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NW Wine News
"These
Pharmacists
dispensing more than Medicine"
“ Walla
Walla Attracts Pharmacists
to the
Wine Industry”
by Christina Kelly,
Avalon Editor/Writer
"Betz
Family Wines
Truly
a Family Affair"
by Christina Kelly,
Avalon Editor/Writer
The Avalon Hot Ten
Best Selling Wines this week
1. Bergstrom
"Cumberland" Pinot Noir 01 $29.99
Wine Spectator 92 points!
2 .L'Ecole
No. 41 Syrah 01
$37.99/$34.20
Best of Show,
NW Wine Summit 03
3. Bergstrom
Pinot Noir Rsv 2000
$29.99/26.99
Wine Spectator 90 points
4. Shea
Wine Cellars Pinot Noir "Homer" 2001
$64.99/$58.50
Wine Spectator 92 points
5.
McKinlay Pinot Noir
Special Select 00 $29.99
WIne Spectator rating
93 points!
*6. Cuneo Bordeaux Blend 99 $16.99
An absolute steal at this price- luscious!
7. Argyle
Pinot Noir 01 $16.99
Wine Spectator rating 91 points- Best Buy
8. Big Reds Club Membership
$66 a month plus shipping when purchased as a yearly subscription
9. Andrew Will Sangiovese
$30.00/27.00
from Ciel du cheval grapes- big, plush, delectable- Avalon employee fav!
10. Abacela
Tempranillo Reserve $45.99/41.39
Huge, dark, brooding, complex, cellar
for 15 years
*first week
on the list
Memorial Day Showcases
So. OR fruit
in No. OR Wine
"Del Rio Vineyards
are hot!"
Host
a Wine Tasting
This Summer!
Here's Avalon's guide
to hosting
a wine tasting
at your house
Jean's Kitchen Sink
What's on the sink?
Cat fur. Yes, cat fur. On everything. You ever had a nice veggie pizza with fresh herbs and a generous sprinkling of cat fur? Not. Well, the dog liked it. Oh, he's doing much better- the wonders of Glucosamine and John's help. Like the Fidelitas, John? Thanks to everyone who emailed.
The cats got vacuumed. Yes, there are 9 of them, and it was vacuum them or I'd be buried in fur. They're ok with it, although it offends their dignity.
It finally feels like summer, or close to it, and the window over the kitchen sink looks out on a lime green pasture below an intensely blue sky. There are three horses out there, back from their winter quarters, and one of them is expecting a baby next month- exciting!
The late spring here in Oregon has thrown back the clock at the farmer's market, and while you lucky east coasters are just about to harvest tomatoes, we NWesterners are still picking daffodils.... and leeks and shallots and oh wow, is that possibly- a rose bud on the bush? Maybe the Rose City's memorial Day festivities will have a few roses! At least my backyard will.
It's been another tough year for wild mushrooms, but Christina got a few morels last weekend and she served them with fresh salmon. Lucky husband Tim! They had the Spring Hill Uriah 01 last weekend- lucky lucky Tim!
I'm still using my dried chantrelles from two harvests ago, and made a lovely mushroom soup with dried chantrelles, wonderful local shallots sauteed in butter, chicken stock, and heavy cream. Yumm Yumm decadent and it was wonderful with Adelsheim Pinot Blanc.
Let me know if you think selling shallots would be a good thing- there's a grower here who has wonderful ones, full of flavor, and I just saw two little shallot bulbs at the garden center for $5.00 (seed shallots?) I buy a 55 pound bag of his shallots for $35... anybody want some? They're real heavy to ship, but maybe still a good deal if you can't find them anywhere.
Have a wonderful Memorial Day, and feel free to email us if you'd like some help with wine touring.
Jean
A
Memorial Day
One Day
Tour
of the Willamette valley
Big
Red Few Bucks!
Cuneo Cellars
Bordeaux Blend 99
$16.99
A steal at $30, this is a miracle at this price!
Come and see us
this Summer!
The summer weather here is wonderful, it's calm and rural and slow moving except in Portland and Seattle, the wine country is still farmland instead of Disneyland, you often get to taste wine with owners or winemakers, there's lots of outdoor activities, etc etc. In brief- this is a great summer to visit Oregon or Washington!
Email us if you are interested in coming out and let us know where you want to go, and we'll try to help with a little personal assistance- wher the locals go, places that don't show up in the guidebooks, etc.
Get Andy's
New Book
With A Case
Wine Order!
Coming in
June!
We'll be sending a free copy of Andy's new book with an order of a full case
of wine priced at $200 or more, starting June 1.
One book per person, please.
New Releases
updated
Oregon
Wine Regions -
New Section
Check out the New and Informative Oregon Wine Advisory Board WEBSITE!
Articles
from
past issues of this newsletter
5/15 Newsletter
5/8 Newsletter
4/25 Newsletter
4/25 Northstar Winery
4/16 Newsletter
4/9 Abacela
Interview
4/9 Newsletter
3/30 Patricia
Green Interview
3/30 Newsletter
3/29 Owen
Roe Quarterly Newsletter
3/25 Sineann,
interview with Peter Rosback
3/17 Allen
Shoup's
Long Shadows Winery
3/17 Newsletter
3/6 Cayuse
3/6 Newsletter
3/1 McCrea Cellars
3/1 Focus
on Syrah
3/1 Kitchen
Sink Syrah
3/1 Owen Roe
3/1 Sineann new
wines
3/1 Beaux Freres 2001
3/1 Elvenglade
sale
3/1 Newsletter
