B2 THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2022
BUSINESS & AG LIFE
Winery
Continued from B1
he continued to work nights
while taking basic courses at
the community college during
the day. His math teacher
would wake him up in the
parking lot at 7 a.m. She and
her mother are now Cerebella
wine club members.
Zimmel’s higher education
was interrupted by deployment
to Iraq just nine months after
getting back from Afghanistan.
“I was an older student,” he
said. “I forgot a lot. I had to
take chemistry over again.”
He transferred to Washing-
ton State University’s wine-
Yasser Marte/East Oregonian
making program at its Tri-Cit-
Cerebella Winery Wine Club marketing manager Michele Metcalf, left,
ies campus, while still working
and Rooster Country Kitchen and Cerebella co-owner Bill Code host a
Yasser Marte/East Oregonian
at night to support his family.
“While in school, I couldn’t
Vern Sandy, Cerebella Winery assistant tasting room manager, is ready to pour a variety of wine Thursday, wine tasting Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, while savoring a glass of their
Nov. 10, 2022, at the winery in downtown Pendleton.
afford to waste a single min-
latest wine at Cerebella Winery in downtown Pendleton.
ute,” he said.
Zimmel graduated in 2014,
stressful. For months in the
net sauvignon brandy.
but he’d already released his
depths of the pandemic, Roost-
He said he hopes to ex-
first label, a Malbec, in 2013.
er’s staff fell to three, providing pand his offerings from the
“It won a couple of gold
takeout orders.
present 12 wines to 20, and
medals,” he said.
“We managed to keep the
Michele Metcalf, wine club,
Amy Code Madden, man-
business going, so that the rest tasting room and mar-
ager of her family’s Roost-
of the staff had jobs to return
keting manager, a 14-year
er’s Country
to,” Zimmel
industry veteran, aims to
Kitchen restau-
said. “It changed enlarge Cerebella’s mem-
“Pendleton made
rant in Pend-
the way we do
bership.
perfect sense for a
leton, brought
business. Take-
Rooster Country Kitchen
Zimmel to
winery. Geographically, out orders are
and Cerebella co-owner
Pendleton after
still a significant
it’s in the cradle of
Bill Code joins the wine
they became
share, higher
tasting
Thursday, Nov. 10,
romantically
than
before
Columbia Valley
2022, to grab a glass and
involved. His
COVID.”
vineyards. Pendleton has Now inflation
discuss their latest bottles
business part-
at Cerebella Winery in
ners are her
and
high
inter-
been very supportive. est rates have
downtown Pendleton.
parents.
The city removes
“Pendleton
Yasser Marte/East Oregonian
slowed building
made perfect
plans.
roadblocks rather than
sense for a win-
“We hoped
Computer not
Are you running an
ery,” Zimmel
setting them up, from the to add a pa-
said. “Geo-
tio for outdoor
running as
outdated
Windows
mayor on down.”
graphically, it’s
wine-tasting,”
fast as when
Operating System?
in the cradle of
Zimmel said.
— Robb Zimmel,
it was new?
We’ll
help
you
Columbia Val-
“But now our re-
winemaker and co-owner
ley vineyards.
modeling proj-
Let us install
avoid critical
of Cerebella Winery
Pendleton
ects will have to
lightning-fast
issues by installing
has been very
be step by step.”
solid state drive!
Windows
11!
supportive. The city removes
Zimmel creates his
roadblocks rather than setting
award-winning wines with
them up, from the mayor on
grapes using several variet-
down.”
ies from the broad Colum-
Zimmel said he was happy
bia Valley American Viticul-
to trade the trauma of para-
tural Area, including some
medic work for an environ-
from the Red Mountain AVA
ment in which people have
within it. He makes red blends
smiles on their faces. Yet since
of three or four varieties and
the coronavirus struck, the
blueberry dessert wine by
restaurant business has been
blending berries with caber-
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