Wine, Dine: Restaurant Guide 2014

Old grapes go well with everything.

Enso

1416 SE Stark St., 683-3676, ensowinery.com.

This urban winery is a tops of the new wave, from its urban-garagiste ambience to its affordable $5 Resonate reds and whites to $10 taster trays that range from full, fruity zinfandel to tannic, beautifully leathery mourvèdre; generous pours of vintage wines climb as high as $14 for those who want a more refined tipple. 


Noble Rot

1111 E Burnside St., 233-1999, noblerotpdx.com.

Leather Storrs' Noble Rot is a pretty rooftop wine spot looking out on both downtown and a conspicuous billboard. It offers full meals, but take your happy hour here and you'll get a house shiraz or chardonnay for $4—or a $12-to-$15 tasting flight—and the famed onion tart for $6.

Southeast Wine Collective

2425 SE 35th Place, 208-2061, sewinecollective.com.

The Wine Collective is a convocation of Portland urban wineries, including Division Winemaking Co., Helioterra Wines and Vincent Wine Co. Inside the dimly lit tasting room that doubles as a giant bottle rack, there are $2 tasters, $7 glasses and $23 bottles from member wineries, plus an $8 flight of tap wines and a $10 rotating flight.

 

Coopers Hall

404 SE 6th Ave., 719-7000, coopershall.com.

At 9,600 square feet, this new winepub in the industrial inner east side could double as a hangar for small blimps—though it's been amiably broken down into sip-sized spaces, with wood picnic tables and communal high-tops with stools. The wine program is young, but we were impressed with the house label's shapely 2011 pinot noir and we really loved a light and floral chardonnay. 

Remedy

733 NW Everett St., 222-1449, remedywinebar.com.

This cozy corner bar straddles the border between the Pearl District and Old Town but has its grape-stained feet firmly planted in the Old World. The wine list assembled by congenial sommelier Josh Wiesenfeld takes tipplers on a grand tour of Europe, but with enough stops in the Willamette Valley to satisfy the local-centric. And the $6 "Daily Antidote," often an interesting glass pour left over from a winemaker's tasting, is one of the best happy-hour deals in town.


Oso Market and Bar

726 SE Grand Ave., 232-6400, osomarket.com.

Former House Spirits distiller Colin Howard takes his bottle bar on a discriminating tour of the unfamiliar: wine regions often unexplored, obscure marks from known labels, and deals on wine undervalued in obscurity. Pull a flight for $15, choose from more than 25 wines by the glass, or get a sherry cocktail. 

Pix Patisserie

2225 SE Burnside St., 971-271-7166, pixpatisserie.myshopify.com.

Cheryl Wakerhauser's quirky Pix is a catalog of her obsessions: macarons in off-grid flavors, standup tapas, petanque courts, a wildly excursionary list of sherries and a meticulous, 250-entry sparkling wine list that just got tapped as the best in North America by a national magazine.

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