In Cascade Lock Boona Notet Vinery, OreganMy husband and me found high piles with melon and printutto by my husband and winemaker Graham Merkel. Salad’s platers, grilled potatoes with Salsa Varde, and Rost Pork covered several candlet tables, which were celebrated with wildflivers. We came to a delayed feast to convince seven local producers, with which the markel source grapes to make its delicious Italian style wine. He is one of a handful of young winners (not to mention sidermackers like Jasper Smith and Ella McCallian son of ManThose who make a decoction of their wild-basked basket-style in one place as Merkel) Columbia Gorge On the map of alcohol. This Renegade group may not have better tasting rooms and prize winners Pinot Noars in Oregon. Wilmet valleyBut they make with their enthusiasm for what they do and the land they do so.
While Columbia George has been an official American veteran region for only 20 years, people have been growing grapes since 1840. Ancient volcanoes and glaciers floods, formed by the Colombia River, which begins British Columbia And is empty in the Pacific, dividing Oregon and Washington, spends at a distance of 309 miles of its length of 1,243 miles. Eighty miles of that border is a gorge, dramatic basalt rocks, waterfalls, and a deep river valley of some most beautiful trails Pacific northwestFor years, the city of Hood River, towards Oregon, was the main attraction for its world -class windsurfing and, recently, its craft brooariies, but we chose to live across the river in White Calman, Washington, which is close to some new winery and restaurants in the region. Tall on a rock, the best bakery in the city in the city, a fascinating wine bar, and on a clear day there are amazing views of Mount Hood.
Contrary to more rustic excavation of my previous visits (on the cabin) Society Hotel And on the glmping-style tent Skamaniya lodge), This time we stayed in the new codar-and-steel environment Ekonica And recently updated White salmonMost of the days we woke up early and hit the footpaths. We inadvertently travel our journey with the wildflower season, and on the Catherine Creek Loop, we found a riots of purple lupine and yolk yellow balsamot to the landscape. After every increase, we made a bine White salmon baking company And rewarded yourself with blueberry polenta cake or mushroom scramble.
The white salmon has only 2,600 residents, but a restaurant circuit is worthy of a very large city. We had excellent carnitas tacos Pixon Tacaria and CantinaCompletely cooked with crispy potatoes HenryAnd a delicious burrata served with mint pasteo in the tasting room Soa wine shop and barMany credit for the city’s rich food scene goes to the California-country Nina Jimanez and Slovenia-born Jur Porbaaz, who is an entrepreneur-couple, who opened the white salmon baking company and Soka before selling both to focus on their winery, Porbaz wineOne afternoon I went to the hills above the white salmon to see them. After Poberaj, the nephew of the natural winemaking pioneer, Joco Gravner, extended me from the earthen amphora, which they just buried in the ground, we tasted the wine directly from the barrel.
“We are very serious about having fun,” Malia Myers said, with a melani shamit, established the Landmas Wine. I laughed because she and Schmit showed me around the vinery opened in a cascade lock in 2023: Wine tank is named after female screen characters, such as Regina (Se (Se) mean Girls) And oxan (from Killing EveThe couple made their business through Instagram, delivered the house during the epidemic.
