Save the date!
The LIVE Annual Meeting is a virtual meeting that is free for all to attend.
LIVE's annual board meeting for members includes membership, financial, and program updates, as well as changes to vineyard and winery standards for 2025.
Registration & Zoom meeting details to come.
With the recent acquisition of WineDirect by Commerce7, many winery proprietors have questions about how the transition will affect their websites. Vin Agency is offering a free webinar, in partnership with industry colleague Carisen Randing, to discuss the transition. We will be fielding questions about:
- Winery e-commerce options
- Commerce7 capabilities vs WineDirect
- Migrating a website to Commerce7 from other platforms
- And more!
Join us on Tuesday, April 9th for a free webinar moderated by Vin Communications Director Katherine Cole, and featuring the expertise of Jon Krauss Creative Director of Vin Agency, and Carisen Randing of CR Winery Services.
Questions? Reach out to Katherine Cole at katherine@vinagency.com
Join our very first Fermenter meetup on July 1 from 11-12 online via Zoom!
This first meeting will serve as a time for us to introduce our vision for these monthly collaborative sessions and to hear your feedback on how these can best serve you and your needs.
What is The Fermenter?
The Ferementer is a LIVE community think tank for marketing sustainable wine. We are hosting a regular series of collaborative sessions for LIVE members to discuss identity, branding, marketing, sales, and anything else that may help you to communicate your sustainable efforts to your customers. Meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of each month and serve as a space where we can bring together ideas, hurdles, and wins, creating opportunities for inspiration, support, and the potential for us to collaborate on larger campaigns and marketing projects for sustainable wine.
As a part of certification requirements, vineyards & wineries seeking LIVE certification are required a yearly on-site inspection in the first two years of the program and an inspection once every three years following that.
On August 15th we are opening up the LIVE inspection of Quail Run Vineyards for public viewing. Come learn about LIVE certification and watch a real inspection with one of our third-party inspectors.
After the inspection, LIVE will be there to answer questions and share more information on the program.
Join Willamette University Professor and behavioral ecologist David Craig for a short bird walk in the Oregon white oak grove of LIVE Certified Left Coast Estate and hear from LIVE to learn more about our Growing Oaks project and how you can get involved. At 3:00 PM, we have reservations for a wine tasting and the option of ordering pizzas on their patio, under the cover of oaks. Music and a small natural dye workshop with oak galls to follow.
Join us! To register, email Rose Grimson at rmgrimson@willamette.edu.
Join The Fermenter monthly meetup! Next meeting on October 7 from 11-12:30 online via Zoom In our first three sessions, we dove into hurdles discussing problems that get in the way of telling a strong collective story for our sustainable wine industry. These sessions were energetic with great feedback and ideas. Last meeting we started brainstorming next steps for a collective marketing campaign.
Our next October 7 meeting will be a little different than normal! As requested by the group, I will be hosting a LIVE Tastemaking Training for the group. This is a 1 hour presentation with room for questions and a short exercise at the end where break down the history of LIVE, the perimeters of our program, walk through a variety of LIVE examples in practice, and share ways to talk about LIVE with consumers. This is open to any and all to attend and we encourage all the questions.
What is the Fermenter? The Ferementer is a LIVE community think tank for marketing sustainable wine. We are hosting a regular series of collaborative sessions for LIVE members to discuss identity, branding, marketing, sales, and anything else that may help you to communicate your sustainable efforts to your customers. Meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of each month and serve as a space where we can bring together ideas, hurdles, and wins, creating opportunities for inspiration, support, and the potential for us to collaborate on larger campaigns and marketing projects for sustainable wine.
Updated Rain Plans!
Due to rain forecasts, we are moving this event from Left Coast Estate to our greenhouse located at Stirling Fox Wine Grapes in Dayton, Oregon. This will be way more productive and fun as the Left Coast site is not covered. Thanks to our Van Duzer Vineyards acorn-collecting team we have plenty of acorns to pot on Saturday!
Time: Saturday, October 25 | 9:30 - 12:30
We will provide bagels and coffee. Bring water and extra snacks as you need.
Address:
Stirling Wine Grapes, Inc. | Art Off the Vine
15150 SE Wallace Rd, Dayton, OR 97114
Parking: Please carpool if you can to limit cars on the property. You may park in the front lot and walk over to the greenhouses. We'll be there to show you the way.
What to bring:
- Gardening gloves if you have. We will have a few pairs.
- Gardening spades and/or shovels if you have. We have a lot of volunteers this go around!
- Warm shoes that can get muddy. I like to bring a second pair to change into after
- Water bottle
- Extra food/snacks if you need. We will provide coffee and bagels
Feel free to call, text, or email with any questions!
Isabelle Tobe | 503-717-2261| isabelle@livecertified.org
What is Growing Oaks? We've set a goal to plant 11, 000 acorns a year! Learn more at livecertified.org/oaks
Our first batch of two-year-old Oregon white oaks from our Growing Oaks project are ready to be planted! We will be hosting two Growing Oaks pick-up days at Argyle:
- Sunday, November 2 | 1-4 pm
- Wednesday, November 19 | 2-5 pm
We will give away one free pot to every LIVE member who wants one. Additional saplings are available for a suggested donation of $20 per tree to support the LIVE + Willamette University Growing Oaks project.
We have roughly 500 saplings ready this Fall and will distribute as supplies last (with many more currently growing to be available for next Fall – should have 3,000+ available by then.)
Interested?
Fill out this form to order your tree(s) + let us know which pickup day works for you. We will take payment during the pickup.
For bulk purchases (50+ trees), email isabelle@livecertified.org to ensure we have enough saplings. If you are outside of the Willamette Valley and interested in saplings, email Isabelle to coordinate.
The LIVE reporting website has a fresh new look! Thanks to your feedback, we’ve made several updates to the reporting portal to improve your experience. Don’t worry – the navigation remains the same. The updates focus on clearer design and a more user-friendly layout.To help you get familiar with the changes, we’re hosting a webinar on November 5th from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM. During this session, we’ll walk you through the new features and answer any questions you may have.
If you have questions in advance, feel free to reach out at isabelle@livecertified.org.