Amira Makansi: Oral History Interview

The Oregon Wine History Archive Podcast

This interview is with Amira Makansi of Stoller Wine Group. In this interview, Amira speaks about discovering wine and getting excited initially about wine production. She talks about her first wine internship at Benton Lane Winery in 2010, and about discovering her love of the Willamette Valley

From there, she also talks about her parallel career as a successful author - first writing a trilogy with her mother and sister, and later solo. She discusses her writing process and favorite parts of creating stories.

Then she talks about her pivot into the marketing side of the industry, and how she came to work at Stoller. She talks about what she's done so far and what the future may hold.

This interview was conducted by Rich Schmidt on June 14, 2024 at Stoller Vineyard in Dayton.