Oregon Wine Country Tour
Eleven days ago, we made arrangements with neighbors to watch our house and three dogs and we packed up the family and headed for Oregon. Leah’s dad had just turned 90 and it seemed a good reason for a...
View ArticleItalian Style…American Soil
On our recent trip to the Oregon’s Willamette Valley wine country, we sampled a lot of really excellent Pinot Noir and some very nice Pinot Gris. (People said those grapes would not do well in the...
View ArticleItaly in Oregon’s Willamette Valley—Bellissimo!
Today, we feature a post from Leah’s brother, Craig, who lives in the heart of the Oregon wine country and reports on a local event he attended this past weekend. Grazie mille, Craig! On assignment for...
View ArticleOregon Wine Country Tour (Part One)
This past October we returned to Oregon to get a handle on the latest Pinot Noir offerings from the Willamette Valley. We took our previous tour during the summer in June 2009. This time, we decided to...
View ArticleOregon Wine Country Tour (Part Two)
In Part One of this series, we wrote about some of the wineries in and about the Chehalem Mountains AVA in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Moving south, we next visited the Dundee Hills AVA. We have three...
View ArticleOregon Wine Country Tour (Part Three)
In Part One of this series, we reported on some of the wineries in and about the Chehalem Mountains AVA in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. In Part Two, we covered some of the best the Dundee Hill’s AVA has...
View ArticlePinot in the City
We’ve written a lot about Oregon Pinot Noir in the past year or so. Well, last month, the Willamette Valley came to Los Angeles for the Pinot in the City event. We approached the tasting in our usual...
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