RAM Cellars

Hi friends! Viv here to remind you that THIS WEEKEND is the May Mirrorball Northwest Tasting Room Residency! 🪩 This pop up we are featuring chillable reds, and in celebration of Oregon Wine Month, our Oregon wines.

🍷 Check out our featured wines and special 3 & 6 wine flights in the post! I can’t wait to share these wines with you (especially the 2023 VIV label Almost Red. It’s truly tasting so fantastic right now!)

See you this weekend, Saturday, May 16, 2 - 7 pm & Sunday, May 17, from 12 - 5 pm at 📍Mirrorball NW | 5529 S Hood Ave, Portland, OR 97239

See you soon! – Viv 🥂

SEATTLE FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS! 🪄🥂
Join us for an incredible collaborative food and wine pop-up at in Seattle’s Capitol Hill featuring five RAM Cellars wines, thanks to , alongside tacos by .gringos on Monday, May 11th, from 4 - 7 pm!

AND - in a move that makes my big, dorky heart so, so happy, we’ve dubbed this gathering “The Cloak & Stagger Tavern” and gone all in on a D&D theme for our event name and menu format! Unlike a traditional wine dinner, this gathering requires no advance reservations!

Tacos Gringos will have à la carte format street-style tacos for $3.50 each, with green chorizo, Goat, Lengua (tongue), and Peas and Carrots as taco options, and a delicious watermelon salad with jicama, mint, chili powder, and lime available as well!

As for wines, we’ve curated a special lineup of perfect pairs with tacos, including RAM Cellars Grüner Veltliner, Dry Riesling, Orange Fraîche, Cabernet Franc, and Sparkle Pony Red. Each of these wines will be available by the glass and bottle!

And while it’s not required to be a big ole dork like me, of course, I’d love to chat with you about your favorite DnD character class, favorite TRRPG, or favorite dinosaur, for that matter. When I am not moonlighting as a wine sorceress, I tend to lean towards bard or paladin class characters, centering social skills and healing as my preferred character archetypes!

I love connecting authentically with folks over food and wine, and this collaboration with my friends at Radio City Wine and Tacos Gringos made possible by the wonderful folks at Carrello, is a dream come true for me.✨

I can’t wait to share wine, tacos, laughs, and good times with you on Monday, May 11th, from 4-7 pm at our Cloak & Stagger Tavern pop-up at Carrello Seattle, located at 622 Broadway E on Seattle’s Capitol Hill.

Cheers,
🧙‍♀️ Viv

As we turn the corner into May - and Oregon Wine Month - we always take the time to reflect on the handful of our wines that we produce with Oregon-grown wine grapes.

While many of our wines over the years have been vinified from Oregon grapes, two of our core wines over the years have always been crafted with Oregon grapes:
🍷Our Pinot Noir - which we have crafted with fruit sourced from three different Willamette Valley sites and one site on the Oregon side of the Columbia Gorge.
🥂 Our Grüner Veltliner - made with grapes from a cooler climate site nested along the Willamette River.

Both wines have been beautiful reflections of each varietals’ expression in cooler climate Oregon sites. Over the years, we have crafted versions of our Tempranillo, Riesling, Gewurztraminer, and Pinot Gris-based wines with Oregon fruit as well.

✨ As for our current offerings of Pinot Noir and Grüner Veltliner: each is a delightful time capsule and love letter to the 2024 vintage!

Our 2024 Grüner Veltliner is a light, easy- drinking, moderate ABV “Porch Pounder” white. Softer and lemon-lime citrus forward, it’s one of our favorite spring/summer white wines that we make.

And our 2024 Pinot Noir, crafted with 100% Pommard clone, Chehalem Mountains fruit from our friends at Bells Up Estate Vineyard, is a richer, riper take on our classic lighter-bodied Pinot Noir style that has ample structure and savory notes balanced with cherry cola, blueberry, and raspberry fruit notes in the glass!

It doesn’t just stop at where we harvest our grapes! RAM Cellars has always been a Portland urban winery, crafting wine in different corners of Portland. No matter where the grapes are grown, all of RAM Cellars’ wines are part of the Oregon wine story.

– Cheers to Oregon wine!, Viv

🌎 Where is the world is Viv this May? Probably at a wine shop, grocery store and first Pride event of 2026 close to you! 🚙🍷 Come out and share a glass with Viv from Portland to Seattle!

🌼 Upcoming May Events 🌼

Friday, May 1st, 2-5 pm | Progress Ridge New Seasons pouring Grüner Veltliner, Sparkle Pony Red, Merlot, Petit Verdot, and Tempranillo!

Doubleheader on Saturday, May 9!
11 am-2 pm | Belmont Market of Choice pouring Roussanne, Orange Fraîche, Almost Red, and Sparkle Pony Red!

