5 days after I put the Willamette valley into the Garmin
(back on 9/14) I am actually made it to
Oregon Wine country today. It’s funny
how things just work out on this trip, but
the incredible thing is having time to explore those little diversions that
occur along the way, and how much fun
they end up being.
I started the day with Firesteed, I have had their wines before, but I did not know about the Citation
line. Wow! Deb was a great host and she helped me pick a
route for the day. The picture of the
Pinot Noir grapes are from their estate vines.
Next was Nameste’ Vineyards.
I stopped mainly for the name but they had some very interesting
wines. I bought their 2007 Big Red
Reserve, which is a merlot that was
barrel aged for 3 years. Next was on to
Van Duzer (the fall grape picture) and then to Red Hawk. Red Hawk would have had tremendous
views, of 3 mountains, but I could not see anything due to the haze
of the fires, oh well maybe next time.
The last stop was Bethel Heights. They had a number of very good wines, and I ended up buying the 2009 Libertine very
reserve Pinot Noir. I have never tasted
a Pinot quite like this one. It was
produced only because they had a very large harvest in 2009, and picked the best of the best grapes for
this wine. Well 5 wineries and a number
of tastes and I was done, so I wanted to
continue my wine region tradition of spending the night overlooking the
vineyards. The owner of Bethel Heights
was gracious enough to grant my request and I got to see a beautiful sunset
over the vineyards.
The 3rd wine region on my trip, 3 nights over looking vineyards, don’t know
how it can get much better than this….
Off to see the Oregon Coast tomorrow!
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