Rudy Marchesi has crafted his life around a world devoted to good farmhouse food.
Both professionally, as owner of a vineyard (Montinore Vinyards) and winery on 230 acres near Portland, Oregon, and in his personal life, with a nearby residence that he has carved out as a communal “little five acre food oasis”. Marchesi doesn’t use the word “artisan” to describe the types of foods he loves to grow, raise, craft or cook, he describes them simply as “good farmhouse food” that reminds him of his own childhood culinary experiences, and his families’ deep cultural connections to northern Italy.
