WINE CLUB PICK-UP and SHIPPING NOV 9th

YOUR FALL ALLOCATION!
STUFF & THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW

It's that time of year when we start to settle down from harvest and choose the wines that will be in your fall allocation! Of course, there are a few details and dates that we want to remind you of, so here's a handy summary.

• Wine Club Pick-Up Party is on November 9 at the Tasting Room!

• Your credit card on file will be charged on Sunday, November 3.

• For our shipping members, wines will be shipped out starting November 11.

• Please make sure your billing and address information is current.

WINE CLUB PICK-UP PARTY

Join us November 9th for our annual fall Wine Club Pick-Up Party. You'll be able to taste through the wines in the fall allocation, nibble from our grazing board, and talk with Matt and Angie about wine, harvest, and life. And guess what? As a member, it's all FREE!!!

Of course, life is better with friends, so bring your friends and they can experience what it's like to be a club member for a $15 tasting fee, refundable if they join the club.
 

🗓️  Saturday, November 9th  | 1-7 pm
📍  3201 SE 50TH AVE. Portland, Oregon 97206
🍷  Taste the line-up of wines in the allocation.
🎟️  Free tasting with no RSVP! Bring a non-club friend for $15!
🚗  Plenty of street parking!
 

THE WINES

Our six bottle members will be delighted to receive:

• '23 Love & Squalor 'A Frayed Knot' Gewürztraminer Skin Contact

• '23 Love & Squalor Sauvignon Blanc Willamette Valley

• '23 Love & Squalor Gamay Noir Willamette Valley

• '21 Love & Squalor Pinot Noir Reserved

• '22 Pet Matt Sparkling Sekt - Riesling

• '19 Love & Squalor Pinot noir Temperance Hill Vineyard (not yet released)

Our 12 bottle member will receive the above wines and some exciting Library wines as verticals including a few different vintages of the Gamay Noir!

Luxe members, don't forget you enjoy a 20% discount all year, $20 shipping, large format and library wines.

NEW SHOPPING EXPERIENCE

We've launched a new e-commerce site, which means we can now ship to more states! With the system upgrade, some member information like your password may not have carried over, so you'll likely need to reset it. If you run into any technical issues, please don't hesitate to reach out—I’m here to help. We're working to iron out any kinks, and hopefully, it’ll be a smooth experience for you. Thanks for your patience and support!

Cascadia Contact - Orange Wine Tasting

ORANGE WINE FEST
AUGUST 22

Celebrate and share in the love of Orange Wines at our tasting featuring some of our favorites made in the Pacific NW

We’re joined in our Cascadia Contact - A PacNW Orange Wine Celebration - by the following amazing list of winery friends

Buona Notte Wines
Day Wines
Division Winemaking
Fossil and Fawn Wines
Johan Vineyards
GC Wines
Limited Addition Wines
Maloof wines
The Marigny Wines
Ovum Wines
Portland Wine Co./Love & Squalor <—- That’s us!!
Pray Tell Wines
Troon Vineyard

We’ll have tastes from each of these wineries poured by their teams along with cheeses from La Femme Fromage to level up your celebration.

We hope you join the orange fun with us!
Tickets are just $15 to taste all the wines!

Thursday, August 22 | 5:00-7:00 pm
@ The Wine Yard 2005 SE 8th Ave

🍷 Orange Wines by PAC NW wineries

🧀 Loire cheeses by La Femme Fromage (sold separately)

👋 We hope to see you here! 👋

THREE BOTTLE THURSDAYS

10% OFF THREE OR MORE BOTTLES
THURSDAYS IN THE TASTING ROOM.
(WINE CLUB, 20% OFF)
 

28 August - Garageland Pinot Noir 2021
14 Sept - Pet Matt Rosé of Zinfandel 2021
21 Sept - Love & Squalor Gamay Noir 2021
28 Sept - Love & Squalor Skin Contact "A Frayed Knot" Gewürztraminer 2022
5 & 12 Oct - Love & Squalor Riesling Reserved 2016 

As you can see, each week we'll be featuring a special wine in addition to our regular flight of wines. The first week is the Garageland Pinot Noir 2021. The name is stolen from The Clash, and is an homage to all of the artisans - from musicians and painters, to vintners and food makers, who toil away behind nondescript roll-up doors.

