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Interview with Catherine Douglas of Adelsheim Vineyard

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At Vinexpo 2012 in Hong Kong, I spoke briefly with Catherine Douglas, Manager of Export Sales for Adelsheim Vineyard, located Willamette Valley, Oregon.

The winery was established in 1971 by David Adelsheim and his wife, Ginny Adelsheim, after the couple’s summer trip to Europe, where they were inspired by the artisanal foods and wines they tried. Since then, Adelsheim has continued to be a family-owned and operated winery, which relies on sustainable farming, combining traditional and modern techniques to craft elegant, complex wine with a great richness in flavor and texture.

Chairman of VINEXPO Madame Dominique Heriard Dubreuil, Chief Executive of VINEXPO Mr. Robert Beynat and Mr. Gregory So, Kam-Leung, JP meet David Adelsheim at Vinexpo 2012

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Organic wine & food matching: Maysara Jamsheed Pinot Noir & Szechuan baby back ribs

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When Oregon’s “Papa Pinot,” the recently departed David Lett of Eyrie Vineyards, planted his first vineyard in 1965, he settled in the Dundee Hills just south, towards west, of Portland, where deep, red clay soils on bedrocks of basalt have yielded the type of gentle yet generous, red berryish, fruit driven red wines that have come epitomize Willamette Valley Pinot Noir.
During the past twenty-five years, a number of other little pockets of Willamette Valley have been successfully planted by winemakers, five of which have been identified as sufficiently unique to merit their own official AVA (American Viticultural Region) designation. Among those “other” regions: the McMinnville AVA, located a good twenty miles southwest of the Dundee Hills AVA; closer to the Pacific’s maritime influence, and tucked into coastal mountain hillsides where slightly dryer weather and brighter days are offset by cooler nights and significantly shallower soils than that of Dundee. Continue reading →
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