Tag Archives: willamette valley
Another Wine Blog's third First Friday event celebrated wines from the Pacific Northwest. Pairings for the Washington and Oregon wines included Puget Sound Smoked Salmon with Pancetta in aioli sauce, Washington State Honeycrisp Apples, and Bosc pears from Oregon. Various ...
AWB Launches First Fridays!
You may notice we haven't been posting that often lately, me especially. Partly because it's just been tough. We have all sorts of wine stories in the queue; trips to Portland, Carlton, Italy, ZinFest and tons of reviews that ...
Meet AWB Guest Blogger Hank Greer
Many of our Houston wine friends attended class with Joe at the University of Houston, through the International Sommelier Guild. I met Hank Greer, along with Iris Allen, at an end-of-semester Christmas party in 2007 to help celebrate the completion ...
A Symphony of Artistry: Cornerstone Oregon Pinot Noir
I am sitting at my kitchen table looking out the window after a rainstorm. The blinds are half-mast, so I cannot see the gray sky. My view is just of the yard to the top of our wood fence and ...
Valentine Gifts for the Wine Lover
February 14th falls on Sunday this year, and I would bet some of you will be waiting until Saturday to go shopping. But for those of you who want get to Hallmark before everything is picked over, you might start ...
Google Wine Maps
As this excellent article on the Willamette Valley demonstrates, Google has allowed for some amazing uses of its technology by independent developers. The information on the Willamette Valley is well worth the read, but the really stunning part of the article ...
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