The next 2 weeks it’s our PET MATT Sparkling Rosé of Zinfandel 2021. A play on the word Pét-Nat made by Matt, a cheeky sort, who deserves some little scribbles on his face. This one looks playful, but it is seriously good… a refreshing wonderful little fizz that tickles the tongue.

Then we have the dazzling Love & Squalor Gamay Noir 2021 that has gotten lot of press — and for good reason! We were voted one of the "20 best Northwest wines of 2022" by Seattle Times. We were praised with a gold metal from Great Northwest Wine. It got 92 Points in Wine Enthusiast, 92 points from from James Suckling, 91 points from Northwest Wine Report and 16.5/20 from Jancis Robinson, who also included us in an article about great Thanksgiving wines.

In the last week of September there’s the Love & Squalor Skin Contact "A Frayed Knot" Gewürztraminer 2022, which is truly a singular wine from the 1971 planted Sunnyside Vineyard. The color derives from a long cold skin maceration and was fermented dry in Syrah barrels. It has a floral and sweet nose, medium weight body and a nice mineral finish. We call it a rosé but technically it is really an “orange” wine (no! oranges were NOT used in the making of this wine!). This one has also gotten a little press with Wine Enthusiast, Northwest Wine Report gave it 92 points & Critics Choice and Paul Gregutt’s site also gave it 92 points and called it inspired, delicious, and unique.

In October we will be spotlighting the Love & Squalor Riesling Reserved 2016, Angie's favorite. The Riesling Reserved, formerly labeled as "Fancy Pants" Riesling, this one is all old vine sources and wild yeast, which gives it a distinctive zing. The 2016 vintage was warm and dry, which gave us a complex grape with well established acid. All of my favorite sell-known riesling aromas and palate are there, young lemon, honeysuckle and a light note of the elusive "diesel". The press thought so, too. Paul Gregutt gave it 93points, Northwest Wine Report gave it 91 & Critic's Choice and Jancis Robinson gave it 16.5/20

Savings apply to ANY three wines, so feel free to mix and match wines that you love. 

TH/FRI 4-8pm
SAT/SUN 4-8pm

more about the tasting room here

US Women's National Team Soccer Watch Party

WATCH PARTY JULY 26TH AT 6PM

Join us in rooting on the US Women's National Team vs. Netherlands on July 26th at 6pm until it ends!

We are huge fans of women's soccer and we'll be cheering for Portland Thorns players Sophia Smith and Crystal Dunn, as well as the rest of this talented and exciting team.

Wine specials and small bites will be available. Wear your jerseys and team gear and LFG!

Here’s the US WNT schedule if you want to follow along.

Harvest Party 2022

Come celebrate Harvest 2022 with us on Friday, October 14 from 4pm to 9pm at the winery and tasting room.

We are a "working winery". What does that mean? Well you get to enjoy watching us do our thing. We'll have lots and lots of grapes coming in, forklifts will be whirring around, and the ethereal aroma of fermentation will permeate the air. It's an awesome sight to witness and you can ask all the questions you want of our team (well, wine-related questions).

We'll be pouring the new release Pet Matt Rosé of Zinfandel along with wine samples straight from the barrel. Tasty bites will also be available for purchase.

Plus, you'll receive 10% off your purchase of three bottles or more!

Mark your calendar, call your friends, and hang out with us this Friday!

PINK PARTY TO RAISE FUNDS FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH & NEW RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT

PINK PARTY - JUNE 4TH from 1-7PM

Join us for a party celebrating pink wines and women's reproductive rights!

We'll be pouring four wine flights of our newly released pink wines and will donate 50% of the day's profits to support women's reproductive rights and access.

Plus, if we see you wearing pink, we'll throw in a super secret fancy bonus pour. We hope you join us to enjoy some great wine and support women's rights.

