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We love visiting the Willamette Valley wine region. Whenever we go, we end up buying a lot of wine. While we visited a number of wineries, four stood out don’t this trip: Wineries where we enjoyed virtually every wine we tasted. Among this rare breed were: The Four Graces. This winery, which we had …
Yamhill-Carlton is at the northern end of the Willamette Valley Oregon, while Eola-Amity Hills is at the southern end. Given the diversity in the Valley among these two AVAs, one might expect the wines from each to differ greatly, as do those from the contiguous Newberg and Dundee Hills AVAs. Surprisingly, while the soil types […]
As a reminder form our previously posted Primer on Willamette Valley AVA and Vintages, the Dundee Hills AVA is generally characterized by red volcanic (Jory) soil which holds heat, resulting in deep, red cherry and plum-based fruit-focused wines with iron-based minerality and spices such as cinnamon, clove and cardamom. Of the three vintages we …
As a reminder form our previously posted Primer on Willamette Valley AVA and Vintages, Newberg is generally characterized by brown, loamy, sedimentary (Willakenzie) soil that drains better than volcanic soil, resulting in more intense, earthier, darker fruit flavors, with floral elements and subtle tannins and baking spices. Of the three vintages we tasted: …
We enjoy relatively earthy, less fruit-forward Willamette Valley wines. But we did not know enough about the region, not to mention the roughly dozen different AVAs, to understand why. And which wines were we most likely to enjoy? This blog is an attempt to decipher some of the mysteries of Oregon wines. Willamette Valley AVAs […]
International Pinot Noir Celebration or IPNC. It’s the wine that first gets your attention and lures you in. And why not? 70 Pinot Noir producers from all over the world, descending on McMinnville Oregon, in the heart of the Willamette Valley Oregon. What Pinot Noir lover could resist that call? We had heard about it […]