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Playhouse Wine Festival Trade Tasting
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There's nothing like skipping out on work to sip wine, which is exactly what Stacey and I did at the Playhouse Wine Festival Trade Tasting one Friday afternoon.The theme country for the 2008 Festival is Italy, so we took our New World Palettes and sampled Italia. The Sangiovese grape, which was elevated to a group discussion at the festival's Wine Seminarium, figures prominently in many Italian blends. While not always the case, the wines from southern and central Italy had an earthiness that we are not accustomed to. We encountered lots of spicy blends, too.We crossed the floor, literally,...
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NW Wine Summit under way
The Wine Press Northwest crew is up on Mount Hood for the annual Northwest Wine Summit, the largest judging of Pacific Northwest wines.This year, we have nearly 1,200 entries, a big increase over last year's 1,060. Judges the South and Pacific Northw...
23 views | aggregated: 29 weeks 3 days ago
topics: wine
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NW Wine Summit drawing to a close
We're wrapping up the superlative rounds for the massive Northwest Wine Summit competition at Timberline Lodge on Oregon's Mount Hood.Some 20 judges have been tasting through more than 1,150 wines since Sunday afternoon. This is, by far, the largest ...
34 views | aggregated: 29 weeks 2 days ago
topics: wine, wine-competition
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Is Riesling the greatest white wine grape?
The Wine Press Northwest crew is prepping for a Riesling judging this weekend, and I am salivating as I enter wines into our database.While Chardonnay still is far and away the most popular white wine in America, I have to think that Riesling is the ...
24 views | aggregated: 28 weeks 1 day ago
topics: white-wine, wine
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Gassy Jack
"Gassy Jack" by The Evaporators (SOCAN). Video directed by Jason Margolis from the CD/LP &...
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When Jesse Was Born
Explores the turbulent, sometimes painful, and often humorous lives of one blue-collar family as the...
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A Piece of Glass
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