Rachel Starr
| Rachel Starr | |
|---|---|
| Born | Rachel Rebecca Starr 1944 |
| 2005 (aged 60–61)2005 (aged 60–61) | |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 📆 Years active | ?–2005 |
Rachel Rebecca Starr (1944–2005) was an American winemaker. After gaining a doctorate in political science, she began a career in the wine business, owning or co-owning several wineries. Great Wine Buys, the retail wine store she opened in Portland, Oregon, is still in operation.
Life and career[edit]
Starr was born in 1944. After graduating with a PhD in political science from the California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, in Arcata, California, she opened a retail wine store, named Great Wine Buys, in Portland, Oregon.[1] As of June 2022, the store was still in operation.[2][3]
She wrote The Recruitment of Men and Women Into Local Politics in Oregon in 1974.[4]
In 1984, after sending a selection of her wines to Robert Parker,[5] she became Oregon's representative for The Wine Advocate.[1] She then opened a small winery in the Portland neighborhood of Linnton. There, under the Linnton wine label, she produced barrel-fermented chardonnay and pinot noir.[1]
Starr opened Starr & Brown with former lawyer Eric Brown in 1991. It was located at 10610 NW St. Helens Road in Portland.[6] Brown left in 1998, at which point it became known as Starr Winery.[7]
Starr later became partners with Bob Hanson to establish Starr Winery, which was based at her property Newberg.[1][8]
Her health began to decline, and she closed the winery. A year or so before her death, she was the winemaker at August Cellars in Newberg,[7] and selling her own wine under the label Rachel's Cellars.[1] She trained her successor, Jim Schaad, who became the winemaker in 2004. Schaad died in the role in 2020, from complications of a recurrence of lymphoma.[9]
Death[edit]
Starr died in 2005,[1] aged 61.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Rachel R. Starr (1944-2005)". www.oregonwinehistory.com. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ↑ "Great Wine Buys". Great Wine Buys. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ↑ Alberty, Michael (2022-08-31). "Oregon wine industry says goodbye to Russ Rainey, Evesham Wood co-founder". Oregonian/OregonLive. Retrieved 2023-01-14.
- ↑ Starr, Rachel Rebecca (1974). The Recruitment of Men and Women Into Local Politics in Oregon. Search this book on
- ↑ Stursa, Scott (2019). Oregon Wine: A Deep-Rooted History. Arcadia Publishing. p. 112. ISBN 9781439666883. Search this book on
- ↑ Eight Annual International Pinot Noir Celebration, McMinnville, Oregon, 1994 program - Linfield University, 1994
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Winemaker - August Cellars". www.augustcellars.com. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
- ↑ The Gourmet's Guide to Northwest Wines and Wineries. Speed Graphics. 1998. p. 131. ISBN 9780961769987. Search this book on
- ↑ "Jim Schaad (1959–2020)". www.oregonwinepress.com. Retrieved 2022-06-30.
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