Our Participating Chefs, Winemakers, and Artisans
Wine Makers
JP Valot (He/Him/His)
Valcan CellarsValcan is our creative outlet, a representation of our family, heritage, and vision for the future. It is our legacy and a tradition we hope to pass on to our children and share with our customers.
JP Valot is a modern winegrower and hospitality entrepreneur bridging vineyard stewardship, winemaking, and cultural experiences between Argentina and the Pacific Northwest.
Adrian Cornejo
Nueva AventuraOver 20 years experience in the industry has blossomed into an adventurous selection of handcrafted, all natural & authentic wines sure to please your palate!
Using low intervention, traditional, sustainable & organic vineyard methods and natural-fermentation wine production encapsulates the essence of the areas where the grapes are grown within each hand picked cluster.
Gabriel Jagle
Gabriel Jagle is the winemaker at Scenic Valley and, honestly, a total wine nerd in the best way. He may be the only Brazilian winemaker in the alley, bringing his own perspective and a lot of curiosity to what they’re doing at the farm. They’re having fun experimenting too, using Oregon oak for barrel aging, playing around with carbonic maceration, and making orange wines.
Elena Rodriguez
3rd generation farmer. 1st generation Mexican American. Founder of Alumbra Cellars and co-founder of Latino Makers Food & Wine.Elena's story starts with her father, Baudelio Rodriguez, who immigrated from Durango, Mexico to Oregon in 1996. By 2005, that land held rows of Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris. Elena grew up on that soil and today, she's the one crafting the wine, carrying her father's vision forward as one of the few Latina winemakers in the Pacific Northwest.
Cesar Medina
Born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, César Medina Maldonado has called the Willamette Valley home since arriving in 2019. A former restaurant chef and trained sommelier, César has spent more than a decade cultivating a passion and curiosity for wine, learning from some of the Willamette Valley’s most celebrated winemakers, including Véronique Drouhin, Jim Anderson, and Jason Lett, as well as completing an assistant enology internship at Bodegas Granbazán in Rías Baixas, Spain.
Aurora Cória
Aurora is the daughter of Luis and Janice Coria, the owners of Coria Estates. Rori, as her family and friends call her, grew up helping her folks working in the vineyard and behind the scenes in the administrative side of owning a 60 acre vineyard. She didn’t always know she wanted to be a winemaker, but when her mom prompted her with the question, “Maybe it’s time to start our own label?” At that moment the choice was so obvious! Rori was working in Public Health in Portland Oregon at that time; which had been her first passion; but that conversation with her family was the beginning of an entire life change. Rori decided to go back to school and study Winemaking, and in a few short years, Coria Estates had their first crush under label in 2013!
Cristina Gonzalez
Cristina Gonzales is the granddaughter of migrant farm workers from Texas who moved to Wisconsin to pick cherries in search of a better life. Her passion for wine began during a 2004 backpacking trip through South America, leading her to Mendoza, Argentina. After gaining hands-on experience across California, Oregon, Tasmania and Australia, she founded Gonzales Wine Company in 2010. Today, she creates minimal-intervention wines from Oregon and Washington grapes and advocates for representation in the wine industry. Cristina serves on the Oregon Wine Board and coordinates AHIVOY.
Friday Vineyard Dinner Chefs
Maylin Chavez
Gary Marmanillo
Ricardo Antunez
Saturday Convivio Chefs
Dustin Joseph (He/Him/His)
Biscuit & Pickles Catering is the creation of Chef Dustin Joseph. After 26 years in the restaurant industry as an executive chef and restaurateur all over the country, he sought to expand his culinary freedom and celebrate food the way it should be celebrated: simple and delicious. It's our philosophy that food should taste great and bring us all together!
Mario Aranda
Shaped by the cuisines of South, Central, and North America, Mexican chef Mario Aranda explores the relationship between geography, culture, and history through food. He views each plate as a canvas where every ingredient carries meaning, and flavor becomes the language that tells the story of a place and its people.
Ricardo Antunez
Restaurant kid at heart, restaurateur, and co-founder of Latino Makes Food & Wine.Growing up in Northern California surrounded by farmland, some of Ricardo's earliest memories are of harvesting tomatillos alongside his uncles. Today, living in Oregon, he sees many of those same landscapes reflected in the Willamette Valley.
Samuel Sangabriel
Artisans
Alicia De Jesus Hernandez
Alicia De Jesus Hernandez is an artist who works with red clay, drawing inspiration from her roots in Oaxaca, Mexico. Through the material, she explores themes of heritage, memory, and identity, while honoring the beauty and intimacy of traditional craft. Her work invites others to connect with their own roots, memories, and sense of home, serving as a reminder that clay can hold our stories and connect us to the places, people, and traditions that shape who we are.
Orox Leather Co
Orox Leather Co. is a fourth-generation family leather business rooted in Oaxaca, Mexico, and reimagined in Portland, Oregon. Founded by master leatherworker José Martínez and his son Martín, Orox grew from a garage workshop into a Portland institution, bringing generations of craftsmanship, family tradition, and cultural heritage to every handmade piece.