Finally, Summer!
We started with a heat wave last week, and then clouds. Now that it’s mid-July, it appears like we have a consistent week of summer! Perfect for summer white wines. On Friday night, Cork on NE Alberta has a stellar lineup of White Burgundies, including an amazing super pour. Also, Liner & Elsen has some of our favorite Kermit Lynch imports, Chateau St. Martin de La Garrigue. They are great QPR wines, tasting like $30+ bottles. Our perennial favorite, sparkling wines, are at Great Wine Buys as well. Cheers!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Korkage Wine Shop
Ribera Vineyards- This week we are pleased to present West Linn boutique vintner Ribera Vineyards (talk about local!). This is a nice tasting event because there is a fair share of both red and white finds, poured by the winemaker. We met this family vintner at the Indy wine festival this spring. They average under 1000 cases annually using sustainable methods – it is our pleasure to support them and literally enjoy the fruits of their labor, 6-8 pm, live music.
Thirst Wine Bar
Complimentary Tasting with Whisper Ridge- Join us in welcoming winemakers Bill & Many from Whisper Ridge Winery as they host our complimentary wine tasting! This is your chance to meet the minds behind these high end wines that are in very limited distribution.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Blackbird Wineshop
TBD
Cork, NE Alberta
Burgundy, Included will be new arrivals of 2007 Aligote from AMIOT GUY, 2008 Bourgogne Blanc from HUBER-VERDEREAU and BENJAMIN LEROUX, the 2007 THIBERT St. Veran Champ Rond and the 2007 BUISSON CHARLES Meursault Vielles Vignes. This main flight is $15 to taste and the range of wines is quite impressive, 4-6 pm, $15.
Cornell Wine
Oregon Pinot Noir 2007, It’s time to look at this vintage again! 4:30-7 pm, $8-$16.
Every Day Wine
French, 5-9 pm, $12.
Foster and Dobbes
TBD, 4:30-6:30 pm, free.
Garrison’s Fine Wines
Rhone Tasting:
2005 Domaine Les Chenes Blancs Gigondas
2007 Domaine Le Couroulu Vacqueyras
2007 Domaine Berthet Rayne Cairanne
2007 Clos du Mont Olivet Serre de Catin (100% Syrah)
2007 Domaine Berthet Rayne Chateauneuf du Pape ‘Fut de Chene’
5-8 pm, $15.
Gem Wine Cellar & Wine Bar
Blind Tasting of Six Varietal Wines with a Prize for Naming Five, 5-8 pm, $15.
Great Wine Buys
It’s time again for our bubblecious Bastille Day Celebration. Enjoy a great selection of Champagne and French sparkling! 5-7:30 pm, $15.
Hollywood Wine & Espresso
TBD, 5-10 pm, $10.
John’s Marketplace
5-7 pm, $5.
Liner & Elsen
A “grand cru” tasting of Grüner Veltliners and Rieslings from Austria, 5:30-7:30, fee.
Mt. Tabor Fine Wines
Wines from the Iberian Peninsula; Spain & Portugal- Boy, can you say summer has arrived? Nothing moderate this year, we’re either breaking rainfall records, cold records or heat records. You could say it’s a record breaking year! It looks like I should have done all rose and white tastings this month. So, to beat the heat we’ll offer a few things for you. First, we have the coolest shop in town (in numerous ways). Our ability to keep you cool during your tasting is due to a very efficient air conditioning system. Second, we will offer at least two whites and a rose off the tasting board and I’ve adjusted the Iberian tasting just a touch for your comfort. Our flight of 5 wines will contain 4 delicious reds from Spain & Portugal and we will begin the flight with a killer Cava (sparkling white). Yesterday while my reps were showing me their wares I tasted a creamy, refreshing Cava that will be the perfect starter on this close to 100 degree day. The flight of 5 will be $15 but if you’re the type that just can’t handle a beautiful sparkler you can do the flight minus the Cava for $12 (4 wines). 4-7:30 pm, $15.
Portland Wine Merchants
TBD, 4-8:00 pm, $15.
Storyteller Wine Co.
Dai Crisp of Lumos Wine Company! This is going to be a great tasting! We will be joined by Dai Crisp, a classically trained actor who got his start in the world as a vineyard manager. In 1990 Dai started tending the vines at Croft Vineyard and by 1999 he had become the manager of one of Oregon’s top vineyards, Temperance Hill. Dai continues to manage Temperance Hill Vineyard while at the same time finding time to make his own wine under the Lumos label. Dai makes great wines that are beautifully priced. We will be pouring a few different Pinot Noirs as well as a Gewuzrtraminer. And there will be a Pinot Gris that will knock your flip flops off. I tasted it the other day and thought it was one of the three or four best Oregon Pinot Gris wines I had ever tasted. There will be no charge for this tasting and if you are feeling adventurous you might want to see if you can stump Dai with lines from Shakespeare plays. 6-9 pm, free.
Vino
Oregon Pinot Noir- we’ll explore a host of new, delicious 2008′s, all at very attractive prices, 4:30-8 pm, fee.
The Wine Cellar
TBD, 4-6:30 pm, free
Wine/Unwind
vX Vineyards, 6-9 pm, free.
Woodstock Wine and Deli
Sauvignon Blanc, crisp and clean, 6:30 pm, $10.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Cork, NE Alberta & NW Lovejoy
This Saturday, we’ve got a FREE DROP-IN WINE TASTING from 2pm-4pm @ both shops. We’ll be pouring a couple delicious new arrivals – the 2009 EVENING LAND Gamay Celebration and, for the first time in Oregon, THE OJAI VINEYARD Red Table Wine! Saturday tastings are FREE, so stop in for a sip of these delicious new arrivals and stock up for the weekend.
Garrison’s Fine Wines
Every Day Wines, 1-4 pm, free
Great Wine Buys
Northwest Reds from Natalie’s Estate, 2-5 pm, free.
Liner & Elsen
Back to France: Ch. Barbanau L’Instant Côtes de Provence Rosé, Brumont Gros Manseng-Sauvignon, Ch. St. Martin de la Garrigue Côteaux du Languedoc Blanc, Ch. St. Martin de la Garrigue Tradition Villages,and Mas d’Intras La Cuvée d’Alphonse, noon-5, free.
Portland Wine Merchants
TBD, 12-5, free.
Storyteller Wines
On Saturday we will be pouring three wines from out old friend John Grochau. Sure, John has poured wines many times before at Storyteller but this time all three wines will be poured from a four liter box. There will be his 2009 PINK, 2009 WHITE and 2009 Commuter Cuvee Pinot Noir. Attendees will be able to purchase all three wines in either box or 750 ml. format. There will be no charge for this tasting. 12-5 pm, free.The Wine Cellar
TBD, 12-5 pm
