Eric’s Lollipop Lamb Chops with Red Wine Sauce | 2021 Ewes’ View Pinot noir
Ingredients: 1 cup organic wild rice 1 rack of lamb, sliced into individual chops 2 cups of red wine 1 Shallot, finely diced 2 Tbsp of butter Freshly cracked black pepper Coarse Salt 3/4 Yukon gold...
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Looking down the road into 2024.
As I write this we have just experienced the shortest day and the longest night of the year. This morning we woke up to a very beautiful Vermont sunrise and it is no exaggeration to say that it...
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Resetting and Recentering
As I write this I am sitting at a desk in Vermont looking out at a dusting of snow (the only snow since we’ve arrived) and rare for this trip, blue skies. Nonetheless, it has been great to spend time...
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Getting Your Inner Geek On!
If you are reading this you may be a wine geek. Are you also a weather geek? Have you heard all the talk about terroir and wondered just what the fuss is? Did you know that a lot of vineyards have...
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Today I saw a Unicorn!
Today I saw a unicorn, or it might have been a snow plow, in Newberg, Oregon. If one of your pastimes isn’t following the weather out here (even after I showed you how to access our weather station)...
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The Sheep are Back!
Not so many days ago a buzz went through Winderlea. “The sheep are back, the sheep are back.” Granted a lot of the buzz came from Staci, Winderlea Ambassador, who is an animal biologist and loves...
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It’s the most wonderful time of the week
My second favorite form of fermentation is sourdough. I started making sourdough bread 7 or 8 years ago using the Tartine Bread book recipe. Chad Robertson’s story about his quest for this...
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Science Fridays
As many of you know, in 2020 we started managing an amazing vineyard a couple of miles down the road from us owned by Christine and David Vernier. Christine and David are truly wonderful people and I...
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Virtual Bill?
Each year Donna and I attend the Oregon Wine Industry Symposium. It’s a great opportunity to confer with others in the industry, participate in seminars that are helpful to our business, and see the...
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Winderlea on the road.
I’m still here!!! My very great thanks to the surprisingly (gratifyingly) large number of you who responded last week to save me from AI elimination. It was great fun. This week Donna and I are in...
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