King Estate Goes Beyond Pinot Gris & Pinot Noir
During a recent visit to Oregon, I sampled a number of current releases from King Estate Winery, located about 30 miles south of Eugene. The winery produces three distinct wine labels sourced from Oregon vineyards: Acrobat, Signature and Domaine, while a fourth label, North by Northwest (NxNW), sources grapes from the Columbia and Walla Walla […]
Oregon’s King Estate an Incredible, Highly Recommended Winery
As Oregon’s largest winery, King Estate Winery is a full of dichotomies. The spacious 1,033-acre estate and vineyards have been carefully planned with exceptional environmental awareness; dozens of scurrying worker-bee employees treat everyone as if they’re a guest of honor; annual production is huge and yet each wine tastes like a hand-crafted gem. In short, […]
Lost River Features Tasting Rooms in Winthrop and Seattle
If you’re as much a fan of Lost River Winery as I am, you’ll know that there’s plenty to like about it. Good variety, delicious, well-crafted past and current releases, and a relatively new tasting room in Seattle to complement the original location in Winthrop are just a few of the many positives about this […]
Proper Balance is Paramount in Wine Production
Public television’s “Simply Ming” is one of my favorite cooking shows. Recently, host Ming Tsai and another chef prepared a halibut entrée that also included rice wine vinegar, orange zest, palm sugar and Swiss chard. My first thought was that this seemed like a rather odd combination of ingredients, but the point of the show […]
Wine Packaging Takes on New Forms With Good Results
Once considered a rarity, boxes, cubes, pouches, cylinders, tetra paks and even aluminum cans have become commonplace alternatives to standard wine bottles. The benefits of these types of alternative packaging have grown increasingly important as many of us try to live greener and be more environmentally conscious about our purchases. Obviously, lightweight wine packaging is […]