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Articles from February 2008
Wine Primers have come to Vinocellar. Actually, they've been here for quite a while, but were hard to find, buried deep in our Wine Forums. It seems it was Winetex's goal to bring these valuable bits of information out of the darkness, and into the light... again! Winetex has created a new post in the Wine Learning Center section of the Wine Forums. In this post, there have been great discussions about many different wine related topics, such as: Topless Decanting, Wine Maturity Curves, and Primers about different regions of wine country, both here in the States and abroad. Check out this valuable list of information by clicking the Read More... link below. Thanks again Winetex, at least someone has figured out how to search VinoCellar! 
Seamus Campbell posted a great Wine Country Report about his recent trip to Willamette Valley with three of this "wine-interested-but-not-wino friends" that I think you'll enjoy. Click the Read More... link for more. - Brad ------------- I went with three wine-interested-but-not-wino friends out to Newberg this weekend for the primary purpose of picking up '06 wines from Le Cadeau and Prive and the secondary purpose of tasting and enjoying an afternoon out of the city.
With a 3 pm appointment at LC and an "after LC" appointment at Prive, I wanted to fill in the early part of the afternoon with two more stops. Chehalem was my first addition, in no small part because winemaker Harry Peterson-Nedry is an entertaining writer (see the newsletter on the Chehalem website for examples). He also makes one of the three current LC wines.
I was hoping to arrange a tasting at Owen Roe, to add some diversity to the lineup we'd be tasting through (in the form of Washington State Rhone and Bordeaux varietal wines) as well as ensuring that there would be wines that my friends would find affordable, but they were all booked for the day. August Cellars (which houses wine production for seven wineries) was my next choice, but I decided at the last minute to switch to Rex Hill, knowing that they're part of the same ownership as Francis Tannahill (another LC cuvee producer). We had weather as perfect as it gets in early February in Yamhill County -- sun, gentle breezes, good visibility across the valley.
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It seems Winetex has taken it upon herself to gather together some information found around the VinoCellar Wine Forums about the Wine Retailers that members of VinoCellar seem to frequent often and buy wine from. Many of these wine retailer reports have been posted by other valuable members of VinoCellar, and their experiences with these retailers are detailed in these posts. Winetex gathered all the wine retailer reports into one big forum post for us. So thanks go out to this prolific poster who's just about to break 10,000 posts on Vinocellar, as of this writing. (Winetex might break that number in another hour or so).
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