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and Wine Spectator Toasty Oak- That Flavor we Love (to hate?) Week 3 Nobody emailed, let's skip a few weeks and get back to this apparently not as burning (sic!) topic as I thought!
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Christina Kelly Neil Goldschmidt, former Governor of Oregon, Mayor of Portland, U.S. Transportation Secretary under the Jimmy Carter administration and executive of Nike is adding another title to his long list of achievements: wine producer. READ STORY HERE
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I always like a good story, and there's a great one behind Jimi Brooks' new "Runaway Red" Pinot noir 2001... He was apparently working behind Willakenzie Estate (his former employer) moving barrels of wine around, on that section of road that is real steep behind the winery--- it was after dark, and cold, and he was tired, and as he drove the tractor up to the barrel, to pick it up with the fork, he heard a metallic "snap!" and then, nothing happened, so he continued. Anyway, halfway around, the barrel fell off the tractor and rolled down the hill, through the fence, broke off the fence posts, through the vines, and landed in the creek! Miraculously, the bung stayed in! So here were Jimi and Laurent, Willakenzie's winemaker, and other people, wrestling this 65 gallon barrel out of the creek in the cold and rain, rolling it back up the hill (steep hill) in the dark (very steep hill). This barrel had a mind of its own!
Have
a wonderful Thanksgiving! Try the Coleman
Pinot gris, the Ankeny
Pinot Gris, the Ankeny Hershy's Red, or the
Sineann Gewurztraminer with turkey- all are wonderful
matches to Thanksgiving cuisine. News from Avalon- Happiest of turkey days to you all, we are open til 6PM on Wednesday and then again Friday from 10 to 6PM. Give us a call or email of you'd like to order- Jean will be monitoring the website on Thursday in case you email. Hope you are all well and enjoying life! Jean, Ann, Carl, Teresa, Christina, and Cole
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Chris
Camarda, whose Andrew Will Winery produces some of the highest scoring
Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux blends in Washington state
will be reducing his offerings in the next few years to concentrate
on blends from some of Washington's finest vineyards. If you'd like to try Chris's new Bordeaux blend "Champoux red Wine", previously known as his highly regarded Champoux Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, here's the tasting notes and info: Patty and Jim create silk purse from sow's ear Remember "Oregon Trail" Pinot noir, circa 1995? $9 a bottle, light, simple, basic, inexpensive but untterly undistinguished. The grapes for it came from Balcombe Vineyard, the ugly stepsister on Brehman Orchard Rd to Domaine Drouhin and Domaine Serenes' carefully managed vineyards. Move
forward seven years, and marvel at the changes wrought! Balcombe
Vineyard fruit makes some of richest, most complex, most
ageable Pinot noir in OR. The fruit for the highly sought "Notorious"
Pinot noir of PGCellars comes from this vineyard, as do their Balcombe
and Balcombe 1B pinots.
Ken Wright
2001 Pinot Noirs  Oregon Wine Report's 2000 Vintage Oregon Pinot Noir Issue available now! By
far the most complete and useful review of Oregon Pinot Noirs, OWR's
annual Pinot Noir report is essential for understanding the vintage.
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