Letter to and from America: Part Four
Portlandia Oregon has a youthful wine culture that is largely in thrall to certain commercial imperatives. Pinot Noir still rules; the local wine industry wants Brand Oregon to be closely…
Doug’s Decants
Keep your eyes on the wines: 2014 Vin de France, Melonix, Jo Landron This is Melon ++. Melon as in Muscadet. But with a natural malolactic and no sulphur added.…
Chatting with: Jeff Vejr, Oregon Winemaker. Part One
Jeff Vejr is the owner/winemaker of Golden Cluster. He sources grapes from one of the oldest vineyards in Oregon. His Semillon grapes are the oldest known in the Pacific Northwest. Potted Autobiography…
Wine ahoy! Or Les Caves de Pyrene discovers America.
We’ve just discovered America (with respect to its native American population). A little late it has to be said. Certainly, after Zuan Chabotto (c.1450-99), the Venetian navigator and explorer. His…
Austria and Oregon: random thoughts on recent buying trips. Part 2
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but is particularly indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less…
Austria and Oregon: random thoughts on recent buying trips
Part One – Roots “Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.” --The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the…
Everything you need to know about Oregon wine…
Portland A little local colour never comes amiss, so I will describe it as blandly and monochromatically as possible. Portland lies in the Marine west coast climate region, marked by…
Oregon: Part two – the heart and soul of biodynamics
Moe Momtazi and the heart and soul of biodynamics People must learn once more to “think” the spiritual “together with” the course of nature. It is not admissible today for…
Oregon: Part One
Kelley Fox and her beautiful wines. One of the greatest lessons I have learned about real wine is that you can’t push it around. Raiding the alms-basket of words and…