressive voice and undeniable flair.

Remy makes an impressive portfolio of wines with Oregon-grown Italian varieties, which can be enjoyed at her humble and welcoming farmhouse tasting room in Dayton, Oregon.

In 2020, Remy co-founded Wine Country Pride, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, bringing LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations to rural Oregon and creating a space to uplift and support a diverse community of queer people who call wine country home.

Over the years, Remy Wines has evolved to encompass the vision of its founder as she herself has become a fixture within her local community. After more than 12 years of public service, Remy was appointed interim mayor of her hometown of McMinnville, Oregon in the spring of 2022.

Photos by Zachary Goff.

For more information, please visit Remy Wines on Instagram.