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Community Wine Bar

Bridging the gap between accessible wine + marginalized communities. Open Thur-Sun in John’s Landing

05/15/2025

How to Support 🥂 Community Wine Bar might be closed, but the two wineries that created this unique space are still going strong! There are many ways to support RAM Cellars throughout the year:

📦 Purchase Wine Online | Explore all the small lot wines that RAM Cellars produces at the online shop. There you can discover an assortment of white, rosé, sparkling, orange, and red wines produced here in Portland, and even pick up a curated wine pack or two! Shipping is available nation wine, and delivery is free for any 3+ bottle purchase in the PDX area.

🪩 Join the Wine Club | If you miss how Viv hand-selected the perfect wine for you each time you visited CWB, the wine club is perfect for you! Viv curates each shipment to your preferences with special discounts and wine club-only releases.

🍷 Attend An Upcoming Event | Viv has many pop-up events across the West Coast each month featuring the newest RAM Cellar releases. You can support Viv at on Sunday, May 25 in McMinnville and celebrate pride on Sunday, June 15 in Portland!

🧢 Buy Merch | Show off your love of RAM Cellars wines with shirts, hats, stickers, and more! Did we mention that there are Sparkle Pony crop tops 👀

Visit the 🔗 in our bio to explore all the ways to support RAM Cellars, and make sure to follow to stay up to date on everything Viv is doing throughout the year.

05/14/2025

How to Support 🍷 Community Wine Bar might be closed, but the two wineries that created this unique space are still going strong! There are many ways to support Gonzales Wine Company throughout the year:

🥂 Purchase Wine Online | Browse the complete selection of Cristina’s wines on her website. From Gewürztraminer to Red Blends, choose your favorite current releases, and ship them right to your door.

🎟️ Attend An Upcoming Event | If you live in the PNW, Cristina often does pop-ups at different restaurants, wine shops, and wineries, pouring her newest releases.
📍Sunday, May 18 | NW Portland | Oysters & Wine 101 with Chef Maylin Chávez of and Elena Rodriguez of .oregon. This is an intimate seafood event where you can learn how to shuck an oyster and pair them with wines by featured winemakers!
📍Memorial Day Weekend | Seattle | Pouring at on May 22 and on May 23.

✨ Join the Wine Club | The best way to support the winery is by joining the wine club! The club starts at just three bottles twice a year, and includes special perks like wine discounts, event invites, and first access to new releases.

Visit the 🔗 in our bio to explore all the ways to support GWC, and make sure to follow to stay up to date on everything Cristina is doing throughout the year.

04/30/2025

With immense gratitude and a bittersweet heart, we—Cristina & Viv—bid you farewell.

CWB has been so much more than just a wine bar. It’s been a labor of love, a gathering place, a safe space, and a celebration of wine, identity, and connection.

From late-night prep sessions to laughter-filled tastings, from community conversations to the joy of pouring wines for new and familiar faces—we’ve poured our hearts into every moment. We built this space to center marginalized voices in wine, and the love and support we’ve received has meant everything.

As we step away from the bar, we’re filled with pride for what we created and deep appreciation for everyone who sipped, supported, and showed up. Thank you to our incredible community for believing in this vision and helping bring it to life.

This is not goodbye forever—just the closing of a beautiful chapter. We’ll still be around, cheering you on and dreaming up what’s next.

With all our love (& jazz hands forever!),
Cristina & Viv

04/27/2025

Today is the day! Viv and Cristina are here at Community Wine Bar on Sunday, April 27, from 1 - 6pm+, both behind the bar for our final day.

We have wines by the glass, tasting and bottle from both and and plenty of wine to take home with you! See you at CWB soon!

04/24/2025

It’s officially our final weekend that Community Wine Bar is open! We have been so grateful for all the support we have received this month online and in person. We will have more to say next week, but until then, let’s make this a weekend to remember!

Cristina will be behind the bar Thursday & Friday from 3 - 8 pm and Saturday from 1 - 8 pm, and Viv will be joining her on Sunday from 1 - 6 pm to toast to our final day! 🥂 We really hope to see you this weekend!

04/21/2025

Friends, as we head into our last week of service here at Community Wine Bar, we want to share a gigantic, special thank you to the folks - dear friends and family - who helped us bring CWB to life.

When we opened our doors in September of 2023 - literally the week before harvest 2023 was about to kick off - we had a lot of help thanks to the incredible humans who were there to help bring our vision for the space to life, and pour you the wine to cheers to a new start!

Our dear friend Tawn did SO MUCH to support the project, working with us twice a week from opening until February 2024, staying on as our Thursday wine-tender through the end of October 2024. Tawn, our talented, hardworking, knowledgeable friend and comrade in wine, was an integral part of bringing our vision to life and a vibrant part of the energy, space, and accessibility to wine that is CWB.

Our dear friend Elaise did SO MUCH to help us get things off the ground and established, helping us out behind the bar two days a week from our grand opening weekend through the end of 2023. Elaise, whom we both knew and had the pleasure of becoming friends with over the years, as a wine buyer and then a distributor rep helping sell both of our wines, not only brought her knowledge, kindness, and energy to the project but also was a massive support in Viv’s work to assess our space’s airflow metrics and COVID safety.

And last but not least, Aidan, Viv’s spouse, did SO MUCH to help us open and run Community Wine Bar. They helped out in a myriad of ways between behind-the-bar support as needed, behind-the-scenes work with Viv on our menus, and helping to cover the huge gap behind the bar from July through October of 2024 while Viv was recovering from last year’s major car accident - while taking care of our then-disabled partner in wine AND holding down their full-time job.

