Wine Tonite!

Today is share your #PinotMoment day on the interwebs thanks once again to host @RickBakas.  Since we are well-known Pinotphiles, we have a warehouse full of Pinot Moments stored away in our memories.  However, below I re-share a moment my wife and I had when we visited the Willamette Valley in Oregon back in 2008. [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post about needing a little change, you know that I have aspirations of becoming a winemaker or work in the wine industry in some capacity.  In that post I also mentioned a contest TravelOregon is promoting where one winner will get to work with Lynn Penner-Ash of the winery’s [...]

A guest post by Alina Brown of murphygoodemovement.com   My recent road trip from Bellingham, Washington, to Healdsburg, California, included a three-day stop in Willamette Valley, popularly known as the heart of Oregon wine country.  With more than 200 tasting rooms and wineries, Willamette Valley resembles a younger, less sophisticated version of California’s Napa and [...]

What a tough week… I caught a cold and have not really been able to taste much wine… certainly not smell it.  In the meantime, I’ll share with you the recipe I used for a Duck and Cherry Sauce dish that paired nicely with the some of the Oregon Pinot Noir we brought back from [...]