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October is recognized as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and you can provide your support by purchasing the Borracha’s “Cheers to a Cure” package to support The Breast Cancer Care program at Marian Medical Center. The Breast Cancer Care Program at Marian Medial Center provides free medical services to patients in need including mammograms, dietary [...]

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What is the best soil for Pinot Noir? No subject sparks more partisan debate in Oregon’s wine industry except perhaps whether David Lett or Charles Coury was the first to plant Pinot Noir in the Willamette Valley. This post may get a little long, but the intensity of interest merits a scholarly approach. Pinot Noir [...]

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The French have an expression that relates the taste of a wine to the place in which it was grown: gout de terroir. It is loosely translated to taste of the earth or sense of place. Winemakers in every country try to identify such relationships for two reasons. First, it may help them understand their [...]

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What is it about obscure grapes that grab my attention? The obvious is that they are unique. They usually don’t draw much attention outside of wine circles and they certainly don’t end up in most folks cellars. But hopefully by the end of this post, you’ll look a little closer at a grape that I [...]

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The Columbia Gorge AVA is an area of grape growers and wineries that if you do not live in the northwest, is usually lumped into the Columbia River AVA most often. It is a separate region that to the west almost connects to the Willamette Valley and to the east lays the Columbia River AVA. [...]

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Back in the 90’s I worked for Guenoc & Langtry Estates in Lake County. I moved there because I saw huge potential for wineries to make their mark in an up and coming region. Almost fifteen years later, the landscape has not changed much but the region has grown exponentially as nearly 40 vintners and [...]

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