Avalon
201 SW 2nd Street
Corvallis OR 97333
541-752-7418
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Mini tour of
Avalon Farm

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541-752-7418

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Address:
201 SW 2nd Street
Corvallis OR 97333

Store hours:
Monday 12-6PM
Tues -Fri 10-6PM
Sat 11-6PM
Sun closed but try us
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About Avalon the Store and Website

Avalon started 14 years ago as a bed and breakfast in the Oregon wine country, then evolved into a retail store in Corvallis, OR, where it continues today. I put our products on the web in 1999, here we are in cyberspace!

Housed in a hundred year old historical building, the Corvallis Arms Hotel, Avalon is a wine and gourmet shop focusing on Oregon and Northwest wines and gourmet foods. We also have a web site office in rural Alpine, in a 102 year old farmhouse in the middle of the foothills of the coastal range, just south of Green Peak Mountain, west of the Willamette Valley wine growing region.

Avalon of Oregon, the store, has hosted Oregon, Washington, and California winemakers and has offered a popular Saturday food and wine tasting at the store for over ten years. Avalon publishes a weekly wine email newsletter, hosts a monthly wine tasting club, and offers periodic beginning, intermediate, and advanced classes on aspects of wine.

Avalon also hosts frequent Oregon gourmet food tastings and ships Oregon gourmet products from over 100 different Oregon businesses to customers around the world.

Personnel

Ann Crowley
Store Manager
Ann is both a superb chef, coming to us from Magenta Restaurant, a popular Asian-fusion cuisine hot spot, and an experienced wine geek. Previous to working as a chef, Ann worked at two popular wine shops in Seattle. Ann tries almost all the wines that come into Avalon, she attends frequent barrel tastings at Oregon wineries, and is up on all the lastest releases and wineries.

Ann has extensive knowledge of wines from all over the world, especially northwest wines. Ask her about food and wine matches- she'll come up with a great combo. Ann also manages the Avalon deli.

Ann has a cat named Maxwell, who enjoys Ann's cooking. She has a boyfriend named Ward who also enjoys her cooking and her sunny personality.

Christina Kelly
Avalon Staff Writer

For more than 20 years, Christina Kelly worked as a newspaper reporter on the West Coast, covering education, public safety, government, business, environmental issues, entertainment and minority affairs.

During the same time, the Washington native began her lifelong interest in wine. After two decades in the news reporting business, Christina decided it was time to concentrate on her passion – the wine industry. She is our new columnist and roving reporter.

This intelligent, charming powerhouse graces the Northwest wine industry with her insights, tastings and conversations with those in an industry that has exploded in the past few years. Her column may tell us a funny story that relates to wine, introduce us to a dedicated winemaker with a vision, or provide us with consumer information to make good choices in a field crowded with great wines. Christina's column is one you'll want to read every week.

Cole Danehower
Columnist and Marketing Advisor
Publisher, Oregon Wine Report

Cole Danehower is the publisher/editor of the Oregon Wine Report, and principal of CommunicAide Consulting Group LLC, providing expert marketing and communications services to the wine and hi-tech industries. He writes articles and two columns for avalonwine.com and oregon-wine.com.

Cole has extensive marketing knowledge- he is a highly respected consultant in the computer industry who has applied his expertise to the wine industry in the form of his publication and marketing consultation. Avalon has gained imeasurably from his advice.

Jean Yates
Owner and Web Person
Jean first worked with the Oregon wine industry in 1989, when she helped develop marketing brochures for wineries in the South Willamette. She then started Avalon, and has supported the industry through her wine shop and web site ever since. Jean enjoys promoting Oregon and Washington wines and bringing Northwest wines to the notice of the wineloving public.

Jean used to work in the computer industry, where she worked in market research on the UNIX operating system and co-authored several books on UNIX. She built and manages the Avalon web site and writes the newsletters and instructional materials for the store.

Jean has also written for Wine Today, Organic Gardening Magazine, and Byte Magazine. She has nine cats and lives out in the country in an old farmhouse with a big garden, a bunch of computers, and a lot of telephone lines.

Official store chocolate and cookie tasters- Britton, Jena, Jamie, and Sally

Above, senior chocolate taster Britton Yates
exemplifies the professional demeanor of Yates family members.

The Yates support team- Yea, I know its a family photo, but I'm so proud of them, and its my web site..... All are outstanding people in their innumerable ways...

Especially all my nieces and nephews! ------------- Jean