August 2010

You Gotta Try This! Chateau St. Martin de La Garrigue “Tradition” 2007

This is our first “You Gotta Try This!” wine, the Chateau St. Martin de La Garrigue “Tradition”, 2007.  Our criteria for this category is simple- the wine tastes great, especially for the price.  Basically, not just a good QPR wine, a GREAT QPR. The St. Martin has a lot going for it: a Kermit Lynch [...]

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Portland, Oregon Wine Tastings- August 26-29th

Spain is hot.  Spain won the World Cup this summer, and Spain has that “cooking” show with Mario Batali and Gwyneth Paltrow.  Or is that a travel show?  Who knows, it’s a tough combo to beat, and Spain is featured no less than five times this weekend in Portland’s tastings.  They all sound good, so [...]

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Portland, Oregon Wine Tastings- August 19-21

There are Seriously Good Wine-tastings this weekend, good luck choosing!  You will feel like a kid in a candy shoppe on Friday, as Syncline is at Storyteller Wines, Spanish reds at Cork, Txacolina at Foster and Dobbes (if you haven’t tried Txacolina do it, they are great!), Sicilian at Garrisons, and two big daddy Oregon [...]

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Cool News From Kir Wine Bar

Kir Wine Bar, one of our favorites, sent out a newsletter today with new food and wine items, specials, and the burgeoning “Lobu” happenings. P.S. We haven’t seen the infamous “Volkswaffle” yet, but it definitely qualifies for Best Food Cart name for 2010! Kir wine bar newsletter Greetings! Summer is flying by and we are [...]

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Brooks Winery and the Youngest Winery Owner in the World

Our espresso machine died today. Or maybe it just needs resuscitated according to the coffeegeek.com forums: “Send it back to the manufacturer but since they do not sell parts directly it may be better to throw it away and buy a new machine.” What a metaphor for today’s throw-away culture where it’s cheaper to buy [...]

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