A First Taste of a Friend’s First Chardonnay
iOTA Cellars Expands It’s a rare opportunity to taste a winemaker’s first wine, or their first wine from a new grape. We’re long time fans of our friends at iOTA Cellars Pinot Noir. They have been producing Pinot Noir commercially since the 2006 vintage, and we have been enjoying their wines from the beginning. In … Continue reading
Are You Kidding Me? Rosé for OTBN? #WinePW
Wine Pairing Weekend and OTBN16 This year, our Wine Pairing Weekend group is getting together to share our individual experiences with #OTBN 2016. Please take a look further down in this post to jump to links for all our posts! Quiet Start to OTBN 2016 Are you familiar with “Open That Bottle Night“? OTBN is … Continue reading
All American Menu: Farmer and Winery Friends #WinePW
July Wine Pairing Weekend Assignment: All American, All French, or Somewhere In Between I chose “All American!” I’ve been spending lots of time this year exploring Italian food and wine, but sometimes it’s fun to come home to familiar ground. Especially this time of year, where we can cook almost the whole meal on the … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! We’re grateful to have our family together, visiting our daughter, Casey, in Florida. Thanksgiving Traditions Do you have any Thanksgiving traditions? One of ours is to bring some iOTA Cellars Pinot Noir for our holiday table, wherever we are. The Pelos and Sandberg families are our good friends … Continue reading
Wine and My So Called “Friends” #MWWC11
Wine Buying Problem? Me? Madeline at Wine Folly recently posted a fun quiz to determine whether I might have a wine (buying) problem. Know what? I got a perfect score! Oh wait, that might not be a good thing. Until a few years ago, wine buying wasn’t a problem. We drank maybe 4 bottles a … Continue reading
“Our Grand Meander” – Willamette Valley: iOTA Cellars
We were really looking forward to visiting our friends at iOTA Cellars. We just missed the actual grape harvest this past Tuesday, but we always love getting a chance to walk in the vineyard. The rain let up today, whew! In the vineyard you immediately notice how quickly the vines shut down after the grapes … Continue reading
Favorite Wineries – iOTA Cellars visit
Thanks to our friends and old next door neighbors, Perry and Lynne Pelos, for sparking my interest in wine. They always wanted to own a vineyard and possibly a winery. While this is a dream for many people, the team of Pelos & Sandberg made it reality with the Pelos-Sandberg vineyard and iOTA Cellars! These … Continue reading
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