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		<title>Wine Country Lodging</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re headed out to Carlton for one our events, or just a day of wine tasting &#8211; why not make a weekend of it, and consider the following recommendations for B&#38;B lodging: Abbey Road Farm Bed &#38; 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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When you&#8217;re headed out to Carlton for one our events, or just a day of wine tasting &#8211; why not make a weekend of it, and consider the following recommendations for B&amp;B lodging:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Abbey Road Farm Bed &amp; Breakfast</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Allison</p>
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<p>Black Walnut Inn</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Carlton Inn</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Carlton Cottages</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Youngberg Hill Vineyards &amp; Inn</p>
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		<title>Scott Paul Wines Locations and Hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2015 20:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portland/Scott Paul PDX:  2537 NW Upshur.  Open Fridays 5-8 pm 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]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Portland/Scott Paul PDX:</strong>  2537 NW Upshur.  Open Fridays 5-8 pm</p>
<p><strong>Carlton Tasting Room:</strong> 128 South Pine Street.  Saturday Tastings and Events 12-5.  Retail Hours Tuesday-Friday 12-5.</p>
<p>More Information on <a href="http://www.scottpaul.com/where-to-buy/tasting-room">Visting Scott Paul Wines</a> in Carlton and Portland</p>
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		<title>Discover Scott Paul Wines Night at Scott Paul PDX, Friday June 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight in NW Portland at Scott Paul PDX, 5-8 pm This is a GREAT night to visit for the first time, or to grab a friend that you&#8217;ve been wanting to introduce to our wines. We&#8217;re a bit &#8220;different&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;s for sure! We are top-rated producers of Oregon Pinot Noir who just happen to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tonight in NW Portland at Scott Paul PDX, 5-8 pm</p>
<p>This is a GREAT night to visit for the first time, or to grab a friend that you&#8217;ve been wanting to introduce to our wines. We&#8217;re a bit &#8220;different&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;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!</p>
<p>Tonight&#8217;s flight is perfectly representative of Scott Paul Wines &#8211; that is, we&#8217;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&#8217;ll taste our own Oregon Pinot followed by a stellar grower Champagne!</p>
<p><strong>Bring a friend and get 2 flights for the price of 1!</strong> Tasting fee is $10, refundable with any 3-bottle purchase</p>
<p>And for you regulars, watch Facebook for the code word for a Super Pour that Scott will have behind the bar.</p>
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		<title>In Portland &#8211; White Burgundy &amp; Cheeses Friday May 31st</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 23:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us at Scott Paul PDX on Friday night May 31st from 5-8p for a special flight of top White Burgundies, paired with a great selection of cheeses from our friends at Cheese Bar. White Burgundy and cheese is a marriage made in heaven, each bringing out the best in the other. Come taste for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us at <a href="http://www.scottpaul.com/where-to-buy/tasting-room" target="_blank"><strong>Scott Paul PDX</strong></a> on Friday night May 31st from 5-8p for a special flight of top White Burgundies, paired with a great selection of cheeses from our friends at <a href="http://cheese-bar.com/" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/cheese-bar.com/?referer=');">Cheese Bar</a>. White Burgundy and cheese is a marriage made in heaven, each bringing out the best in the other. Come taste for yourself!</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll be pouring: 2011 Chablis l&#8217;Homme Mort 1er Cru from <strong>Frédéric Gueguen</strong>, 2009 Pouilly-Fuissé Les Birbettes from <strong>Chateau des Rontets</strong>, 2010 Meursault Vieilles Vignes and 2010 Meursault Bouches-Chères 1er Cru from <strong>Buisson-Charles</strong>, and 2010 Chassagne-Montrachet from <strong>Benjamin Leroux</strong>. We&#8217;ll have them paired up with different cheeses, and you&#8217;re free to mix-and-match to see which combinations you like best.</p>
<p>Tasting fee is $10, refundable with any 3-bottle purchase of the featured wines.</p>