Please join us in thanking Tawn, Elaise, and Aidan from the bottom of our hearts for all that they brought to CWB! Community Wine Bar would not have been possible without their hard work and energy, and we are forever grateful for each of them!

04/17/2025

As we round the bend towards wrapping up our time hosting you at Community Wine Bar, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate and acknowledge the incredible local food vendors with whom we had the pleasure of partnering with! ✨ Our events wouldn’t have been the same without the featured bites and pairings crafted by these fantastic individuals. Make sure to give each of them a follow and go out to support them at future popups!

🦪 Nacar Oysters with 🍰 Here for the Cakes
🥘 Koop Kitchen
🍕 Pizza Papa PDX
🌮 Machetes .pdx
🍉 Euzumeh
🥪 OK Sandwiches
🧀 La Femme Fromage
🫔 Tamale Boy
🥮 Jen’s Pastries

04/14/2025

As we wrap up our time here at CWB, we want to highlight the guest wines from Oregon women, BIPOC, and 2SLGBTQIA+ winemakers we were fortunate to share in our space with since we opened.

🥂 Join us in giving one last cheers to these talented winemakers! Make sure to give them a follow to continue to support their work year-round!

– Babel Chillable Red
– Skin-Contact Pinot Grisoregon – Sparkling Rosé of Pinot Noir
– Bubbles
– ‘All Eyes’ Sparkling Rosé of Tempranillo
& – Maria De La Luz Pinot Gris
– Riesling Pet Nat
– Rosebay Cuvée
– Mezcolanzo Rojo
– Rosé Fizz

04/10/2025

Spring showers keeping you inside? 🌧️ Cristina is behind the bar this weekend with all your favorites for an overcast wine tasting. Brighten your day with some Orange wine, or embrace the season with a chilled red.

🍷 Looking for something new? Cristina will be pouring the 2022 Oasis Vineyard Malbec, the newest vintage in the lineup! A lively flavor profile and acidity bring a playful presence to this wine with an inviting royal burgundy in the glass. Though medium-light in body, the palate is delighted with raspberry crumble, cranberry sauce, and a mouthwatering finish.

Stop by CWB on Thursday & Friday from 3 - 8 pm, Saturday from 1 - 8 pm, and Sunday from 1 - 6 pm + if you miss Cristina this weekend, you can find her pouring next weekend at on Saturday, April 19.

04/02/2025

Dearest friends, customers, & community,

It’s with a heavy heart that we share with you today that Community Wine Bar will be closing its doors at the end of April, with our last day falling on Sunday, April 27.

We are so grateful for all of the support we have received, the collaborations we’ve hosted with fellow Oregon vintners of marginalized identities and food vendors, and especially the tasting experiences we shared with you– our friends, customers, and community. It has been our pleasure to have been able to offer accessible ASL & Spanish translated tastings, guest winemaker and food pop-ups, and a variety of events over our time in business.

The reality of the situation is that it’s an incredibly tough time right now for food and beverage businesses in Portland - and beyond - and that industry variability, combined with our location in a quieter Portland neighborhood, has meant that the economic outlook for our business in the long term was simply not viable. We are grateful to have been able to work out an exit plan with our landlord that we can work with, and we are looking forward to seeing your smiling faces and sharing wine with you for our CWB farewell tour this April.

As we prepare to close our doors at the end of this month, we humbly ask for your support to help us finish strong AND ask that you make it a point to get out and support your favorite spots, wherever they may be, in Portland. We believe in Portland’s food and beverage community and will look forward to each having more time to support other food and beverage businesses from the other side of the counter.

🍷 Our CWB Farewell Schedule:

- 4/3 - 6: Viv at CWB
- 4/10 - 13: Cristina at CWB
- 4/17 - 20: Viv at CWB (3/20 is the last Sketchy Sundays!)
- 4/24 - 26: Cristina at CWB
- 4/27: Last day with both Viv & Cristina!

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for everything. We could not have created this warm, welcoming, and accessible space for everyone to enjoy wine free from pretentious barriers if not for you.

With deepest thanks (and jazz hands forever),

Cristina Gonzales & Vivianne Kennedy, Proprietors and Winemakers at Community Wine Bar

03/28/2025

The weekend is here, and we have a glass of ready for you to enjoy! 🍷 Cristina is behind the bar until 8 pm, Saturday from 1 - 8 pm, and Sunday from 1 - 6 pm!

🦪 Don’t forget to join us on Saturday, March 29, from 3 - 7 pm to try the historic blend by Cristina and Elena Rodriguez of . Stop by to try the release of this unique blend alongside seafood platters by and delicious desserts by ! Look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

03/22/2025

Sketchy Sunday is BACK! 🎨 Join us this Sunday, March 23, from 3 - 5 pm for casual hangs and fun drawing prompts provided by . Want to draw a penguin director crying? How about a musical balloon laughing? Anything is possible when you stop by this Sunday!

Everyone is welcome to attend this event, and of course, we will have plenty of sips and snacks while you let loose and get creative.

Address

614 SW Dakota Street
Portland, OR
97239

Opening Hours

Thursday	1pm - 6pm
Friday	1pm - 8pm
Saturday	1pm - 8pm
Sunday	1pm - 6pm

Telephone

+19712843022

Website

http://communitywinebarpdx.com/

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