NEW RELEASE:A FRAYED KNOT

Sometimes the best things come as a result of an accident. When your hand is forced in an unfamiliar direction, you can discover paths and solutions you never knew you liked. That is how this wine came to be. I first made it by sort of mistake in 2013 when a vineyard owner gifted us a half ton of Gewurztraminer - we have been refining the accidents that made this wine special ever since. Sometimes a knot that frayed is still the best (and least afraid) answer to a complicated question.

The 2021 "A Frayed Knot" Rosé of Gewürztraminer gets its orangey color, and savory characteristics, from the skins. Unlike our Rosé of Pinot Noir which goes directly from the vineyard into the press, these Alsatian-style grapes spend up to two weeks cold soaking in their own juice, imparting a rosy color and some light texture. Then the whole lot goes into the press and undergoes a gentle fermentation in old barrels. The resulting wine is a dry mouthful of delicious tropical and stone fruits with a bit of spice and a wink of bitters. It's a truly unique bottling and always goes quickly.

Only 75 cases were produced, so if you want more later, well, I'm afraid not.

RIESLINGFEIER (party)

RIESLINGFEIER

To celebrate the arrival of Spring and our favorite grape, we are throwing a Riesling Fest ("Feier" in German pronounced FIRE!) for all of you. The Feier is Saturday April 2nd from 1pm-7pm. We will be featuring flights and glasses including our beer collaboration with Great Notion Brewing - the Riesling Radler, our 2020 Pet Matt Sekt Sparkling Dry Riesling and the latest release of the our most renowned wine - 2017 Dry Riesling Willamette Valley. We will have some pairings of hand-made local sausages, kraut and fixings on hand to help you celebrate in high style.

PICKUP PARTY

Save The Date - 'Friends With Benefits' members, Friday, May 13 4-7pm is the wine club pickup party at the winery. We've missed seeing you, and while we are all remaining cautious, we look forward to welcoming you at the tasting room for a super special sip and a snack. Bring a friend and if they join we'll toss in an extra bottle in your box. See you there! Oh, and don’t forget, adding extra bottles to your club box gets you that sweet 20% discount during pick-up.

We want to assure you that there is zero supply-chain disruption of fine wines for your table here at Love & Squalor HQ. However we are down to the last case of the most delicious 2016 Pinot Noir Reserve. It seems like we just released this, but it went FAST because it is amazing, of course! Jump online and grab the last of it.

email with any questions at hey you!

@portlandwinecompany | #portlandwinecompany Home of @loveandsqualorwine

Beaujolais Nouveau in Portland? Oh là là

Beaujolais Nouveau in Portland, Oregon? Well, I don’t mind if I do!

Gamay is Awesome. That's why Love & Squalor Gamay Noir (and the fabulous Corey Schuster) will be at the wonderful annual soirée hosted by ST. JACK restaurant & bar on November 16th.

Visit stjackpdx.com to get your tickets

Here’s the link to the Facebook Event page

Thanksgiving Wine Tasting at Jacobsen Salt

COME BUY WINE (and salt and honey and candy—oh my!) We are pouring our wines at Jacobsen Salt on Saturday November 28, 2015 at 11-3pm: http://bit.ly/1OgPsa8 ‪#‎jacobsensalt‬

Come glory at the wonderous tall hair and taste all the L&S wines - including the new Antsy Pants Riesling and the 2015 Premier Gamay Nouveau. The Jacobsen Salt and Bee Local retail shop is hosting L&S for this awesome Small Business Saturday in SE PDX.

And, for an extra $5, you'll get a 3-course, Jacobsen Salt Co. and Bee Local inspired amuse bouche menu to go with our wines.

Jacobsen Salt Retail Store is at 602 SE Salmon Street in Portland, Ore.

Plate & Pitchfork Dinners 2014

Love & Squalor is proud to sit at the table again this year. The featured restaurants at our August 3rd Zenger Farms dinner are Racion and Avaiary - two of the most lauded and adventurous spots cooking in Portland today.  

For tickets look here