Archive for the Winery Visits Category

  • 2010 NY State Harvest Thoughts - August 27th, 2010

    The West Coast (particularly speaking of Oregon and Northern California) saw a cool wet spring, followed by a cool beginning to summer. After a number of vineyards cut back their greenery to expose vines to the sunshine that finally arrived, heat settled in, and in some cases too much. Nature’s climate cycles, that often lead [...]
  • A Bloggin’ Slideshow - August 1st, 2010

    Images from the Wine Blogger’s Conference 2010, a 3 day extravaganza, from June 24-26, that included 300 Wine Blogger’s tasting, talking, writing, blogging, tweeting, eating… and occasionally sleeping. This occurred all in one building, with the exception of several outings in and around Walla Walla, Washington. Images of wineries and vineyards visited in this video [...]
  • Ciel du Cheval, s’il vous plait - July 27th, 2010

    Three days of running around with 300 passionate, witty, wild and crazy wine bloggers (at the 2010 Wine Blogger’s Conference in Walla Walla, WA) with hardly an exhale …and I was cooked! Honoring a pre-conference enthusiasm that didn’t know the definition of enough, I had signed up for a post-conference excursion. In the moment, thoughts [...]
  • At Cowhorn Vineyards… - September 1st, 2009

    Chatting with Bill Steele from Cowhorn Vineyards in Southern Oregon’s Applegate Valley…
  • Maysara - July 14th, 2009

    At the end of a great visit to Maysara Winery, just outside of McMinnville, OR, I was given two leftovers to take with me for a night cap. I arrived home two days later on Friday with the quarter filled bottles still in my car.
  • Touring Wine Country - July 9th, 2009

    Willamette Valley was the destination for three days of experiencing seven ConsciousWineries. Each winery offered unique stories, places and people. Here’s a nugget from each visit:
  • Biodynamic Wine from Cowhorn Vineyards - June 20th, 2009

    I recently visited Bill Steele of Cowhorn Vineyards in Southern Oregon’s Applegate Valley (a solidly under the radar viticultural area). When one discovers how young their vines are, paired with how good their wines are, the question becomes, ‘what’s up with that’? Answer #1: Biodynamically farmed grapes made according to Demeter standards so the wine can be labelled as Biodynamic® Wine.