Abbey Road Farm Bed & Breakfast

http://www.abbeyroadfarm.com/

The Allison

http://www.theallison.com

Black Walnut Inn

http://www.blackwalnut-inn.com/

Brookside Inn

http://www.brooksideinn-oregon.com/

The Carlton Inn

http://www.thecarltoninn.com/

Carlton Cottages

http://www.carltoncottages.com/

Inn At Red Hills

http://www.innatredhills.com

R.R. Thompson House Bed & Breakfast

http://www.rrthompsonhouse.com/

Winery Lofts

http://www.vrbo.com/306590

Youngberg Hill Vineyards & Inn

http://www.youngberghill.com/

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Carlton Tasting Room: 128 South Pine Street.  Saturday Tastings and Events 12-5.  Retail Hours Tuesday-Friday 12-5.

More Information on Visting Scott Paul Wines in Carlton and Portland

This is a GREAT night to visit for the first time, or to grab a friend that you’ve been wanting to introduce to our wines. We’re a bit “different” – that’s for sure! We are top-rated producers of Oregon Pinot Noir who just happen to also import Burgundies and grower Champagnes from small family producers in France!

Tonight’s flight is perfectly representative of Scott Paul Wines – that is, we’re going to pour for you a beautiful crisp white Burgundy and then an outstanding red Burgundy from one of our favorite producers. Then you’ll taste our own Oregon Pinot followed by a stellar grower Champagne!

Bring a friend and get 2 flights for the price of 1! Tasting fee is $10, refundable with any 3-bottle purchase

And for you regulars, watch Facebook for the code word for a Super Pour that Scott will have behind the bar.

We’ll be pouring: 2011 Chablis l’Homme Mort 1er Cru from Frédéric Gueguen, 2009 Pouilly-Fuissé Les Birbettes from Chateau des Rontets, 2010 Meursault Vieilles Vignes and 2010 Meursault Bouches-Chères 1er Cru from Buisson-Charles, and 2010 Chassagne-Montrachet from Benjamin Leroux. We’ll have them paired up with different cheeses, and you’re free to mix-and-match to see which combinations you like best.

Tasting fee is $10, refundable with any 3-bottle purchase of the featured wines.

UPDATE – TASTING FLIGHT FOR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND: 2010 Mâcon-Prissé from Domaine Thibert, 2010 Scott Paul La Paulée, 2011 Scott Paul The Long Run, and the Francis Cossy Brut Grower Champagne. Yum! (See our Facebook & Twitter feeds for the code word to get a taste of the 2011 Audrey!)

It’s a great weekend to visit wine country and taste and buy – we look forward to seeing you here!

Tasting fee is $10, refundable with any 3-botle purchase.

We’re gearing up for Memorial Day Weekend in Wine Country, but first we want to give PDX peeps a chance to take part in the festivities a little closer to home, without having to face Hwy 99!!

We’re releasing our limited-production Pinots – the 2011 Audrey and 2011 Long Run this weekend, and will be pouring Burgundy & Champagne to go with some savory flat-bread pizzas. UPDATE – TASTING FLIGHT FOR FRIDAY NIGHT: 2010 Mâcon-Prissé from Domaine Thibert, 2010 Scott Paul La Paulée, 2011 Scott Paul The Long Run, and the Francis Cossy Brut Grower Champagne. Yum! (See our Facebook & Twitter feeds for the code word to get a taste of the 2011 Audrey!)

Tasting fee $10, refundable with 3 bottle purchase.

For a number of years in a row now, every one of our wines has scored 90 or above from every national critic that’s reviewed them, and our streak continues with the advance word we received yesterday from Wine Enthusiast. Our 2010 Audrey, Les Gourmandises and La Paulée will be rated 92, 91 & 90 respectively in Paul Gregutt’s reviews in the August issue. Getting a good score here or there is one thing, but doing it year after year, in challenging vintages and easy ones, makes me proud and happy. Proud of winemaker Kelley Fox, happy that our quest for elegance and balance is finding success on a consistent basis.

Thank you for supporting us throughout the years. I can’t believe we’re headed for our 15th harvest this fall! It’s been a tremendous ride so far – cant wait to see what the next 15 bring. Hang on…

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Meanwhile in Burgundy and Champagne, our friends are having a very ‘Oregonian” springtime in the vineyards. Cold and wet. And late. Domaine Buisson-Charles in Meursault reports steady rain for 3+ weeks.  (They just launched an excellent new blog, btw.) Domaine Violot-Guillemard in Pommard emailed this morning to ask how we handled our cold, wet, late spring in 2010 & 2011. All of our producers in Champagne are lamenting the cold, the rain, and the slow start to the season. They’re about 3-4 weeks behind at this point, but of course we’ll likely see many twists and turns before the grapes are ready this fall. Maybe this year we’ll be early in Oregon and they’ll be late in Burgundy for a change.

