¡Salud!

¡Salud! is an amazing non-profit that provided health care for vineyard workers. The wineries of Oregon come together to create ¡Salud! exclusive wines to auction off. If you ever get to taste these special wines, you are among the special few. Places like Archery Summit, Cristom, Ken Wright, and Domaine Serene participate and use their finest single vineyards barrels for this event, so you know it's a big freakin' deal.

Anyway, yesterday I have the privledge of tasting several of the 1999 auctions ¡Salud! wines. We had Archery Summit, Cristom, Ken Wright, Domaine Serene, Sokol Blosser, Evesham Wood, and maybe even a few others. Let's just say we had a lot of fun. It's great to know people with big wine cellars (and in the industry, they have access to all sorts of things).

I'll keep it short, there wasn't one I didn't love, 1999 was an amazing year for Oregon Pinot Noir.

Cheers! no, no, no, I mean

¡Salud!