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		<title>In Carlton &#8211; Memorial Day Weekend Open House</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 23:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join us in Carlton for the annual summer kick-off celebration- we&#8217;ll be open 12n-5p on Saturday &#38; Sunday, May 25th &#38; 26th, pouring a flight of our top-rated Pinot Noir, along with delicious Burgundies from our hand-selected import portfolio. It&#8217;s a great weekend to visit wine country and taste and buy &#8211; we look forward [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Join us in Carlton for the annual summer kick-off celebration- we&#8217;ll be open <strong>12n-5p on Saturday &amp; Sunday, May 25th &amp; 26th</strong>, pouring a flight of our top-rated Pinot Noir, along with delicious Burgundies from our hand-selected import portfolio.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a great weekend to visit wine country and taste and buy &#8211; we look forward to seeing you here!</p>
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<p>Tasting fee is $10, refundable with any 3-botle purchase.</p>
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		<title>Pizza and Pinot, Friday May 24</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Paul PDX, 5-8 pm We&#8217;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!! So join us for a taste of our Scott Paul Pinot, plus a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.scottpaul.com/where-to-buy/tasting-room" target="_blank">Scott Paul PDX,</a> 5-8 pm</p>
<p>We&#8217;re gearing up for <strong>Memorial Day Weekend in Wine Country</strong>, 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!!</p>
<p>So join us for a taste of our Scott Paul Pinot, plus a couple of nice Burgundies to go with savory  little flat-bread pizzas.</p>
<p>Tasting fee $10, refundable with 3 bottle purchase.</p>
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		<title>In Carlton &#8211; Sat, May 18th pre-Memorial Day Champagne Extravaganza!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 23:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weekend BEFORE Memorial Day weekend has become one of the best weekends of the year in Oregon Wine Country &#8211; as many of the top wineries conduct special tastings of higher-end or limited production bottlings. At Scott Paul, our tradition for this weekend has become CHAMPAGNE, as in Grower Champagne &#8211; micro-production hand-crafted Champagnes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The weekend BEFORE Memorial Day weekend has become one of the best weekends of the year in Oregon Wine Country &#8211; as many of the top wineries conduct special tastings of higher-end or limited production bottlings. At Scott Paul, our tradition for this weekend has become CHAMPAGNE, as in Grower Champagne &#8211; micro-production hand-crafted Champagnes from the top artisans that we import directly to the US.</p>
<p>Join us in Carlton on <strong>Saturday May 18th</strong> from 12n-5p for a great flight of top Grower Champagnes, including <strong>Laherte Frères, Marc Chauvet, Vincent Couche and Pierre Brigandat!</strong></p>
<p>Tasting fee $20 for this special event (free for Champagne Club members), refundable with any 3-bottle purchase of the featured Champagnes.</p>
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		<title>Discover Scott Paul Night at Scott Paul PDX, Friday May 17</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 23:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight in NW Portland at Scott Paul PDX, 5-8 pm This is a GREAT night to visit for the first time, or to grab a friend that you&#8217;ve been wanting to introduce to our wines. We&#8217;re a bit &#8220;different&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;s for sure! We are top-rated producers of Oregon Pinot Noir who just happen to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tonight in NW Portland at<a href="http://www.scottpaul.com/where-to-buy/tasting-room" target="_blank"> Scott Paul PDX</a>, 5-8 pm</p>
<p>This is a GREAT night to visit for the first time, or to grab a friend that you&#8217;ve been wanting to introduce to our wines. We&#8217;re a bit &#8220;different&#8221; &#8211; that&#8217;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!</p>
<p>Tonight&#8217;s flight is perfectly representative of Scott Paul Wines &#8211; that is, we&#8217;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&#8217;ll taste our own Oregon Pinot followed by a stellar grower Champagne! <strong>UPDATE</strong> &#8211; here&#8217;s the flight for Friday night: <strong>2010 St. Véran Champ Rond</strong>, Domaine Thibert, <strong>2010 Mercurey Vieilles Vignes</strong>, Domaine Ninot, <strong>2010 La Paulée Pinot Noir,</strong> Scott Paul Wines, and the <strong>Carte Blanche Brut</strong> from Champagne Forget-Chemin!</p>
<p><strong>Bring a friend and get 2 flights for the price of 1! </strong>Tasting fee is $10, refundable with any 3-bottle purchase.</p>
