Oregon Pinot Camp 2009

What a amazing, crazy, exhausting weekend we had.  Over 250 industry folk arrived from around the country last Saturday for the 4 day event.  There was A LOT of amazing Pinot Noirs as well as many other kinds of Oregon wines to taste, tasting workshops, vineyard workshops, awesome dinners and a great night a the infamous Lumpy’s.  

Each year I am a camp counselor, which means I get to ride on the school bus (yes a yellow school bus!) with 45 campers.  It is a pretty awesome experience for me because...

Having Fun in the Sun All Memorial Weekend

Haunting the 2009 Northwest Wine Summit

On May 4, 2009, I ascended into a cloud to a great chalet half-buried in snow on the downslope of mount Hood. I passed through the entry quonset Monday morning, not to leave Timberline Lodge’s hallowed halls till Wednesday afternoon, not even to get a breath of fresh air. I was there to taste, and taste I did as a judge for the Northwest Wine Summit, the largest wine competition in the Northwest.

The NWWS, in its fourteenth year, is run by two Georgian gentlemen: Parks Redwine, an urbane yet down-home raconteur, and Tom Reagan, a jovial and earnest prankster. Their southern ways did much to ease...