Rachel Starr (winemaker)

Rachel Rebecca Starr (1944-2005) was an American winemaker. After gaining a doctorate in political science, she began a career in the wine business, owning or co-owning several wineries. Great Wine Buys, the retail wine store she opened in Portland, Oregon, is still in operation.
Life and career
Starr was born in 1944. After graduating with a PhD in political science from the California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, in Arcata, California, she opened a retail wine store, named Great Wine Buys, in Portland, Oregon. As of June 2022, the store was still in operation.
She wrote The Recruitment of Men and Women Into Local Politics in Oregon in 1974.
In 1984, after sending a selection of her wines to Robert Parker, she became Oregon's representative for The Wine Advocate. Brown left in 1998, at which point it became known as Starr Winery.
Her health began to decline, and she closed the winery. A year or so before her death, she was the winemaker at August Cellars in Newberg, and selling her own wine under the label Rachel's Cellars.
Death
Starr died in 2005,<ref name=":0" /> aged 61.

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