Hi folks! Just a quick note on what we have coming up… Grand Opening Weekend Thursday May 5th through Sunday May 8th noon to 6:00 pm Free wine tasting flights for our Opening weekend ~Wine Club membership commencement ~Daily special purchases ~Mother’s Day Celebration chocolate truffles and Wine
So I have to say that I am a wee bit wined out…after this two week marathon of Taste Washington, Columbia Wine Growers taste Portland and then a 3 day weekend for a “soft” opening for Passport Weekend I am worn out! And what a weekend it was! Cork and Bottle did a fabulous jobRead more
Just a reminder to you all to plan your trip this weekend to the Gorge for Passport Weekend! We will feature 7 wines total Goat Boy 2009 Bordeaux style red blend Atticus 2009 Syrah/Viognier co0ferment Moth Love 2009 Southern Rhone style Red Blend Orlando 2009 Spanish style Red Blend Come & Go 2010 Albarino Earnest Read more
Atticus is doing well in the bottle…we opened another bottle, well several actually, the other night and I really can’t help but love it. Sumptuous wine. Atticus is a blend of Joseph Phelps clone Syrah (97%) and Viognier (3%). The blend was made in ferment, the Syrah destemmed and partially crushed with paddles fully openRead more
So today we filtered then bottled Tzippy. Scratch that… {Today we ROUGH filtered Tzippy. 5 microns in a membrane filter…really not even a polish. Tzippy was taking so long to settle…still some clarity issues, and we needed to bottle..SO…I chose the largest poracity for filtering to maintain the gorgeous viscosity of my Gewurztraminer/Riesling blend. I’mRead more
Hi folks~As many of you already know, we are not officially opening our doors until May 5th…except for Passport weekend! Passport weekend is April 1st through the 3rd, with a sneak preview on March 28th in Portland, in the Pearl (details below). Since this is such a major event in our local wine/grape grower group,Read more