Portland Wine Company "Mothershucker" 2024 Dry White Table Wine, Willamette Valley, Oregon

Summer is a great month for a fun, blended dry white wine like this.  It’s made by Matt Berson, who while working in the restaurant industry grew a passion for wine, then worked the vineyards in New Zealand, Napa Valley, Germany and Argentina before coming back to Oregon to make his own wine.  From the 2006 first release of 65 cases, he and his wife Angela Reat now produce up to 5,000 cases under the Portland Wine label, including this fun white wine, which we fell in love with at first sip.

Fashioned from dry Riesling, Pinot Gris and Sauvignon Blanc, it is

July is a great month for a fun, blended dry white wine like this.  It’s made by Matt Berson, who while working in the restaurant industry grew a passion for wine, then worked the vineyards in New Zealand, Napa Valley, Germany and Argentina before coming back to Oregon to make his own wine.  From the 2006 first release of 65 cases, he and his wife Angela Reat now produce up to 5,000 cases under the Love & Squalor label, including this fun white wine, which we fell in love with at first sip.

Fashioned from Riesling, Pinot Gris and Sauvignon Blanc, it is a playfully charming white wine with an appealing and distinctive aromatic character.  But we just couldn’t pinpoint to any particular variety.  The flavor is a charmer, too, tart apples and minerals, perhaps white peach?  There is a nice core of fruit following through to its pleasing, clean finish. 

The name implies this might be a good wine for shellfish, but I suspect many of you will shuck that and just enjoy this tasty glass of white on its own.  We’re told a portion of the proceeds of this wine goes to help endangered walruses.  If that’s true, the more you drink, the more you help those giant love bugs.

The name implies this might be a good wine for shellfish, but I suspect many of you will shuck that and just enjoy this tasty glass of white on its own.  We’re told a portion of the proceeds of this wine goes to help endangered walruses.  If that’s true, the more you drink, the more you help those giant love bugs.