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Wine in the Woods 2025
Cheers to another wonderful gathering of this year’s Wine in the Woods! We had a great time meeting everyone and seeing all the beautiful summer blooms around the garden. It’s always an honor to be a part of this event and join our fellow local businesses each year in support of the Alaska Botanical Garden.
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Alaskan Seafood & Italian Wine at the Bridge
Dear Oenophile, I was asked last time how I pick the wines for these events. Usually I’m given a menu and since I’ve drank pert near everything on the planet I select what I think would be fun. Some times I have it in inventory and some times I have to order, either way it
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Wine Wednesday, Bridge Restaurant, Hedges Estate & Wine House
Next Wednesday, Nov. 13th, at 6:PM. I will be conducting a tasting of 5 absolutely perfect wines from Hedges Family Estate. We will be utilizing the fine ambiance of The Bridge Restaurant as our hosting partner. Tickets for 3 courses and 5 wines are a mere $85. Not too shabby. 🙂Hedges Estate was started in
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Virtual Wine Tasting with Anchorage Symphony Orchestra
A Benefit to Support your Anchorage Symphony Orchestra The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra’s annual Symphony of Wines is known as Anchorage’s foremost wine tasting event of the year. With events being moved online, why not move the wine tasting there too? We are proud to be working with your ASO and Specialty Imports to present 4
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Bell’s Nursery is Making Wine!
Dear OenophileYep that’s right. Anchorage Alaska has its first full fledged vineyard! I’m talking plants in the ground! Vintus Vinifera on it’s own roots! That’s quite a feat. Hardly anyone grows wine grapes on their own roots. We’re just too cold for the root louse to live up here. Yes there are other Alaskan wineries but
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6/42 Maremma Toscana
Dear Oenophile6/42, what kind of a name is that, you wonder? It’s all about 6 varietals grown on the 42 parallel. The 42 parallel is where all the good stuff comes from. It’s just about half way between the north pole and the equator. So, perfect days of long sunshine. It also happens to run
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We Have the Goods!
Decoy Wine Seltzer’s Yea!
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Re-Opening Celebration! 3020 Minnesota between Benson & Spenard next to City Diner
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Adelsheim Vineyards Dinner and Tasting at Altura Bistro
Dear OenophileIn the late 60’s and early 70’s there was no Oregon wine industry, no IPNC and no Dijon clones. Heck Oregon and Pinot Noir we’re not even thought of in the same sentence.Today it is just accepted that Oregon is where you plant Pinot Noir. It’s as if it always was. That all changed
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Marc Mondavi of Charles Krug at Suite 100
Dear OenophileThere was Robert and there was Peter both sons of Cesare Mondavi. Robert went on to found the Robert Mondavi winery and Peter went on to grow the Charles Krug Winery, both famous Napa Valley icons. Marc is Peter’s son. He grew up in Napa, went to High School there and has seen Napa
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