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• Thanksgiving weekend in the northern Willamette Valley

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  I managed to visit some wineries yesterday in McMinnville, Carlton and then up on Ribbon Ridge. The day couldn't have been more beautiful, and the wines and beer at each stop were excellent. This was one of those really good days in wine country.
  
  I started with the long' [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 4:45pm EST
  by Vincent Fritzsche

• Post harvest dinner, with wine

  A bunch of us affiliated with the winery got together last night for perhaps the best pot luck I've ever attended. Homemade pickles, butternut squash and cheve tarts, provencal beef stew, cous cous with butternut squash, farro with chantrelles and spicey delicata squash rounds, asparagus with garlic and parmasean, homemade' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:45pm EST
  by Vincent Fritzsche

• Cinderellawine.com

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  I don't have a lot of rules in life, but one is that any reference to Cinderella in pop music is strictly forbidden. The whole concept of Cinderella makes me a little ill. Just seeing the name makes my stomach turn a bit. Apologies if that's true for you.
  
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:34pm EST
  by Vincent Fritzsche

• 2007 Badia Alle Corti Montepulciano d'Abruzzo

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  What's the best cheap red wine I've had in months, possibly this whole year? The 2007 Badia Alle Corti Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, hands down. This might even be better than my longtime favorite from this DOC, the basic bottling from Masciarelli.
  
  There's nice freshness here, with a deep perfume that's' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:39pm EST
  by Vincent Fritzsche

• Elevage and Thanksgiving

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  In my recent post wrapping up the 2009 Vincent Cellars harvest, I wrote that elevage had begun. Elevage is what winemakers call the time from the end of primary fermentation at harvest through to bottling. In the case of pinot noir, that's typically one or two years where the new [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:05pm EST
  by Vincent Fritzsche

• 2001 Loosen Riesling Auslese Wehlener Sonnenuhr

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  Talking with a friend recently about German riesling, I was reminded about the great 2001 vintage. For me, 2001 was the revelatory year for me regarding the riesling of Germany's Mosel Valley and beyond.
  
  In particular, I remember a trade tasting in spring of 2002 that I was able [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:12pm EST
  by Vincent Fritzsche

• Aging beer: Abyss vs. Top Sail, and more

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  Though I'm mostly interested in wine, there's a place for serious beer in this blog. Last night I attended an annual winter beer and cheese gathering hosted by my friend and blog reader Dudley. The event attracts local brewers, vintners and regular folk like me, though I guess I've moved [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:36am EST
  by Vincent Fritzsche

• Cowan Cellars and "Florida" Jim Cowan

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  There are several stories of internet wine geeks making the leap into commercial production. The common one, if anything like this is really common, is a younger guy following his passion for wine, leaving the day job and, with significant help from contacts made in the online wine community, committing [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:57pm EST
  by Vincent Fritzsche

• Odds and ends

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  Nothing so pressing for a full post, so let's hit it three dot style...
  
  There's another train wreck over on the Robert Parker bulletin board today with unspecified allegations of additives in zinfandel and unreported blending in pinot noir. Of course these things happen, but it gets tiring [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:37pm EST
  by Vincent Fritzsche

• 2006 Crowley Chardonnay Maresh Vineyard

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  After tasting the oh my god good 2007 Kelley Fox Wines Pinot Noir Maresh Vineyard, I came home to homemade butternut squash soup, wheat levain and apple, gruyere and walnut salad for dinner. With that Dundee Hills inspiration, what else to try but the 2006 Crowley Chardonnay from the same [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:07pm EST
  by Vincent Fritzsche

• Southern Oregon Wineries Tasting last night at the Governor

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  Where was everybody? I went to the Southern Oregon Wineries tasting last night and didn't see anyone there I know, aside from a couple of producers. There was a good crowd though. Lots of happy tasters, some totally blitzed.
  
  The event featured more than two dozen producers from the' [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 9:41pm EST
  by Vincent Fritzsche