Oregon Pinot noir first burst onto the world wine stage when French wine judges found it impossible to distinguish it from its Burgundian cousin. David Lett’s Eyrie Vineyards’ 1975 South Block ...

Western Oregon was once the floor of an 8,000-foot ... places and the lower layer of sedimentary soil revealed in others. Loess, or windblown silty loam, is the shallowest of our three main ...

The issue may have to be resolved by the Oregon Court of Appeals and the state ... Buchanan said annual rainfall on the wind-blown glacial loess soils of these hills typically doesn't exceed ...

Both are sources of silt-size particles that interact with wind, sand, and vegetation to form loess deposits. Deflation, the lifting and removal of particles from a surface by the wind ...