American Sparkling Wine

Exploring the land of opportunity, the land of the brave, of the free, and the land that is producing some incredible award winning sparkling wines. America is a New World wine producing country, producing around 162 million bottles of sparkling wine per year. with their sparkling wine production increasing by 4% each year since 2008.…

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Oregon Sparkling Wines Part II

I flew into Portland attending my brother’s funeral, he’d been in declining health for years stricken with failing organs, and cancer. We were brothers in the family but distant, as he was being married as an adult when I was invited to his wedding as an infant, accompanying my mother. Perhaps it was prescient having…

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Oregon Sparkling Wines

Argyle Winery of Dundee-Willamette Valley, Oregon was the vision of winemaker Rollin Soles who earned his vinous chops via hard work, and sojourns from France to Australia. In South Australia, Soles worked with the highly regarded Brian Croser, Petaluma Wines owner. Croser demonstrated the single vineyard expressions of what Clare Valley and the Adelaide Hills…

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