Press Releases- For our Valentine’s
- Salt & Straw Makes Their National TV Debut this Sunday
- Celebrity Crab Cracking Returns to Portland (Today Friday February 3rd) – Benefits MS Society
- News from In Good Taste Cooking School
- Limited Edition Valentine’s Tea
- GameTime Celebrates Grand Opening Feb. 13-19 with Specials & Fundraiser for Local School Districts
- Upcoming tastings & seminars at L&E, Fri-Tues schedule
- Toro Bravo & Tasty n Sons – February 2012 Update
- Lompoc Brewing Presents Sixth Annual Chowder Challenge
- Great Wine Buys Hosts a Vietti wine dinner at Luce
Category Archives: Alcohol
British Astronomer Markets “Meteorite Wine”
Yup, you heard it right. Ian Hutcheon, a British astronomer, has introduced a red wine that contains… a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite. The meteorite from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is introduced into the wine just after a 25 day maloactic fermentation, and then blended with Cabernet. “The idea behind submerging it in wine was to give everybody the …
Clyde Common and Teardrop Lounge Named Two of “50 Best Bars in America”
Food & Wine Magazine likes to post lists. Not only do they get people excited (and subscribing) in each city that wins, but they also generate tons of clicks as we click slog our way through never-ending slide-shows to find out who is on the list. This time the focus is “One of the 50 Best Bars in America”. Portland scores …
An Ode to Rosé
I first sipped rosé in the South of France, so there was no choice but to fall immediately and deeply in love. I studied in Paris; during our late-summer break some friends and I vacationed in a small beach town near Béziers, on the Mediterranean coast. Immediately after ditching our backpacks at the budget hotel, my friends and I plopped …
Drink Pink
A few weeks ago I was pouring at a tasting where the lineup included a few rosés. As I tried to pour the first pink wine into one gentleman’s glass he looked at me with that look of disappointment that told me we were about to have a conversation about rosé. It was the face you would see if you …
What Do We Want Out of Wine?
So what is it we want out of wine? That it tastes good, right? Oh, and if it doesn’t empty our wallets that is certainly a nice bonus. This is especially true for yours truly, since the “stock option” plan for VINO employees consists of drinking leftover wine from weekend tastings. Luckily, there has never been a better time to …
Wine Musings: Meeting Royalty
It was late January 1997 and a particularly dark, wet and dreary winter’s day. We were on the back end of a 3 week trip driving all over the Italian peninsula, and beginning to get that type of weary that sets in when you’ve been away a long time and constantly on the move. That day we found ourselves in …
Wine Musings: Vintages – “Good” and “Bad”
It frustrates me the way vintages are reduced to “good” and “bad”. It’s not that vintage doesn’t matter – it can matter tremendously for many wines. But it’s a lot more complex than black or white. Take 2008 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir. The wines are gorgeous, but a little like me at the end of the work week – they’re …
