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Wine Lecture Series

Marka and Thomas Hughes Endowed

Wine Lecture Series

Linfield University's Wine Lecture Series is supported by the Marka and Thomas Hughes Endowed Wine Lectureship Fund, providing for wine-themed lectures, panel sessions, roundtable discussions and films that feature speakers and filmmakers from Oregon and around the world.


These events are free and open to the public.

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Amanda Higgins speaking with an attendee at her spring Wine Lecture Series.

Spring 2023

The Future of the Wine Industry with Amanda Wittstrom Higgins

Amanda Wittstrom Higgins, founder and principal of Full Cup Solutions and Dream Big Darling, joined the Linfield Center for Wine Education for a discussion about the future of the wine industry. Higgins shared her path as a young professional pushing for change in a traditional environment and why she's committed to amplifying new voices in the wine space.

Meet Amanda

Revisit past wine lecture series events

  • Open House and Conversation with Sandra Taylor

    The Oregon Wine History Archives and the Linfield Center for Wine Education presented an open house and conversation with Sandra Taylor. Guests toured the wine archives at Linfield followed by a conversation with Sandra Taylor, author, columnist and expert in sustainable certification of wine and coffee.

    Meet Sandra Taylor

  • Women & Wine: A Black Woman’s Story

    A guest panel of Black women winemakers including Chevonne Ball of Dirty Radish wine tours, Justin Trabue, assistant winemaker at Lumen Wines and Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein of Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein Winery. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in honor of Black brilliance in wine as part of Linfield's Black History Month celebration. Moderated by Dr. Jennifer Madden, dean of Linfield’s School of Business.

    View the recording

  • Black & Wine: A Black Man’s Journey to Wine

    Bertony Faustin of Abbey Creek Vineyard and Marcus Johnson of FLO Wines discussed the industry in light of recent events, individual winery projects and how they came to the world of wine. This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in honor of Black brilliance in wine as part of Linfield's Black History Month celebration. Moderated by Dr. Jennifer Madden, dean of Linfield’s School of Business.

    View the recording

  • A Conversation with Jancis Robinson MW

    Jancis Robinson, one of the world’s leading wine writers, joins the Linfield Center for Wine Education for a special virtual conversation on all things wine. Robinson was voted the world’s most influential wine critics in polls in the U.S., France and internationally in 2018. She writes daily for JancisRobinson.com and weekly for the Financial Times. She is the founder-editor of The Oxford Companion to Wine, co-author with Hugh Johnson of The World Atlas of Wine and co-author of Wine Grapes. Each of these books is recognized as a standard reference worldwide.

Questions?

For more information about Linfield's Wine Lecture Series, please contact the Linfield Center for Wine Education.

Lisa Munson
Administrative Assistant and Event Coordinator
Linfield University Center for Wine Education
503-883-2243
lmunson2@linfield.edu