From E & R’s Facebook Page: WALLA WALLA WINE COUNTRY COMES TO E&R THIS AFTERNOON! We are almost at capacity so please let us know if you’d like to attend. 17 wineries, 40 wines, 10 winemakers: Abeja Amavi Corliss DaMa Dowsett Dumas Station Dusted Valley L’Ecole No. 41 Helix Northstar Pepper Bridge Reininger Spring Valley [...]
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E & R is hosting a fantastic tasting of four young Oregon Winemakers today, plus Storyteller has the tasty Woodblock Chocolate and wine tasting. Yum! Saturday, February 25, 2011 Cornell Wine TBD E & R Wine Shop Four Top Young Oregon Winemakers! taste and meet four top young oregon winemakers! free tasting with: brad mcleroy [...]
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Another full lineup tonight around town, we are lucky to have so many options! Do other cities have this many great tastings? Where else do you get options to try a $108 bottle of Barolo, biodynamic grower champagne, AND meet Marcus Goodfellow in one night? What has two thumbs and loves Portland Friday wine nights? [...]
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We finally broke down, sold my horribly point and shoot camera (and never used videocamera) and traded them in for a better entry level option. Here are a few samples of wine bottles, and will bring (hopefully) better photos along with any reviews. For this “mini-review”, we opened 2010′s Christmas present that was stored in [...]
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While the words “Wine Warehouse” are not exactly the right words, they are the first words that come to mind when describing Vinopolis Wine Shop. The large (shall we say “cavernous”?) shop has an incredible amount and selection of wines, and was voted as 2011′s “Best Overall Wine Selection” in Portland. When you walk in [...]
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The DIY Edison Lights Cost a Whopping $23! We love the vintage Edison light style, especially against the brick of our condo. You might even say we love the “1890′s Portland” look! Coffeehouse NW has cool lighting, along with Loyly Spa and a few other places around town and we wanted it for our place. [...]
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We HATE the Westminster Dog Kennel Show. We were transfixed, amazed, and utterly sucked in to the drama and the beauty of the canines this week on TV, and then the judge picked the UGLIEST dog in the world as “Best in Show”!! The fix was in apparently, but do not take my word for [...]
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Eater.com is conducting their “Hottest Chefs” competition right now, and they are down to their finalists. Monday, Sous Chef Mika Paredes from Beast (seeing her shaking hands on Iron Chef endeared me to her forever) will go against Greg Gourdet of the Departure Lounge. The real question is: who is going to host the “Hottest [...]
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From OWOB press release: Dirt visits Southern France Wednesday February 15th from 5-8PM Here are the wines we will showcase on Wednesday. Hope to see you all for an education on some unusual wines. Flight of 5 tastes $12 see you on Broadway! 2010 DOMAINE DES SCHISTES LeBosc Blanc $12 2010 DOMAINE DES SCHISTES Les [...]
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Hardy Wallace is truly “living the dream”. His story is well chronicled over the internet: he lost his (hated) tech job in Atlanta, won the internet sensation Murphy-Goode Social Marketing contest, moved to Sonoma, learned his winemaking craft at the Natural Wine Alliance, and is now bottling his own label “Dirty Rowdy Wines, America’s #1 [...]
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