Burgundy's Clos Vougeot in the morning fog...

What we need to cross our fingers and pray for is a normal-sized crop in Burgundy this year. After the three low-yielding years of 2010, 2011 & 2012, another small vintage could be the crippling blow for a number of producers who might not have the financial strength to survive. None of the producers in our portfolio are in jeopardy, but a number of their neighbors are, and I don’t want to see that happen to anyone. The life of a vigneron is tough enough even in the good times. Please join me in sending some dry, warm, sunny days to Burgundy and Champagne asap.

I leave for Burgundy in three weeks, and I’m getting excited for the annual Insider’s Tour that I lead for a group of our customers, as well as seeing all of our producers and catching up on the 2012s in barrel. Oh yeah, and the food. And a week of full-on hedonism with Le Pigeon Chef Gabe Rucker. Watch this space for all the stories, pictures, and incriminating evidence to come!

Join us in Carlton on Saturday May 18th from 12n-5p for a great flight of top Grower Champagnes, including Laherte Frères, Marc Chauvet, Vincent Couche and Pierre Brigandat!

Tasting fee $20 for this special event (free for Champagne Club members), refundable with any 3-bottle purchase of the featured Champagnes.

This is a GREAT night to visit for the first time, or to grab a friend that you’ve been wanting to introduce to our wines. We’re a bit “different” – that’s for sure! We are top-rated producers of Oregon Pinot Noir who just happen to also import Burgundies and grower Champagnes from small family producers in France!

Tonight’s flight is perfectly representative of Scott Paul Wines – that is, we’re going to pour for you a beautiful crisp white Burgundy and then an outstanding red Burgundy from one of our favorite producers. Then you’ll taste our own Oregon Pinot followed by a stellar grower Champagne! UPDATE – here’s the flight for Friday night: 2010 St. Véran Champ Rond, Domaine Thibert, 2010 Mercurey Vieilles Vignes, Domaine Ninot, 2010 La Paulée Pinot Noir, Scott Paul Wines, and the Carte Blanche Brut from Champagne Forget-Chemin!

Bring a friend and get 2 flights for the price of 1! Tasting fee is $10, refundable with any 3-bottle purchase.

And for you regulars, watch Facebook and Twitter for the code word for a Super Pour that Scott will have behind the bar.

From day one we’ve thought that the 2012s will be among the best Oregon has ever produced, possibly the best yet. It should certainly rank up there with 2008 and 2002 as the best vintages we’ve ever experienced. The wines are beautifully balanced, with alcohol levels in the mid-13s, rich mid-palate fruit that is just flat-out delicious, and they have the concentration and structure to age nicely for 10+ years yet they should drink beautifully on release. It just doesn’t get much better than that!

Each block of each of our vineyards performed very well in the tastings yesterday, with the standouts for me being Block 12 from Maresh and our new estate site Azana Vineyard, which shows a distinct mineral streak that absolutely thrilled me.

My best guess at this point is that we’ll arrive at four different cuvées for the 2012s – there will certainly be an Audrey, a La Paulée, and probably a single-vineyard bottling from Azana and another from Nysa. We’ll make the final decisions and blends in about three weeks, just before I leave for my next trip to  Burgundy. We’ll bottle these lovelies in August, and may release the first of them in the spring of 2014, a year or so from now. So now that I’ve got you all excited about them, please forget about them for a year or so. Thank-you!

Azana Vineyard, on the south slopes of Chehalem Mountain

Meanwhile, the 2013 season is off to a nice start here in Oregon, with this dry and warmer than usual spring pushing nice early growth in the vineyards, and everything is looking healthy and strong at this point. We could frankly use some rain over the next few weeks – our January through April this year has been the driest in a long time, and it appears we have a warm and dry summer headed our way. Flowering should be happening around June 15th-20th this year, putting us on schedule for a “normal” season, which would mean harvest around September 25th or thereabouts (all subject to change a few dozen times over the course of the season, bien sûr!). In Burgundy and Champagne, they’re having a very wet and cool spring, and things are running later than usual, at least 2-3 weeks behind at this point…

More here as it happens. And don’t forget to join us this weekend  - bring a friend Friday night to Scott Paul PDX for 2-for-1 tasting flights and a great introduction to the world of Scott Paul, and then Saturday here in Carlton it’s our annual pre-Memorial Day weekend Champagne extravaganza – yum!