“LIVE!” EVENT

Art Meets Wine LIVE! was held on Saturday, May 20, at the SHARC in Sunriver. Tastings were from carefully chosen wineries that represent different varieties of wine and growing regions in Oregon wine country. This all-inclusive event included wine, art, music and food. A virtual auction, raffles and a wine wall completed the event.

Be sure to complete your registration including a credit card so that you are ready to bid on your favorite auction items.  Directions on an Auctria Mobile App are on the Silent Auction/Raffle page.

LIVE EVENT

Art Meets Wine in the High desert will be held on Saturday, May 4, at the SHARC in Sunriver. To enhance the experience for attendees, the search and selection of wineries has broadened to include Oregon, Washington and California. This all-inclusive event will include wine, art, music and food. An oniline auction, raffles and a wine wall completed the event.

2024 Art Meets Wine in the High Desert
2024 Art Meets Wine in the High Desert

On May 20, we brought the tasting room from 11 unique wineries to YOU, right here in Sunriver.

These wineries represented the different wine regions in Oregon. There were two separately ticketed sessions:

2:00 – 4:45 p.m.
5:15 – 8:00 p.m.

Artists from the Artists’ Gallery Sunriver were doing live demonstrations during the event.
This was a great opportunity to meet artists and purchase local art.

Your ticket will include wine tastings, food pairings and live music.

The Following Wineries Were “LIVE!” on May 20, 2023!

Sunriver Brewing Co.*Sunriver Brewing Co. will have select beers available if you prefer beer instead a glass of wine with your ticket.

Battle Creek Cellars

Battle Creek Cellars, Portand, OR. Since 1998, Battle Creek Cellars has produced terroir-driven Pinot Noir with delicious flavor and acclaim to match. Battle Creek Cellars has curated Pinot Noir from some of the most exciting vineyards in the state to create a wine that compromises nothing in quality and enjoyment.

Black Goat Winery

Black Goat was founded by two old Italians — Italo Durighello, and Tony Pecolatto, who both share an equal love for wine. Our grapes are handpicked and hand sorted to assure the best quality fruit is used in our wines. Everything is made in small batches with no additives and aged in minimal oak to produce an unfiltered and refined natural taste. We hope you enjoy Black Goat Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Cabernet Franc, Vino Rosso, Chardonnay and Malbec
Honesty and simplicity drives everything we do when it comes to crafting premium natural wine. Our approach is simple — real wine with minimal intervention.

Coria Estates

Cória Estates is a Mexican-American family owned winery in the heart of the Willamette Valley focusing on Pinot noir, Pinot gris, Rosé, Chardonnay, Riesling and Merlot. “No two vintages are the same; which provides us with a unique and expressive wine each year. This makes the entire process an exciting and mysterious part of the beauty and joy we gain from the vines and from wine making itself.”

J Wrigley Vineyards

J Wrigley Vineyards is an Estate Vineyard located within the McMinnville AVA. John Wrigley has been hand crafting boutique wines from the family vineyard since our first vintage in 2011. We are a World Class Winery and Vineyard with Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Riesling, Rosé and White Bubbly. Fall in love with J Wrigley World-Class Wines!

Ken Wright Cellars

Over 40 years of wine making has taught Ken Wright a simple truth: source is everything. Located in rural Carlton, Oregon, Ken Wright Cellars specializes in single vineyard Pinot noir. With a clarity and breadth that is unequaled by other varieties, Pinot noir is the ultimate transparent vehicle for connection to place.
We use organic certified practices as a base and advanced nutrition-based farming ensures that the wines express the full range of aroma and flavor. Ken Wright Cellars now produces a single vineyard Pinot noir from 13 different vineyard sites in the Northern Willamette Valley.

Native Flora

Native Flora is a small, secluded vineyard and winery hidden high in the famed Dundee Hills. Everything that exists on our 33 acre site works in harmony to grow great grapes, and produce fine wine. Our entire wine life, from farming to sales is rooted in intelligent integration. When you set foot upon the estate, you have literally walked into that life.
Dazzle your taste buds with pinots of unmatched concentration, weight and perfect balance.

Phelps Creek Vineyard

Phelps Creek Vineyard is a small boutique winery focusing on estate grown Pinot Noir and Chardonnay varietals, annually producing 5,000 cases of wine in total. Vineyard care takes center stage in our wine production, where sustainable agricultural practices combined with careful management of the fruit yields on the vines lead to the noted luxurious intensity within our bottlings.

Project M Wines

Project M is a producer of exceptional Pinot Noir and White Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley. With over 30 years of collective wine industry experience, they craft precise and elegant Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Rosé and Riesling from distinctive sites in the Willamette Valley.

Sun Break Wine & Cider

Our small, family-run Sun Break Winery and Cidery produces distinctive Willamette Valley wines, vermouth and refreshing artisan cider in small batches. The quality of our wine and cider relies on sustainably-farmed high quality Willamette Valley grapes and apples.
The wines are crafted for complexity and intensity of flavor and aromatics in five styles: Colette, the most fruit focused of the three red wines, from 100% destemmed fermentations; Ariane, a lighter style red wine with savory notes, 100% whole cluster; Marie-Paule, a blend of two red Pinots for added depth and character; Nicolette, a white wine from Pinot Noir; and Marie, a rose’ of Pinot Noir.
The vineyard is dry farmed, and no herbicides or synthetic fertilizers or pesticides are used.

Whitetail Ridge Vineyard

Overlooking southern Oregon’s Umpqua Valley nearly a thousand feet below, Whitetail Ridge Vineyard is poised to take full advantage of the strong summer sun that warms the mineral-rich mountain soil throughout the day. In the evening, fresh breezes from the nearby Coastal range gently cool the fruit, allowing it to mature more slowly while it develops the distinct flavors and complex aromatics so highly prized from high elevation sites. We’re sure you will enjoy our “Wines of Elevation”.

Willamette Valley Vineyards

Jim Bernau’s vision of organizing wine enthusiasts to help build a world class winery in Oregon has, over time, resulted in Willamette Valley Vineyards being named “One of America’s Great Pinot Noir Producers” by Wine Enthusiast.
Our approach is to grow, by hand, the highest quality fruit using careful canopy management and yield balance, to achieve wines that are truly expressive of the varietal and the place where they are grown. We ferment and barrel each vineyard lot separately and display the best of these in our single vineyard designate bottlings. The wines are truly a collaborative effort of the entire vineyard and wine making staff.

*Tickets for Art Meets Wine in the High Desert LIVE! are non-refundable.