Wine Bid

So here is my safely guarded secret. I buy wines on WineBid.com. Okay, so not that big a secret, an easily Googled website. But it is a site where for $5 you can get a perfect bottle of Hanna 1986 Cabernet Sauvignon, properly stored in a wine cellar, and in excellent condition. I know because that's one I bought. (It was so heavenly, and if you've read even one post you know I don't grab for Cab often.) Wine Bid has realistic prices on iconic wines, and you run the same risk with Wine Bid that you do with any other wine purchase, maybe even less because dusty bottles at a bottle shop may not have been stored as well as you'd hope. Yes I had a corked bottle, one leaked in transit once, and sometimes the wines are too old. But I have dumped more expensive bottles from bottle shops and wineries for the same reasons. I have accumulated several bottles from my birth year and even my siblings birth years. It's fun to see the wine produced in the year I was born, some of us are aging very nicely I might add.

You can access Harlan, Sin Qua Non, Screaming Eagle and other cult wines here, but I find the "$25 and less category" to be a more realisticly priced treasure hunt.

So, now that I have shared my WineBid.com secret with you, I hope you check it out. And if you see someone has bid on the item by the name of "NatyE" DON'T BID, THAT'S ME!! !

Mmmm Foch

This is my cat Mmmm Foch. Her real name is Marechal Foch, but we call her Mmmm. Some times I call her Marechal. My husband calls her Miracle Fock, Fochy, and my absolute favorite, Fochizle. Mostly we just call her Mmmm.

She's three, likes sliding on our wood floor, and responds to "Mmmm." Oh and she drinks wine, I dont give her much, a little goes a long way! Just thought I'd share.

I'm married!!!

I just got married yesterday, Saturday, December 13, 2008. I wanted to share with you the vino with which we celebrated.

With dinner we served Purple Cow 2006 Muscat & 2006 Chardonnay, and Archery Summit 2006 Premier Cuvee.

For the "champagne" toast we had David Hill NV Brut Sparkling Wine.

We purchased local and delicious wines that would pair well with our meal. We had Line Caught Coho Salmon & Buffalo Tenderloin. Our cake was cherry chip with a maraschino cherry glaze filling and cream cheese filling. It was a divine meal and the wine pair well with everything. Hope my guests had as fun drinking the wine as I did pairing it well with the dinner we served them.

Cheers!

We just got a wine fridge!!!

Well, I haven't blogged about my everyday life so you'd have no clue that I just got a new apartment. As my fiance and I gear up for marrying and moving all of our crappola out of our parents for the last time we discovered we have more wine than we knew.

You know how you buy a bottle or two here and there and don't drink them right away because you have others? Well, 2 years later you'll have 8+ cases of wine, some of them needing more care than you planned on. We kept most of our wine in his parent's basement, it's always around 60 degrees and the perfect humidity all year round, a great place, and free. But now that we have to move into an apartment, it was time to get, bum bum bum... a wine fridge.

It fits only 30 bottles, but we found a way to squeeze a few more in there. It's packed full of Oregon Pinots, a few Cabs from our trip to Australia, and several random bottles I must have picked up along the way, but don't recall where. We have a mini fridge that fits 6, but we took out the racks and now it fits 5 ice wines, 2 botrytis wines, 2 pinot ports, 1 pinot port chocolate sauce, (all 350 ml tall bottles) and 2 sparklers.

I am in the market for another one as I want to get more wine into regulated temps before it gets so cold we actually turn on the heat for the season. I just can't believe how much wine I have!!! I should get it all onto cellartracker and let you see what I have, it's disgusting! Fortunately there is plenty of Archery Summit so I know there is plenty that will lay down for several years. I just hope I keep enough $10 and $20 bottles around I don't crack them open before their time!!!

20-something wine drinkers - we're out there!

Not only are we out there, we have a pallet for wine and in many cases, the money.

Greetings all. I am a 20-something wine drinker. I'm not really a snob, but it got your attention right?

Here's a quick 10 facts about me to get this blog started right.

1. I am 23 years old.
2. I like wine.
3. I drink wine regularly.
4. I like good wine.
5. I age good wine.
6. I am a woman who likes big, bold, spicy, earthy, wines. (I'll get into those bias later)
7. I am sarcastic, cynical, and a bit bitter.
8. I'm mostly bitter because when I go wine tasting I am looked down on and ignored because of my age and maybe even because of my sex.
9. I live in Oregon and have been drinking Oregon Pinot Noir for 5 years. (ignore that I'm 23)
10. I don't believe that age has anything to do with drinking wine. I work in the industry and see 25 year olds spend $2,000 on wine without blinking and have 45 year olds freak out about the price of a tasting fee. I meet middle aged people going wine tasting for the first time, while myself and other 20-something colleagues have years of experience AND education.

I hope to share my experiences in wine drinking, tasting, and share my opinions about the industry as a whole. I too have an opinion on corking and closures. I also want to share the info I have on different regions and details I find interesting.

Please be sure to read my blog with a grain of salt. I am not really a bitter person, just a sarcastic one. I'm told sometimes it is taken other than how I mean it.

One goal I have is to expose the public to the great wineries of Oregon, but more important than that I hope to encourage wineries to focus on creating memorable experience for their guests.

Being I live in Oregon wine country and go tasting a lot, I want to share my tasting notes and what I feel about each place I travel to. I have a background in agriculture, so it's important to me to see the beauty of the vineyards. They are lovely even in the dead of winter. I hope to post pics too.

I hope you'll check back often to see what's new in Oregon. As it's almost harvest time, I want to get out in some vineyards and snap some shots of grapes for sure.


Cheers!


Wineries I will blog about soon:
I will be evaluating my most recent tasting outings at Cooper Mountain, David Hill, Purple Cow, Domaine Droughin, Domaine Serene, White Rose, Archery Summit, & Kramer Vineyards.