Avoid the Christmas Rush, Embrace the Thanksgiving Crush
November 23rd, 2007
Dreading the post-Thanksgiving Christmas Crush of Commercialism?
This weekend, enjoy a different kind of crush and venture into the pastoral Oregon wine country for the 2007 Thanksgiving Wine Country weekend.
A favorite tradition of wine enthusiasts, it’s an opportunity to visit many of the smaller Oregon wineries that only open twice a year–Thanksgiving and Memorial Day.
Because they don’t have formal tasting and retail space, the smaller wineries open up the production floor near their barrels, invite cheesemakers, bakers and other food artisans, and provide the first tastings from the 2006 crush. Of course, the larger winemakers are open too, but you can visit them just about any weekend.
You’ll find a wide variety of wineries, wine bars, barns, and cellars throughout Gaston, Forest Grove, Newberg, Carlton, Lafayette, Gaston, McMinnville, Scholls, Dundee and south to Salem to be open Friday through Sunday, with entrance fees ranging from free to well over $20.
So, grab your mobile GPS, print out the map and winery list and head out. The weekend’s weather forecast is making for an unforgettable scenic and gustatorial adventure.
Here’s the map and list of participating wineries in the Willamette Valley tour. My picks: Sineann and Brick House.
And, if you’re in the market for wine property, you’ll want to look up Peter Bouman of GMAC Realty, who is both a winemaker and wine country real estate specialist. Ask me for his number or look for him pouring for the Sineann label this weekend.
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1. Leigh | November 26th, 2007 at 6:57 am
More food for thought as you encourage folks to buy over-priced homes…and homes outside of what their budget allows…
Excerpt from article…
Cheap credit has fostered another development that was crucial in creating the current state of things: It unleashed a wave of mortgages with exotically lenient terms, such as interest-only payments and no money down. That allowed buyers to take on more expensive homes than they could have otherwise afforded. As home values rose much the way dot-com stocks had a decade earlier, banks offered loans and no-fuss refinancing that allowed homeowners to turn increased value into money. From 2004 to 2006, Americans took more than $800 billion a year out of their homes, according to most estimates.
With prices now plummeting and banks savaged by mortgage losses, this artery of credit is drying up. The American consumer, a crucial engine of growth for the global economy, may finally be tapped out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/weekinreview/
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2. wine country&hellip | December 5th, 2007 at 3:30 am
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