Yum! Good wine here. Funny signs. Friendly people.
Category Archives: Whites
Cougar Crest
Slow service, miserly pours, indifferent product and no breadsticks. Meh. However …. Cheese in a can.
Mmmmm can cheese. How do they milk the cougars?
Well, our review of this place is certainly skewed by the above average quality of the previous winery stop. The bar had been raised.
Waterbrook
FaFancy-schmancy! The nicest building of the tour so far. Looks like a great place to have an event. There was a tragedy though. We were playing frisbee with the wine doggie and gad! I threw the dang thing into the pond by mistake! Very very sad doggie.
This place will also fill your wine growler.
Le E’cole #41
Pretty location. And they let you ring the bell.
Woodward Canyon Winery
Pleasant place. We liked their wines. They were both suave and de-boner. Our favorite part? The “salad in a jar” ready to go.
Saviah Cellars
This was our last stop of the day, conveniently right next to Sleight of Hand. We enjoyed their reds, but they were the real winner on ambiance. As you can see we joined the staff as they went off shift on the patio. Friends came by with fresh-picked wild morel mushrooms. Tristan who served us at Watermill dropped in to pick up his girlfriend who served us here. We pulled out some cheese and crackers and a good time was had by all.
Sleight of Hand Winery
We rolled into Sleight of Hand winery, just north of the Oregon / Washington state line near Walla Walla this afternoon. This place definitely rates at the high end of fun wineries to visit. The art they have hanging up is quite lovely take-offs on old posters of magic and movies. They have a whole shelf of vinyl LP’s and when I pulled out ABC’s Lexicon of Love they put that sucker right on the deck. Their motto: “punk rock wines for punk rock minds”. We took a bottle of one of their whites home, but unfortunately we enjoyed their product the least of the places we stopped today. Their reds seemed to have a sour/bitter note we didn’t like.
However, loved the experience, will definitely stop by again sometime!
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When I’m shaking a hand, I’m clenching a fist
If you gave me a pound for the moments I missed
And I got dancing lessons for all the lips I shoulda kissed
I’d be a millionaire, I’d be a Fred Astaire
Zerba
Zerba Winery. Right off the highway. Hits on all our three criteria. Bringing home port and their finest cheap red.
Watermill Winery and Blue Mountain Cider
What do want out of a winery visit?
Friendly, affordable, and decent product
If the staff are jerks, well guess how the wine will taste. Tasting fees are ok, less ok if they aren’t waived with a bottle purchase.
Oh yeah. The last of the three the product should taste good.
This place does wine and cider. Did well on all three counts. Two thumbs up.
Pastora Cream Sherry
Another nifty inexpensive sherrry! Happy day for us fans of tasty Spanish stuff!
“Cream” sherry is a sweet wine, often saved for desert. However, if you’re me (and some of you out there are) will find this yummy any time of day. This one is definitely full-flavored and it’s going down well with this delicioso Spanish chorizo which I happen to have handy. You might say it’s got a bit of carmel maybe, or maybe a bit of brown sugar flavor. For $4.99 at Trader Joe’s I say it’s darn yummy.
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry
“Sweet Sherries (Jerez Dulce in Spanish) are made either by fermenting dried Pedro Ximénez or Moscatel grapes, which produces an intensely sweet dark brown or black wine, or by blending sweeter wines or grape must with a drier variety. Cream Sherry is a common type of sweet sherry made by blending different wines.”