Quick question: What is the only grocery store in Bend with full-time wine gurus? Answer: Newport Avenue Market Suzi, our resident wine expert, is awesome! She loves wine the way Mac loves Cheese. The way a parrot loves the radio. The way Starsky loves Hutch. It’s everlasting. So it was no surprise when Suzi was […]
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Support Local This Holiday Season Wine has been in the Maragas families’ bloodline for generations. Anna Maragas brought the business on this side of the Atlantic in 1941. Her grandson, Doug Maragas founded Maragas Winery, as you know it today. He runs the family business with his grandmother Anna and his mother Joanne Lettavo (the […]
If there were one vintage not to miss out on, this would be it. Ken Wright says that “after thirty-five years of winemaking experience in Oregon and California, [he] can count the truly great years on three fingers. 1979 in California’s Monterey County, 1990 in the Willamette Valley and, yes, 2012 in the Willamette Valley […]
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Villa Cafaggio Chianti Classico 2009 Wine Enthusiast Magazine scored it 94 points saying “Here’s a beautiful Chianti Classico from Panzano’s Conca d’Oro or Golden Basin, one of the best areas in the denomination. It has compelling aromas of pipe tobacco, crushed cherry, smoke and leather. The palate delivers juicy black-cherry, plum, clove, carob and mineral. […]
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