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Restaurant Flight

November 1, 2011 – 6:08 am

Last night we decided to go out for dinner. As it was we needed to purchase a bottle of wine to top off the wine in our homemade wine so it wouldn’t oxidize. So we headed in the direction of a wine shop looking for a restaurant we hadn’t been to before. It wasn’t long […]

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Muscadine vs Muscato

October 25, 2011 – 6:57 am

I find it interesting to read answers to wine questions. Local Wine Events sends out a newsletter that not only lists wine events in your region, but also has answers to questions. In today’s newsletter there was a question titled “Muscadine vs Muscato.” The writer wanted to know if the health benefits reported by literature […]

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The Deadly Use of the Objective for a Subjective Statement

October 10, 2011 – 11:18 am

It didn’t take long for Kathy to criticize me for not saying something to another visitor to a winery tasting room on our recent wineries visits. The other visitor was from Ohio and after discovering we were writers said, “The wines in Ohio aren’t very good.” Normally I would seize the opportunity of a teachable […]

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Wine Tourism Report Needs Replication

October 5, 2011 – 2:11 pm

After reading the “Financial Stability and Viability of Wine Tourism Business in the GWC”  conducted by Great Wine Capitals my opinion is that the research needs to be replicated in the United States with appropriate numbers of respondents for descriptive statistics to be accurate. The research conducted relied heavily on responses from old world wine […]

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Prosser Wineries/Vineyards, Day 4

October 1, 2011 – 10:57 pm

On our fourth day in the Prosser region we visited three wineries/vineyards about a half-hour south of the downtown area. Our first visit was to McKinley Springs. The winery tasting room is in a separate building than the winemaking facility. Surrounding the tasting room are acres of grapes as far as the eye can see.  […]

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Prosser Wineries, Day 3

September 30, 2011 – 9:16 am

We had visits to four wineries on this day but stumbled into an antique shop in downtown Prosser that turned out to be our fifth winery tasting room visit of the day. We began the day at Hogue Cellars, one of the Yakima Valley’s largest producers. Hogue was sold several years ago and eventually was […]

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Prosser Wineries, Day 2

September 29, 2011 – 9:15 am

This is our busiest day in Prosser. We are visiting several wineries: Desert Wind, Mercer Estate, Willow Crest, Milbrandt and  Gamache Vintners. Desert Wind is a destination site. The winery has a production facility, tasting room and retail area, restaurant and four suites for overnight guests. Desert Wind has a sister winery, Duck Pond Cellars, […]

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Prosser Wineries, Day 1

September 28, 2011 – 8:53 am

We drove from the Mercer family in the Horse Heaven Hills AVA past numerous vineyards on our way to the wineries in the Prosser area. The first stop was Snoqualmie Vineyards and then on to Pontin Del Roza. The afternoon had visits to Airfield Estates and Martinez & Martinez. Snoqualmie is a large production facility […]

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On the way to Prosser … a stop at Hood River

September 27, 2011 – 12:06 am

On our Monday drive to Prosser we stopped at Hood River to check out some of the tasting rooms in the downtown area. We found on-street parking right next to Naked Winery. Although we arrived in the morning, there were several couples that found the Naked Winery tasting room and tried their wines. Try wines […]

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Blended Tastes at Portland’s Navarre Restaurant

September 26, 2011 – 9:21 am

Last evening we walked to a restaurant a few blocks from our son’s house in Portland, Oregon. Navarre is a small and busy restaurant located on North East 28th Avenue between Couch and Burnside. The restaurant has an extensive wine list, mostly French with a few wines from Italy, Spain and the United States. Since […]

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