<p>And for you regulars, watch <a href="https://www.facebook.com/scottpaulwinery?ref=ts" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.facebook.com/scottpaulwinery?ref=ts&amp;referer=');">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/scottpaulpn" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/twitter.com/scottpaulpn?referer=');">Twitter </a>for the code word for a Super Pour that Scott will have behind the bar.</p>
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		<title>Checking in on the 2012s &#8211; wow!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 22:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would not be fair to say that our 2012 wines are better than expected, because we knew they were especially good from the moment the fruit arrived at the winery. Kelley Fox and I tasted through every lot in the cellar yesterday to get our first serious look at how the wines have evolved [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It would not be fair to say that our 2012 wines are better than expected, because we knew they were especially good from the moment the fruit arrived at the winery. Kelley Fox and I tasted through every lot in the cellar yesterday to get our first serious look at how the wines have evolved post-malolactic fermentation, and they are as excellent as expected, if not a notch even more exciting, if that’s possible. To say that we are jubilant would be an understatement!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-8527" title="Ferment C-U_2" src="http://www.scottpaul.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Ferment-C-U_2-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="614" height="461" /></p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>Each block of each of our vineyards performed very well in the tastings yesterday, with the standouts for me being Block 12 from <strong>Maresh</strong> and our new estate site <strong>Azana </strong>Vineyard, which shows a distinct mineral streak that absolutely thrilled me.</p>
<p>My best guess at this point is that we’ll arrive at four different cuvées for the 2012s – there will certainly be an <strong>Audrey</strong>, a <strong>La Paulée</strong>, and probably a single-vineyard bottling from <strong>Azana</strong> and another from <strong>Nysa</strong>. 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!</p>
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<div id="attachment_8526" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 624px"><img class="size-large wp-image-8526 " title="IMG_4084" src="http://www.scottpaul.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IMG_40841-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="614" height="461" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Azana Vineyard, on the south slopes of Chehalem Mountain</p></div>
<p>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…</p>
<p>More here as it happens. And don’t forget to join us this weekend  -<a href="http://www.scottpaul.com/events/discover-scott-paul-night-at-scott-paul-pdx-friday-may-17" target="_blank"> bring a friend Friday night to Scott Paul PDX</a> for 2-for-1 tasting flights and a great introduction to the world of Scott Paul, and then <a href="http://www.scottpaul.com/events/in-carlton-pre-memorial-day-champagne-extravaganza" target="_blank">Saturday here in Carlton it’s our annual pre-Memorial Day weekend Champagne extravaganza</a> – yum!</p>
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		<title>Burgundy Tasting &#8211; New Arrivals May 10 &amp; 11</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday night, May 10, 5-8 pm at Scott Paul PDX Saturday, May 11, 12-5 pm in Carlton Just in! We&#8217;ve just received our first shipment of 2011s and we&#8217;re staging a fabulous flight of Bourgogne Pinot Noir from Huber-Verdereau and Violot-Guillemard! As leading Burgundy authority Allen Meadows, aka Burghound &#8211; the 2011s are seductively delicious!! [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Friday night, May 10, 5-8 pm at<a href="http://www.scottpaul.com/where-to-buy/tasting-room" target="_blank"> Scott Paul PDX</a></p>
<p>Saturday, May 11, 12-5 pm in <a href="http://www.scottpaul.com/where-to-buy/tasting-room" target="_blank">Carlton</a></p>
<p>Just in! We&#8217;ve just received our first shipment of 2011s and we&#8217;re staging a fabulous flight of Bourgogne Pinot Noir from <a href="http://www.scottpaul.com/burgundy-import-company/huber-verdereau" target="_blank"><strong>Huber-Verdereau</strong> </a>and <strong><a href="http://www.scottpaul.com/burgundy-import-company/thierry-violot-guillemard" target="_blank">Violot-Guillemard</a>! </strong>As leading Burgundy authority Allen Meadows, aka Burghound &#8211; the 2011s are seductively delicious!! And in the hands of top producers like these, who treat their Bourgognes the same way they do their Premier Crus, the results are delicious and a great value.</p>
<p>$10 tasting fee refunded with 3 bottle purchase.</p>
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