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Today on Wine Bytes, my wine blog on OregonLive, I talk about a great sauvignon blanc find from Dry Creek Vineyards, the “Taylor’s Vineyard Musque”. I also talk about the restaurant scene here in Portland. I know times are tight but please try to consider dining out more often and keep our restaurant scene in [...]

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Today on Wine Bytes, my wine blog on OregonLive, I take a detour from wine commentary and review a local restaurant worth mentioning: Kenny & Zuke’s in Portland, a place that serves up awesome corned beef and pastrami sandwiches and a whole lot more. After reading a lot of food posts on various websites written [...]

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Today on Wine Bytes, my wine blog on OregonLive, I take a detour from wine commentary and review a local restaurant worth mentioning: Decarli’s in Beaverton, Oregon. When you enter Decarli, it feels alive with a buzz as you immediately gravitate your attention to the open kitchen where the speed, attention to detail and passion [...]

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We have a new concept in dining available here in the Portland area – the Portland Dining Club. It’s a concept about saving but it encompasses a theory that is a lot broader than that. Attracting dining dollars is a tough business to be in these days. Today on Wine Bytes, my wine blog on [...]

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I am going to veer off the vine trellis a bit and give a shout out to one of my new favorites – a brewery on the square in Healdsburg, CA right across the street from Bistro Ralph’s. A couple of summers back when I was cooking at Bohemian Grove, everywhere I went around the [...]

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While we were down in California a few weeks back for a wedding, we took advantage of all that Sonoma wine country has to offer – great wines, great beer, great restaurants, beautiful wineries and graceful hospitality. In the process, we saw old friends, visited new favorites, made some new friends and came home to [...]

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