Category: Wine
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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2017 le pigeoulet Grenache VDP Vaucluse from Selon Frederic & Daniel Brunier
Dear OenophileWell, there’s not much, but what the heck, you’ve got to know about this one! So, out of the vast sea of sameness, comes Kermit Lynch a 40 year wine veteran with extraordinary stuff. True terroir! It’s wines like these that make me stay in the game! What we have…
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2017 Parker Station Pinot Noir
Dear OenophileSome of you may remember Fess Parker. He played Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett in the 50’s and 60’s. He was hugely popular. I grew up with him. Watched him every evening after dinner, black and white TV, no remote. Oh, how brutal, but I guess I turned out…
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2014 Les Cadrans de Lassegue Saint-Emilion Grand Cru
Dear OenophileI don’t know about you but I am starved for Bordeaux. The style, aromatic and flavors all represent a sense of place. Which, when you look at it, is how Bordeaux is labeled. It’s all about the map. They name wine after a village, or a mountain, a river…