Posts Tagged: Feast Portland

I’ll Have What She’s Having

underwood wine coolers feast

On September 13th, 2018, we blasted back to the past for Feast Portland: 80s vs 90s. Feast Portland is one of the nation’s most beloved food & drink festivals, and is where we introduced our Underwood wine in a can back in 2013.

If you know us, you know we’re not afraid to mix our wines with other quality ingredients to create new wine drinking experiences.  We debuted our Riesling Radler wine cooler in 2017, but for Feast, we wanted to take things up a notch and and create a lineup of special wine coolers exclusive for the event.

Our enologist, Jeb, was up to the challenge and may or may not have cracked a few Zima’s to inspire the brainstorming process. After some trial & error, we landed on two limited edition wine coolers: the Ecto Cooler and Wu-Tang.

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The Ecto Cooler was questionably green, but don’t let that fool you – its taste was reminiscent of Hi-C, and the Feast attendees couldn’t get enough of it. It was the first keg we emptied and quickly became the drink everyone kept coming back for. Our other special edition wine cooler, Wu-Tang, was an effervescent version of the time-honored Fuzzy Navel that tasted just like a peach ring, but better. These wine coolers were served alongside What She’s Having (our Strawberry Cooler, temporarily rebranded) and the Cosmo Cooler (our Riesling Radler). 2,700+ pours later, our kegs, and our Union Wine Co. staff bartenders, were exhausted.

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We decked out our space with 80s and 90s ‘antiques’, or should we say, priceless relics borrowed from our Marketing Ops Manager Joan’s basement.

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As we brainstormed what Union Wine Co. would’ve been like if it was around in the 80s or 90s, we thought: weren’t we there all along?

 

Feast Portland, thanks for letting us relive our glory days. We’re still on cloud nine, and will continue to rock our canny packs around the Industrial Chateau – why did they go out of style, again?

dacn pinot noir underwood feast photo booth

 

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Photography by Adam Wickham

Feast your eyes on this

In honor of the second annual FEAST Portland, the biggest food and beverage event in Oregon, we’re going where no winery has gone before. As an official sponsor, instead of bringing the traditional cases of wine, we’re bringing a truck full. Introducing the newest member of the Union Wine Co. family – the Union Wine Tasting Truck:

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Our new baby is a vintage French Citroën H Van that we painstakingly restored to help us bring our wines out of the country and into the city. We were really drawn to the utilitarian design, functionality and old mechanical feel of the Citroën H Van. Embodying our pinkies down philosophy, it was love at first sight. If you’ve followed our story, we’re pretty proud of the place we call home, and we’re excited to connect to the “food cart culture” that Portland has become quite famous for. The newly re-purposed van is dubbed “The Union Wine Tasting Truck,” and will make its official debut at FEAST 2013. After that, stay tuned for a future announcement about the Portland hot spot we hope to call “home base” before too long.

Whenever you see this bad boy parked, you’ll likely find a happy member of the Union Wine Co. team ready to pour you a taste of our many wines and share our love of Oregon over a casual glass. Or slide you a can of our…oops, we’ve said too much.

Long story short, if you don’t have tickets for FEAST Portland 2013 yet, buy them. This is an event you won’t want to miss.