Item

The Cole Danehower Collection

• 1872-2016 (Creation)

16.71 linear feet

16.71 linear feet of articles, audio tapes, books, and photographs.

• English

• Latin

https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=lca_findingaids

Andrea Danehower donated the Cole Danehower Collection to the Linfield College Archives on March 16, 2016.

Cole Danehower was a prominent wine writer who focused on the industries of the Pacific Northwest. He began his wine-writing career shortly after moving to Oregon. From there, he expanded his knowledge of and involvement with the industry.

Before relocating to Oregon, Danehower resided in California where he worked in the marketing departments of various technology companies. He was enchanted with wine —though not California wine —and made the decision to move to Oregon to start anew. It was during his early time in Oregon that he met his wife, Andrea.

Danehower started the Oregon Wine Report in 1999. Along with the OWR, he also became the co-owner of Northwest Palate and continued to write for newspapers, including the Oregonian. While writing about the many facets of the wine industry was his main job, Danehower also participated in wine tastings and acted as a judge in several competitions. In 2003, Danehower was awarded the Appreciation Award from the Oregon Wine Advisory Board, and he received the James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for Most Outstanding Food and Wine Newsletter in North America in 2004.

Danehower's legacy includes Essential Wines and Wineries of the Pacific Northwest, a book focused on the wine regions of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia; “Pour the Passion,” a consulting business focused on wine communications and marketing; and the Cole Danehower Memorial Scholarship, aimed at helping students interested in studying wine at Oregon colleges.

• Citation: Cole Danehower Collection. Jereld R. Nicholson Library. Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon. Gift of Andrea Danehower, 16 March 2016.
• Processing information: Processed by archives technician Shelby Cook, with the assistance of archivist Rachael Cristine Woody, in 2017. Finding aid revised and input into AtoM in July and August 2023 by archives coordinator Alyssa Ralston.

LCSH

Input into AtoM by archives coordinator Alyssa Ralston beginning July 25 2023.

• Wine and wine making--Oregon
• Journalism
• Marketing
• Wine and wine making--Washington (State)
• Wine and wine making--Idaho
• Wine and wine making--British Columbia

• Oregon
• Oregon--Willamette River Valley
• Washington (State)
• Idaho
• British Columbia

• Danehower, Cole (Subject)

• Photographs
• Clippings
• Interviews
• Books
• Transcriptions
• Ephemera