Christina Kelly, Christina Kelly spent the first half of her career as a journalist for daily newspapers and magazines. She left daily journalism to work in corporate marketing/communications, but as a passionate wine enthusiast, she continues to write about the Northwest wine industry (since 1997) for many national publications. Christina is a multiple fellowship winner to the Professional Wine Writers Symposium in Napa, including 2012. Christina has written for Avalonwine.com for the past 12 years. She can be reached at winewriter@comcast.net. 
Jean Yates 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 wine-loving public across the country. She previously worked in high tech marketing and research in Silicon Valley. Jean built and continually updates the Avalon web site, writes our Wine Club Newsletter, numerous e-mail articles on NW wine, and articles for the web site. Her twenty five years of experience working with NW wineries and winemakers gives Avalon a deep knowledge of the industry. She's judged NW wine at various competitions since 1997. Jean's favorite activity is photography, and many of the images on the Avalon web site are hers. She's from NC via Palo Alto, and lives in the South Willamette wine country. |
April 23, 2011, at 10:25 am
You know a wine is good when it inspires you to do something you’ve wanted to for years. In my case, it was the newest direct import from Evening Land: a white Burg, Dominique Lafon’s Saint Veran 09, and cooking a whole rabbit. If I go to a restaurant and there’s rabbit on the menu, [...] April 23, 2011, at 10:15 am
We’ve got Owen Roe Yakima Red magnums. Finally. And they are gorgeous. I’ve got some friends who are SO hard to buy for – now it’s handled. Whew. The bottles are stunning. David’s labels (image below) are hand engraved photogravure prints of the castles and ruins near his ancestral home in Ireland. It’s a hassle [...] March 31, 2011, at 12:30 pm
I gave longtime friend Robyn Lillehei a bottle of Rachel 09 and she generously shared her Volkman Experience with me. - Jean The celery, shallots and garlic were “setting up” in the sauté pan, just as Alida Marie had counseled during my Cajun cooking lesson 27 years ago. It was time to toss in a [...] March 31, 2011, at 11:57 am
Brick House Boulder Block Pinot noir 09, Evelyn’s Pinot noir 09 (we are so lucky to get some!) Chardonnay 09. They come they go. We have. Below, back porch at Brick House March 30, 2011, at 1:17 pm
Six new wines today that Marcus found on his road trip to wine country on Monday. Cameron, Crowley, Evesham Wood – a few hundred cases of the highest production wine, down to 45 cases total for the Evesham Le Puit Sec Chard and Tempranillo. Oregon Pinot noirs from Cameron, Crowley, and Evesham Wood. February 7, 2011, at 2:24 pm
I just updated our information about Andrew Rich’s wines. He has two new 2008 Pinot noirs, the Cuvee “B” 08 and “Prelude” 08, and new vintages of Ice Wine, Rousanne, a “Prometheus” Syrah 08, the “Coup D’Etat” 07, and a new vintage of “Mesalliance.” Tom Colligan did a great article for us about Andrew – [...] January 28, 2011, at 10:53 am
Todd Hansen’s Longplay Winery was singled out in the annual Oregon issue of Wine Spectator as a “New Name to Know”. Not that unusual, except Todd is only on his second vintage. It usually takes longer to come to the attention of Harvey Steiman. Todd is passionate about his vineyard, doing almost all the work [...] December 18, 2010, at 11:54 am
It’s easy to think that Lynn Penner-Ash was born with a wine thief clutched in her hand – she looks about thirty years old, but she’s been making wine in Oregon for 22 years. And from the start, her wines were great. Her Rex Hill Goldschmidt, Seven Springs and Maresh Vineyard Pinots, in particular, helped [...] November 22, 2010, at 3:21 pm
Wine Spectator’s TOP 100 Wines of the Year were announced today. There are eight wines from the northwest in the list – and six of them are made by Oregon wineries. Three 2008 vintage Oregon Pinots are included – from ROCO, A to Z, and Evening Land Vineyards. It’s awful nice to get some well [...] November 3, 2010, at 8:51 am
People can’t get enough of Peter Rosback’s really big red wines. They make pilgrimages to the small barn that is his winery, where he climbs up, around, and over barrels like the athletic soccer fanatic he is. His crew is super loyal – he has a lot of volunteers, people who love his wine and [...] October 27, 2010, at 4:50 pm
The Portland restaurant scene is hot – from fine dining to wildly popular food carts, the up and coming chefs of the nation congregate here. Their wine lists are creative, offering stellar quality and the most interesting of the artisan small wineries. Ken Pahlow and Marcus Goodfellow are two winemakers whose Pinots, made in tiny [...] October 12, 2010, at 9:04 am
Oregon wine is in the news and the ongoing harvest is receiving attention in the press. It’s looking a lot like the weather we had for the 2008 vintage. This week it’s glorious blue skies, cool nights, and some nail-biting, but trucks full of grapes are rumbling down the road outside my house (there’s four [...] October 7, 2010, at 10:23 am
Belle Pente Winery has a house elf, a la Harry Potter. You might cal him a dog, but if you met this weird little creature, you’d agree with me that he’s straight out of J.K. Rowling’s fevered dreams. Found at the pound, I think he escaped from a copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to [...] September 30, 2010, at 8:20 am
If House bill H.R. 5034 is passed in Congress, Avalon might as well pack up and go home. This bill would limit consumer choice and essentially ban us from shipping wine. Here’s a good article about it I haven’t ever used our blog to push any kind of political thing, but this is pretty bad [...] September 24, 2010, at 6:58 am
The magazine Bon Appetit went looking for the “Foodiest” towns in the country, and McMinnville made it into the list of six! If you’re not from Oregon, you may not know McMinnville (or “Mac” as it’s called by locals.) It’s right smack in the center of Willamette wine country, and hosts the International Pinot noir [...] |
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