Category Archives - Drink

Enjoying Hard Ciders in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula

Beautiful weather and waterfront location in Port Townsend, Washington, and I’m there to sample and enjoy hard ciders at the Northwest Cider Association’s 4th Annual

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Escape to Favorite Yakima Valley Wineries

Yakima Valley, Washington, offers beautiful scenery, farms and food fins, and more than 75 vineyards. Kestrel Vinters and Milbrandt Vineyards were two of my favorite

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Treveri Cellars: Sparkling Wines From Washington’s Yakima Valley

Treveri Cellars produces delicious method traditionnelle sparkling wines made with Yakima Valley, Washington grapes. This sparkling wine house has a full line of high-quality, excellent

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Bale Breaker Brewing Company: Brewery on a Working Hops Farm

Beautiful Yakima Valley, Washington, just two and half hours from Seattle and three from Portland, has been a major fruit growing and agricultural area since

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Festival Offers Opportunity to Enjoy Hard Ciders

I join more than 60 artisan cider makers from Oregon, Washington, Montana and British Columbia at Northwest Cider’s Associations Portland Cider Fest. Cheers!
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Knoxville’s Fun & Vital Downtown

People walked their dogs every day at all hours in downtown Knoxville, and I love what this tells me about this navigable, livable, and fun

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Food Lover’s Guide to Downtown Knoxville

We ate well, so well, in downtown Knoxville, that I can’t choose a favorite meal. But first: the okra!
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Knoxville’s Oliver Hotel: Historic and Classy

We’re welcomed through heavy floor-to-ceiling oak doors and into a small, chic lobby by a smiling, mustached and retro-suited doorman. We’re offered iced lemon water

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Tamale Boy: Portland’s Food Cart Goes Brick and Mortar

Portland’s reputation as a food town is well-established and our love of and support for food trucks is nationally renowned. Many of our food car

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Clay Pigeon Winery, Portland, OR: Partnering Passions

Good wine, terrific cheeses, small plates of terrific food in a cool atmosphere–that Cyril’s Clay Pigeon Winery and Wine Bar. Raclette, everyone?
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Get on the Brew Bus, Bend, OR

Take a brewery bus tour  in Bend, Oregon with Wanderlust tours, touring a great sampling of the city’s breweries, and tasting some great beers and

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International Pinot Noir Celebration (IPNC), McMinnville, Oregon: A Wine and Food Extravaganza

The annual International Pinot Noir Celebration is a fabulous annual wine festival. Fantastic wines, foods, seminars, and more, all in the midst of Oregon’s Willamette

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