Posts Tagged wineries

  • 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 [...]
  • REAL Value on a Budget - August 27th, 2010

    My ears perked up… like a deer. What I was listening to was the thought in my mind for a particular taste in wine. As I moved in the direction of action, I realized my wallet was not in sync with the thoughts spreading from my mind to my taste buds. The $18 for the [...]
  • 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…
  • Chew on This… - July 22nd, 2009

    In our on-going journey to reframe organic in the wine world, we’re going to play with the term, living wine.

    Wine in general needs to open a while, and we’re talking more than an hour. Imagine wine that gets better for several days once opened, maybe 3, 4, or 5 days.

    Okay, you get up in the morning, you stretch, breathe, get some water in you, a little coffee, step outside, breathe some more air, go for a walk… you’re waking up, and you start to find your mojo for the day.

    If a wine is alive why wouldn’t it need it’s own version of that?
  • Finding ConsciousWine on a Budget - July 15th, 2009

    You’re on a budget. A big budget. A budget that makes buying wine limited to a small part of the store. $15 is your max. Ideally under $10. Ideally ideally under $8. And you want ConsciousWine! You want wine with zippo synthetics in the vineyards, farmed with practices that give vitality back to that land, AND taste good! Where to look? What to do?
  • 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:
  • Earth Utility Vehicle - July 3rd, 2009

    At the Oregon Green Expo, I had just heard a talk by Jean Houston, and was walking briskly down an aisle when distracted by some youngsters on an RV. I stopped, said Hi, and soon discovered this was no ordinary RV. Infact, it wasn’t an RV at all. It was EUV (Earth Utility Vehicle). As we yaked, the conversation just kept getting more interesting. Once I identified myself as a wine guy, a new budding relationship had seeded.
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