Monthly Archives: May 2015
Wine and Travel: Legacy, artistry and fortitude found in the Yakima Valley AVA
Three hundred sunny days a year translates into more than 150 wineries spread across 17,000 acres of vines in the Yakima Valley AVA and that doesn’t even touch the bountiful supply of fruits and vegetables available at produce stands scattered throughout the Valley. Irrigation is mandatory to transform sagebrush into lush expanses of green space […]
May 28: The weekly wine down for Clark County and beyond
Upcoming events/festival: May is Oregon Wine Month – Check out activities going on all over the state throughout the month. 8th Annual Pinot & Pups Wine Auction – Sat, May 30 from 5:30 – 9:30 pm. Held at the Portland Art Museum with proceeds benefiting Guide Dogs for the Blind, wine tasting and dinner are […]
Area wineries divulge their Sangria tips and recipes
Warm summer months create a whole new ambience in which to imbibe. Heavy red wines and mulled beverages are cast aside along with boots and wool sweaters. Lighter reds, crisp whites and that fun little drink from the Iberian peninsula—Sangria—take center stage after a day of yard work or to accompany patio-lounging. True Sangria contains […]
May 21: The weekly wine down for Clark County and beyond
Upcoming events/festival: May is Oregon Wine Month – Check out activities going on all over the state throughout the month. Clark County Wine Country Memorial Weekend tour – Sat, May 23-Mon, May 25 make plans to visit the 16 wineries in Clark County. Fourteen of them have joined forces to create a Memorial Weekend Passport. Print it out […]
Meet the wine pro: A picture worth a thousand sips
The morning dew dripping from a bursting cluster of grapes, the first drops of liquid as they escape from an uncorked bottle, billowy clouds blowing over a field of vines in a profusion of fall colors—this is the world of wine caught through the lens of a skillful photographer. “I’ve found I have an ethereal […]
May 14 – The weekly wine down for Clark County and beyond
Upcoming events/festival: May is Oregon Wine Month – Check out activities going on all over the state throughout the month. Volcano Views and Brews – Tue, May 19–The Mount St Helens Institute presents a different topic hosted on the third Tuesday of every month at Loowit Brewing Company in Vancouver and the third Thursday of every month by […]
Portland Urban Wineries making waves on the east bank of the Willamette River
Loosely, an urban winery is defined as one that crafts, bottles and ages their wine all in the heart of a city as opposed to acres of land out in the pastoral countryside. It follows, then, that a great urban winery would be located near a stellar grape source or, even better, several. That’s […]
May 7 – The weekly wine down for Clark County and beyond
Upcoming events/festival: May is Oregon Wine Month – Check out activities going on all over the state throughout the month. Drink This! Vancouver – Sat, May 9 from 4-9 pm is the next date for this popular event where participants take to the walkable streets of downtown Vancouver to enjoy an ever-rotating list of businesses offering […]
English Estate, Clark County’s oldest winery, celebrates milestone birthday
Carl D. English, founder and winemaker at English Estate Winery from 2000 until his passing in 2010, authored Winegrowing in Clark County, Washington. He was a visionary and a passionate advocate for what Clark County terroir is capable of. An excerpt from his work, written in 1980 and revised in 2006, reads “The soils and […]