Anne Amie Vineyards, Carlton Oregon

Vintage Berkeley

Yesterday Thomas and I spent the day doing work withs in San Francisco and Berkeley respectively.  Pictured above is Rick Mickaels from the Henry Wine Group in front of one of the coolest wine shops I've been in - Vintage Berkeley.  The shop is located on Vine Street (of course) in the old 1930's municipal water pumping station.  The focus is on small production wines and if all goes well they'll be picking up our 2007 muller thurgau!

After a long day we enjoyed dinner at Absinthe in San Francisco where we shared an assortment of oysters and a bottle of our good friends and neighbor Soter's Brut Rose.  It was pure heaven and a great reward for the last three busy days.

Thanks, we'll see you soon California!

Cheers,

Kim

The End of the Road (Show)

Today was the final "Discover Oregon Wine" Road Show at the Officer's Club at Fort Mason in San Francisco.  Wines from 40 wineries all over Oregon were showcased in this unique trade tasting event.  Chef Vitaly Paley from Paley's Place in Portland even made the trek down to pair his amazing culinary creations with our wines. 

It's interesting how so many people don't realize that Oregon even has a wine country and "you can grow cabernet and syrah in Oregon?  But it's COLD and RAINY!"  Well, we were all there to answer questions like that and more.  Oregon has 16 AVAs and with almost 400 wineries and about 800 vineyards we have a lot to offer any discerning palate. 

Today Thomas and I had fun showing off his 2007 releases - Estate Riesling and the new dry Muller Thurgau.  I love hearing "I'll skip the muller thurgau" and then after the first sip it's all they can talk about.  We also previewed our 2006 Winemaker's Selection Pinot Noir which won't be released until around Thanksgiving.  Both the '07 Riesling and '07 Muller Thurgau are available now and can be purchased from our distributors, the winery or our website.

We had a great turnout so hopefully you Californians who know a thing or two about Oregon wines will find more and more of us popping up on lists at your favorite restaurants and retail shops.

Thanks to the Oregon Wine Board for putting this all together and thanks to everyone in DC, Dallas, NYC and San Francisco who took time to come out and see us.

Cheers,

Kim

Thomas relaxing in the flowers

The view from our tasting

Gardening Day

We've been taking advantage of the nice weather this week planting in our garden and in our back yard.  Pictured above, Thomas plants fava beans while Ksandek prepares the land for his culinary herb garden.  Below Jason makes me happy by helping me plant some doug fir starts that I got for our tasting in San Francisco. 

One Year Old

Many of you have not yet met our new Director of Operations, Tim Lamers. While Tim is in charge of our daily business operations, you'll also find him on the bottling line, in the cellar during harvest and pitching in at our events. Those of you who have not yet been introduced to Tim will get a chance to meet him during one of our many summer events.

Pictured here is Tim, during a break in our bottling last week, with his son Theo, who was celebrating his first birthday. Happy Birthday Theo!