Wine Country Easter Grill
There’s a great tradition in the Oregon wine industry that I was introduced to when we first moved here many years ago. Every Easter there is a huge open house party/barbecue/pot-luck/easter-egg hunt on the grounds of John Davidson’s nursery outside of McMinnville. John is one of the owners of Walnut City Wineworks, and began this celebration way back as a staff and family party for the crew of Tina’s Restaurant in Dundee, of which he was part-owner at the time. It has grown over the years, and now is packed with winemakers, restaurateurs, vineyard crews, tons and tons of kids, and more food than even this large crowd could consume.
Everybody brings something – a salad, a side-dish, a dessert, or several bottles of wine, and then massive amounts of sausage, flank steak, ribs, foot-longs, and oysters hit the grill. Even when the weather isn’t terribly cooperative, as in yesterday, it’s a massively fun and festive day that we look forward to every year.
Huge thanks to John and everyone for their immense contributions of time, work, money and meat – we are deeply appreciative of the opportunity to be a part of this community and great event year after year.
And here’s Fred Carlos (the sausage guy at all the Portland farmer’s markets) busy at the grill with several pounds of sizzling goodness…
