Domaine Serene Winery Chef’s Dinner: Summiting in Lake Oswego
Ken and Grace Evenstad purchased the anemic remnants of a generics pharmaceutical company in 1969 for $1,500 and, with a dose of iron will, restored its circulation, and watched it swell into a billion-dollar corporation. Not sated by that success, they decided to start yet another pharmaceutical company, this time selling only one type of medication, the kind known to induce contentment, camaraderie, contemplation, connoisseurship, and jollity: wine. They founded Domaine Serene Winery in Dayton, Oregon, and, later, Maison Evenstad in Burgundy. Their wines are most definitely not generics.
