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These simple do’s and don’ts are rooted in respect, curiosity, and elegance to elevate your tasting experience and make you the most gracious wine lover in the room.

“I am in love with a plant [garlic] that yearns for friendship with each gardener through a succession of three seasons in the field, a plant shaped by personality and flavor.” -Scott Chaskey, This Common Ground Autumn is a quiet time of year in a garden, a time for deep reflection. The spider webs hang…

Knowing how to recognize common wine faults can transform your wine tasting experience and allow you to use terms that put you ahead of the curve.

“When the natural world is understood as a gift instead of private property, there are ethical constraints on the accumulation of abundance that is not yours to own.” -Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry Some may know that I tend two gardens, one at my home and the community garden at Brooks. Summer days often find…

“There is a time for hope, and there is a time for realism. But what is needed now is beyond hope and realism. This is a time when we ought to dedicate ourselves to bringing about the greatest shift in human consciousness and in the way we live.” – Ben Okri, Tiger Work There is…

“We live in such a time now, when our collective actions over the next several years will decide whether earthly life will continue its descent into ecological ruin and death or flourish in beauty and diversity.” -Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness It’s not often that I walk the garden…

Fire up the grill! Oregon’s diverse wine scene offers something for every grill master and every guest at your next BBQ bash.

“The shape of time and space is different in wilderness. Time is something encountered through the sense not imposed upon the mind. We walk, we sit, we eat, we sleep, we look, we smell, we touch, we hear, we taste our own feral nature. What we know in a wild place is largely translated through…

Complex and sophisticated, non-alcoholic wines continue to impress. Explore how NA wine are is made and why you might want to try a few.

“I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck…

5 tips for understanding how to properly store wine is crucial to maintaining its flavor, aroma, and overall quality over time.

“But what happens if joy is not separate from pain? What if joy and pain are fundamentally tangled up with one another. Or even more to the point, what if joy is not only entangled with pain, or suffering, or sorrow, but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those…

By focusing on a few key factors, wine tasters and buyers can make confident and informed choices without feeling lost.

“To restore the land one must live and work in a place. The place will welcome whomever approaches it with respect and attention. To work in a place is to bond to a place: people work together in place, become a community, in time, grows a culture. To restore the wild is to restore culture.”…

Pairing wine with traditional Irish recipes enhances the flavors of each dish while offering a unique and sophisticated approach to St. Patrick’s Day dining.

Cooking with wine is the time-honored traditional way to enhance your culinary creations.

Key Terms and Tips for Confidently Communicating Your Wine Preferences So You Always Have Pleasant Tasting Experience

“Trillons of leaves, tender and green, live, die and fall each year. So fragile, so temporary. So essential to every towering tree that bathes in the starlight of centuries. It is an old truth of nature that softness often holds the key to enduring strength.” -Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You There…