We’ve reached Day 9 of the 12 Days of Wine 2021! We are heading to the Ribbon Ridge AVA in Oregon’s Willamette Valley for today’s Wine. This is a Pinot Noir from Utopia. Sounds like the perfect place to go,...
We are at the halfway point with Day 6 of our 12 Days of Wine 2021! Today we head further north in Oregon to the Willamette Valley to taste a Dry Riesling from Trisaetum. Day 6 Trisaetum 2020 Coast Range...
Bells Up They identify as “Micro-boutique and un-domaine”. Bells Up Winery was born from leaving stress behind and blowing their own horn! The name comes from a term in classical music composition as a note for French Horns. When it...
Steve Lutz didn’t start out planning to be a winemaker. Wine found him. He grew up in Colorado and planned to be a lawyer. In college at the University of Oregon, he had his first real experience with wine. He...
Bells Up Typically when you see a French horn being played, you see the bell (the horn part where the sound comes from) pointed down and to the side of the musician. Typically also they have their hand and perhaps...
It was early morning of our last day in the Willamette Valley and we drove North from (where we were staying) heading toward the Chehalem Mountains. The road into Portland was moving fast and we came up a hill, with...
Last July we made the drive out to Illahe Vineyards in the southern part of the Willamette Valley. The vineyard is south west of Salem, Oregon, in the proposed Mt. Pisgah/Polk County AVA. Kathy Greysmith, the tasting room manager, took...
We made the drive toward the southern part of the Willamette Valley to visit Illahe. (ILL-a-he) We were staying in Newburg and took the opportunity to get up early and drive south through the Eola-Amity Hills and then down to...
Andrew Beckham has merged his two loves, ceramics and wine. The bottle for this wine lists it as “Creta A.D. Beckham MMXVI Amphora Pinot Noir”. This wine was made in a terra cotta vessel. A vessel made right here in...
Day 8 of our 12 Days of Wine found us doing a late night pairing. We met Leah Jørgensen of Leah Jørgensen Cellars this summer and had a wonderful conversation with her about her wines, cabernet franc and so many...
On the 7th day…well we rested! Eating Pizza and Sucking Glass with Maloof Wines. Eat pizza, suck glass.The Mantra from RossandBee at Maloof Wines We have been cooking a lot lately, and these 12 Days of Wine are keeping us...
On the 6th day of Wine we opened our bottle of Joyful Noise Pinot Noir made by Deven Morganstern. 2015 Joyful Noise Pinot Noir We met Deven and Callie of Joyful Noise at the Uncommon Wine Festival this...
