November News It’s Fall! Our favorite wine time of year as so many of our wines pair well with the bounty of the season, be it wild mushrooms, squash or richer bigger dishes you find yourself enjoying to warm your inner soul! And then there’s pairing for the Thanksgiving table and we think our 2…
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Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste Book Release Party
We will have two James Beard Award-winning authors Rajat Parr and Jordan Mackay at Thelonious Wines next Tuesday the 30th to celebrate the launch of their new book ‘The Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste’. We will be pouring some great stuff by the glass from producers featured in the book, and Raj will be signing purchased copies…
It’s Sherry Week at Bar Vivant!
Sherry Class Featuring the wines of VALDESPINO Bar Vivant & Pix Pâtisserie owner, Cheryl Wakerhauser, is one of just thirteen official Sherry Educators in the US, a recognition awarded by the Consejo Regulador of the Sherry region. Join her, Brian Martin from Galaxy Wine Company and fellow Sherry lovers for a fun, interactive workshop. Discover the…
October Happenings with Viola Wine Cellars
To Dream . . . It’s been a long Summer around the Viola camp. I’ve been out swinging a hammer (not to mention pouring concrete, pulling electrical and roughing in the plumbing) in Mosier trying to make our dream a reality – having a little vineyard and winery in the midst of the Columbia Gorge…
Fall Releases, New Wine Clubs, and Harvest 2018!
Grapes, Grapes, Grapes. It’s Harvest 2018 at Division Winemaking Company! One of the most exciting things about making wine is that we often don’t know what kind of vintage it’s going to be until just before the grapes start rolling in! Around about the third week of August, we were expecting more scorching days, but instead, temperatures started to drop,…
Make Your Own Rosé!
The Carlton Winemakers Studio’s exciting harvest event, “Make Your Own Rosé!”, will give guests first-hand, exuberating experience of making a rosé wine. The 3-4 hour experience will begin at 9 a.m. picking grapes in the vineyard and then pressing the fruit, followed by a boxed lunch and an educational discussion and tasting of several finished…
Cerulean’s Harvest Party 2018!
Cerulean Soiree at the Vineyard Wine + Food + Lawn Games + Live Music Sunday, September 30th 12pm-4pm at Cerulean’s organic vineyards in the Gorge Get tickets at http://ceruleanvineyard2018.eventbrite.com Wine Club Members ……………….. FREE (maximum 2 free tickets) Guests of Wine Club Members …. $15 Non-Members ………………………. $30 (Or… join our Wine Club now…) Wine Club members can also…
Monte Enebro/Trisaetum Winery Tasting
Monte Enebro Monte Enebro is made by Paloma Baez in Avila, Spain. Paloma learned to make Monte Enebro from her father, Rafael, the creator of this lovely cheese. This goat’s milk cheese defies boundaries, being both a soft-ripened cheese as well as a blue. Rather than piercing this cheese in order to create blue veins,…
Newly-Renovated Abbey Road Farm To Hold “Silobration”
Newly-Renovated Abbey Road Farm To Hold “Silobration” Open House September 29th & 30th in Willamette Valley Wine Country Weekend Festivities Include Music, Artisan Fair, Food Trucks, Wine Tastings, and Cornhole Tournament September 4, 2018 – Carlton, OR – Abbey Road Farm, newly-revitalized in the heart of Oregon wine country, will hold its first open house…
Labor Day Secret Sale & More
Secret Labor Day Sale! What a Summer! We can’t believe it has flown by and the distraction of trying to build a new place out in the Gorge has really taken us away from our usual wine activities. But that’s about to change! Sarah finished cleaning our picking bins just as we finished the new…
Demystifying the grape — a wine tour to focus on wine education
Demystifying the grape – Group of Willamette Valley wineries focus on wine (and grape growing) education To many, making wine is a mysterious and romantic endeavor. And for your typical wine consumer, it’s hard to get answers to winemaking questions: How do they decide when to pick the grapes? Do they have a recipe? Why use a cork instead…
Argyle Winery and Pacific Northwest College of Art to Unveil Third Annual “Art of Sparkling” Release
DUNDEE, Ore. – August 14, 2018 – Argyle Winery is excited to announce that it will be unveiling its limited-edition 2015 Art of Sparkling Vintage Brut at a special event to be held on September 15th. As part of Argyle’s philanthropic support of the Oregon arts community, Art of Sparkling is a unique program in…