Fellow wine enthusiasts. Just to wet your appetite, here is a taste of what’s in store for you as this blog takes shape in coming months.

Winery and Wine Reviews from the Pacific Northwest and Around the World
The Latest in Food-Wine Pairings (from Chefs, Restaurateurs, and You)
Expert Intrerview/Q&A posts
Fact or Fiction Column (e.g.: Wine Glasses and their […]

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Back from a brief visit to the Big Apple, we decided it was time for another scouting trip to a few of the wineries that dot Oregon’s back roads. There are so many to choose from, over 350 by some estimates.
Cruising Old Highway 99 past Monmouth and up through Rickreall, we make our first stop […]

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On Mother’s Day we made a little discovery. No, it wasn’t a long lost child. Two is plenty for us. What we found was a little winery/vineyard little more than a mile away - practically in our own back yard.
We’ve lived in (North) Albany, Oregon for 16 years and had heard of Springhill Cellars, but […]

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Welcome to my Wine Memoirs blog. This is the first of what I hope are many entries to this online journal. I’ve been a wine enthusiast for a few years now and a writer for many more. The two passions met when I started writing for Main Ingredient and other magazines.
What I hope to accomplish […]

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