3-6 pm | Arbor Lodge New Seasons pouring Grüner Veltliner, Orange Fraîche, Merlot, and Sparkle Pony Red!

Monday, May 11, 4pm-7pm Tacos Gringos & RAM Cellars Collab pop-up wine and tacos collaboration at pouring Grüner Veltliner, Dry Riesling, Orange Fraîche, Cabernet Franc, and Sparkle Pony Red!

Saturday, May 16 - Sunday, May 17 | RAM Cellars Tasting Room Residency at featuring our favorite chillable reds AND our wines crafted from Oregon wine grapes, our Pinot Noir and Grüner Veltliner.

🏙️ Late–May Seattle Run May 28 - 30!

Thursday, May 28, 6pm-9pm | Wine dinner at

Friday, May 29, 5pm-8pm | ‘Fete Orange’ Wine Release event featuring 4 RAM Cellar wines and a custom collab label.

🏳️‍🌈 Saturday, May 30, 3pm-6pm | Wine & Wigs q***r wine event at Birch Road, First Hill in Seattle

Hope to see you for a month of wine, connection and community! Cheers, from our table to yours, friends!

Viv had worn many hats behind many bars, but this one is particularly special! ✨ This week, Viv is camping out in Seattle at from Wednesday, April 22rd and Thursday, April 23th, 3 - 9 pm as a Guest Winetender.

Lucy’s Bottle Shop in Seattle’s Lower Magnolia Neighborhood is one of Viv’s favorite places in Seattle, so naturally, she jumped at the chance to support the community! She will be pouring a lineup of RAM Cellar wines alongside a couple of Lucy’s featured wines.

🥂 This is your chance to chat over a glass with the maven of mirth herself! It’s going to be a really fun couple of days over at this local Seattle spot, and we hope to see you there!

Daydreams of wading in the velvet sea…Sounds like Malbec to us! 💭🍷 Hi friends! Viv here to jump in to celebrate and shine the spotlight on the 2023 Malbec.

✨ Why I Love Malbec: It’s the quintessential red wine in my opinion. I’ve always had an affinity for the ‘undersung’ Bordeaux red varietals (read: everything but Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot), and Malbec has been a core part of what we do at RAM Cellars since our maiden voyage during the 2014 vintage. Malbec brings a richness, a depth, and a complexity to the function that I admire and aspire to bring myself, and I love every expression of it. I make ours with 100% whole cluster ferments, sourcing grapes from Washington’s Rattlesnake Hills AVA, in an effort to showcase the richer side of Malbec!

✨ What Everyone Loves About The Malbec: This wine pairs with casual get-togethers of hamburgers, stuffed peppers, creamy mushroom sauce pasta, and blue cheese. If you love well-worn leather, lilacs, ripe raspberries, plums, and black cherries, this win++e is for you!!

We will have both the 2023 AND 2022 Malbecs open at and available for sale at our April Mirrorball Northwest Tasting Room Residency on Saturday, April 18, 2 - 7 pm & Sunday, April 19, 12 - 5 pm. 📍Mirrorball NW | 5529 S Hood Ave, Portland, OR 97239

See you this weekend! Cheers, friends, VIV

https://www.ramcellars.com/shop/2023-malbec

Searching for warm summer nights with a salmon pink hue in a glass? 🌸 May we introduce: The 2025 Forbidden Cats Label Rosé of Grenache!

This wine is everything: Fuji apple, honeydew, jasmine, with echoes of fresh pears greet the nose, while cantaloupe, violets, and lychee await in the glass. If you are dying to get a taste, your chance is sooner than you think! ✨See below ✨

🪩 April Mirrorball Northwest Tasting Room Residency 🪩 
Saturday, April 18, 2 - 7 pm & Sunday, April 19, 12 - 5 pm.

Embrace everything we love about springtime in the Pacific Northwest, with special flights featuring our new release Orange Fraîche + Forbidden Cats label Rosé of Grenache! 🌸 Plus, plenty of other three and six-wine flights!
📍Mirrorball NW | 5529 S Hood Ave, Portland, OR 97239

Hope to see you this weekend! – Viv

The Pacific NW is in bloom 🌷and our NEW spring wines are here to pair with sunny afternoons on the porch, and picnics with friends. 🥂 New releases of our Orange Fraîche and Forbidden Cats label Rosé are fresh and fun picks that we recommend!

For bigger gatherings, we recommend trying our White Wine 4 Pack, Spring new release wines twin pack, Chillable Reds 4 pack, or our Aidan’s Picks 4 Pack. + All multi-packs qualify for complimentary delivery in the PDX area!

https://www.ramcellars.com/shop

We can’t wait to share some new release and fresh assorted multipacks with you! Visit our webstore to get your next round of RAM Cellars wines on the way and we’ll make sure you’re set up for good times to come with dear friends on sunny days ahead! 🥂 Cheers friends!