We make small batch, premium wines with love in Portland, Oregon

Who we are and what we do:

Hi friends, new and old, and welcome to our home on the web!

We’re RAM Cellars, and we produce small lots of premium, low intervention wines in SE Portland. It’s our honor and pleasure to share our work, our passion, and our dreams with you with every bottle. We’re also committed to using the platform we have through the winery to give back to communities we’re a part of! We do this through a $3 donation made from the sale of every bottle of our VIV label wines to one of our partner non-profit organizations, Portland’s Q Center, the Trans Lifeline, and Advocates for Trans Equity (the organization that The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund merged into), as part of our commitment to supporting and uplifting other queer and transgender folks.

Thanks for dropping by… we hope you’ll stay awhile!

Got Questions? Check out our FAQ!

Looking for our wines? Check out our online store!

Want to taste with us in person? Join us on for our Monthly Pop-Up tasting room residency at Mirrorball Northwest in SW Portland. Our usual schedule is the 3rd Saturday and Sunday of each month but please do check our events calendar for any updates! Mirrorball Northwest is located at 5529 S Hood Avenue in SW Portland.

Want to find out more about us? Read our history!

Did you know that we offer free local delivery or pickup in and around the greater Portland area?

Since 2020, we’ve been offering free local delivery in and around the greater Portland metro area - from Hillsboro to Washougal, Battleground to Boring… we’ve got you covered. You can shop our online store at the link below, and when you put in an Oregon or Washington address, free delivery is an available option as is free local pickup at our one-weekend-a-month Pop-up Tasting Room Residency at Mirrorball Northwest in SW Portland. Our usual schedule is the 3rd Saturday and Sunday of each month but please do check our events calendar for any updates! Once you order, our winemaker and founder Viv will reach out to coordinate your delivery or local pickup at our Pop-up Tasting Room. We’re happy to share our wines with you and can’t wait to deliver your wine to your doorstep or have it ready for pickup at our monthly Tasting Room Residency!

Our Wine

At RAM Cellars, we produce small lots of premium wines in Portland, Oregon. We work with sustainably managed grapes from vineyard sites in Oregon and Washington to craft our artisanal wines. We're passionate about what we do and strive to craft wines that highlight each varietal and vintage. We produce natural wines - native yeast ferments, minimal inputs, meticulous care in the cellar, and zero fining or filtration before bottling - and of course we limit our use of sulfites to the lowest level necessary to protect the wines for aging and shelf stability. We like to work with varietals and styles that are slightly off the beaten path - think single varietal Cabernet Franc, Skin Contact Riesling, Rosé of Tempranillo, etc. Wines in our current lineup include Riesling, Chardonnay, Gruner Veltliner, multiple Orange Wines, Tempranillo Rosé, Malbec, Cab Franc, Counoise, Tempranillo, a handful of sparkling wines and Pinot Noir.

The sale of every bottle of wine from our VIV label raises funds ($3 per bottle sold) for partner organizations who provide direct support to queer and transgender communities. Our current partners are Advocates for Trans Equity, Portland’s Q Center, and the Trans Lifeline! Consider enjoying this great wine knowing the incredibly important - and incredibly personal to us - cause that it supports! It's our pleasure and honor to share our wines with you, and we're grateful for the support and the opportunity to share our passion with you!

Taste our wines!

We host a monthly Pop-up Tasting Room Residency at Mirrorball Northwest, located at 5529 S Hood Avenue in Southwest Portland, on one weekend every month. And while we typically hold our Pop-up Tasting Room on the 3rd Saturday and Sunday of each month, we encourage you to check our events calendar to confirm, as well as recommend subscribing to our email newsletter to receive our monthly events bulletin and updates! Additionally, we will return to hosting our zoom-based Tasting Club later in 2026 (timing is TBD) and that does offer another option for tasting our wines with us via zoom! We’ll update you when we return to scheduling Tasting Club dates and in the meantime, we can ship our wine to most states!

Featured Wines

2024 Grüner Veltliner

Grüner Veltliner has been among our core white wine selections since we first started working with this cool-climate, aromatic and floral white varietal back in 2016. And while we had to take several years off of working with it from 2018-2021 due to a change in vineyard ownership at the site we work with, we are so glad to have this easy-drinking, delightfully low-ABV white back in the catalog.

Bosc pear, fresh plantain, fresh brioche, lime blossom and a hint of petrichor are evident at first sniff.  Pear, nectarine, lime zest, honeydew melon, fresh snow, lemon lime soda and a light herbaceousness dance above polished river rocks in glass en route to a dazzling finish.  Light and bright, our 2024 Grüner Veltliner tastes like summer.

This wine pairs well with pan fried trout, grilled veggies, soft cheeses, asparagus dishes, and sunny days and good times with the ones you love!

Wheatland Vineyard
Willamette Valley, OR
145 cases produced

2024 Orange Fraiche

Our 2024 Orange Fraiche is a delightful orange wine crafted with cool climate Washington Riesling grapes fermented on the skins for 25 days.

Orange-style wines are produced by fermenting white wine grapes in contact with the grape skins (and, in our case, the whole clusters including the stems as well).

The tannins extracted from the time on the skins and whole clusters give our orange style wines a body and mouthfeel similar to a lighter bodied red, while the typical acid-forward style of our Riesling brings a zesty, citrus packed punch that makes this the perfect year-round wine. It’s the ‘swiss army knife’ of food pairing wines thanks to that combination of additional body and bright acidity.

As far as tasting notes, cantaloupe, lemongrass, fresh snow, tangerine, & jasmine greet the nose, while elderflower, lemon balm, candied orange peel, starfruit, lemon hard candy, fresh oranges, & a hint of limestone await in glass. Like a spring sunset fading into tangerine dreams or straw spun into gold, it surprises and delights.

Crafted with a blend of Riesling from:

South Hill Vineyards

Underwood Mountain

Columbia Valley, Washington State

&

Crowe Vineyards

Benton City

Columbia Valley, Washington State

355 cases produced

2023 VIV label ‘Almost Red’

Viv, a French root word which means “to live / to be alive” also happens to be shorthand for our founder and head winemaker’s name. In her own words, she has this to say about the project:

“Having the courage to follow my truth and be myself means that I’ll be around for a long time to come. To be alive, indeed. And that I’ll be around for a long time means there’s more time to do good, meaningful things. $3 from the sale of every bottle of this wine will be donated to the Trans Lifeline, a grassroots hotline and microgrants 501(c)(3) non-profit organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. – a cause both incredibly personal and incredibly important to me - in an effort to provide support to other queer and trans folks.”

-Vivianne Stardust Kennedy, Winemaker

Our 2023 ‘Almost Red’ is a field blend co-ferment of 50% Marsanne, 40% Syrah & 10% Counoise. Named for its blend of equal parts red & white wine grapes, it surprises & delights with aromas akin to red wines but flavors in glass more closely resembling a white wine. Cranberry, brioche, apricot, fresh roses, cinnamon & nutmeg greet the nose while lemon hard candy, lilacs, melon rind, cherry blossom, lychee & a hint of limestone await in glass. Pairs well with quality time with the ones you love!

Bosma Estate Vineyard
Columbia Valley, Washington State
108 Cases Produced