MEMORIAL WEEKEND

This is my husband enjoying a lovely glass of pinot noir. High Pass winery is a fave of ours as it is unpretentious like stopping by an old friends house for a chat then sitting on their patio and sipping wine. It is very country where this winery is located and appears more to be an old farm secretly tucked into the wilds of the hills and timber.

We have not been to any wineries this year and that is a must do for us. As soon as the work load lessens a little we will go to a few of them. High Pass will be on our list for sure. This year I would like to buy a case of pinot noir to be enjoyed this summer. Maybe we can find some closeouts or discounts as pinot noir is a spendy little number.
We have a small wine cooler with double doors that holds a case on each side we have one temp set for white and one for red.So we can store two cases in the cooler plus we have two large wooden wine racks that hold forty bottles combined. So if all were full that would be sixty four bottles. There were times when we lived in Sherwood Oregon next door to wine country we would have them all full. I wish they were now. We were fortunate to get very good deals on cases at some of our favorite wineries and because there were so many close by we went frequently.

Sherwood was less than ten minutes to the first winery. We would always go during the week and avoided holiday weekends like this one. There will be numerous attractions at the various wineries this weekend but also crowds of people.
There are so many wineries in the red hills of Dundee. However some of the prettiest area's and special wineries are in McMinville country. We tossed around the idea in earlier years of moving to that little berg. We spent a couple of days there checking it out though it is a lovely area we felt we could not make a decent living there. But we have been there several times to stay at the Oregon Hotel downtown owned by the McMenamin brothers.The hotel is charming with it's own resident ghost and good food. A restored 40's movie theater across the street is a step back in time. There are many tasty eatery's in town and whimsical shops of all varieties. I would say go and spend a couple of days if you have not done so, it is a sweet little town.

This seems to be a post about wine but I love that. I adore going to the different wineries, I love the vineyards, the whole process of wine intrigues me from the grape to the bottle. And of course I enjoy drinking wine. If your idea of a good time is taking in beautiful scenery, sipping local sumptuous wine, enjoying a picnic lunch by all means take a trip through your nearest wine country.

So I raise a glass of incredible Oregon wine to you. Have a fun Memorial weekend.