Monthly Archives: November 2015
SW Washington Wine Country THE place to be Thanksgiving Weekend
This weekend area vintners have come together to offer their largest tour yet; the SW Washington Wine Country New Release and Barrel Tasting Weekend, featuring 17 wineries and tasting rooms. Push yourself away from the Thanksgiving table, shuffle into as many as your schedule will allow and support the tenacity and creative spirit of local […]
A host of wine options for Thanksgiving weekend
Not everyone will be in town for SW Washington Wine Country’s New Release and Barrel Tasting. For those traveling over the river and through the woods for Thanksgiving weekend, a host of weekend wine options await throughout Washington and Oregon: Southeast Wine Collective will be pouring up to 20 fall wine releases from eight urban […]
SE Wine Collective and Niche Wine Bar celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau
Despite recent events, or maybe because of them, Beaujolais Nouveau Day went on as planned on November 19 as it has for nearly 65 years in the south of France. Marked on the third Thursday in November with all manner of celebratory pageantry, Beaujolais Nouveau Day is proof that France, a country known as the […]
Battle Ground’s Dolio Winery debuts over Thanksgiving weekend
Although still a work in progress, visitors will be able to enjoy the warmth of Dolio Winery’s climate-controlled tasting room during the Southwest Washington Wine Country Thanksgiving Weekend tour. Owners Don and Pam Klase pictured here. Viki Eierdam A little market research can be a motivating tool. According to Battle Ground resident Don Klase […]
November 19th: The weekly wine down for Clark County and beyond
Upcoming events/festival: Nouveau Division Crawl – Thu, Nov 19 from 5-8 pm come join the 2nd Annual street party celebrating Oregon and French Beaujolais Nouveau along SE Division Street (Portland’s Restaurant Row). Booths along the street will feature foods and tastings of the first wine of the harvest—in traditional French fashion. Purchase tickets here. […]
Seattle Urban Wineries finally hitting their stride
Say what you want about Seattle’s traffic (and I’ll probably agree) but once you’re in the city, the rush of activity whispers to the possibilities around every corner. I’ve found myself at wine events in Seattle a few times this year (none of them during the summer months) and the unseasonably mild weather has only […]
Umpqua upset at Australia’s Six Nations Wine Challenge
After October’s Six Nations Wine Challenge upset, I’m already imagining Steve Carell cast as Stephen M. Reustle and Charlotte Ayanna as his beautiful wife, Gloria, in an upcoming wine flick entitled A Heavenly Vintage detailing their road to winning Best Syrah of the New World much like Bill Pullman as Jim Barrett in the fabulously […]
November 12th: The weekly wine down for Clark County and beyond
Upcoming events/festival: Volcano Views and Brews – Tue, Nov 17–Come learn about hiking the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and surrounding wild areas with award winning guidebook author, Craig Romano presented by the Mount St Helens Institute at Loowit Brewing Company in Vancouver. Folks are encouraged to come around 5 pm for dinner, drinks […]
Maryhill Winery brings the Gorge to Vancouver
There seem to be a lot of ‘first evers’ happening in the local wine world not the least of which was Maryhill Winery’s first ever large scale off-site tasting this past Friday night at Vancouver’s Heathman Lodge. Collaborating with Visit Vancouver USA, the Maryhill crew brought their award-winning wines from the Washington Gorge to pour […]
Galeotti’s Wine Cellar: La Famiglia returns to Battle Ground
It’s been a wait for the close-knit community of Battle Ground, Washington and devoted fans farther afield but, after a three year hiatus, the Galeotti family is back on Main Street. On Thursday, November 5th Mike and Sheila Galeotti along with his brother, Tom, and sister-in-law, Christy, opened their doors to Galeotti’s Wine Cellar—a new […]