Along the street: Downtown shop will have new owners, new name, new location
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Mike Miller, coordinator of the Sip! McMinnville Food & Wine Classic wine competition, left, considers a bottle of wine with Carl Giavanti, competition publicist, and Rolland Toevs, competition manager during the event Saturday, March 27, at Abbey Road Farms. About 200 Oregon wines were entered in the 2021 event.
Meg and Zach Hixson have purchased the downtown clothing and home goods store Yamhill Valley Dry Goods from Sylla McClellan, who also owns Third Street Books.
The Hixsons plan to change the store’s name to Left By West. They also will move it one block east, from its current location at 416 N.E. Third St. to 512 N.E. Third.
Highest Number of Medals Awarded as Oregon Wine Quality Impresses Judges April 01, 2021
McMinnville, OR, March 31, 2021: The McMinnville Wine & Food Classic completed its 28th annual wine competition on Saturday 3/27/21 despite Covid restrictions. Judging was postponed from January 9th due to the pandemic. The wine competition supports the main event – the consumer festival in March - which has been canceled until 2022. Both the competition and festival are dedicated fundraisers for McMinnville s St. James Catholic School and have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for programs benefiting the school s children. Organized and staffed entirely by volunteers, the Classic is one of the largest community events of the year in Oregon. For more information, visit https://macclassic.org/
Two Hudson Valley wines were awarded best in class in one of the wine world s most prestigious contests.
The 35th Annual New York Wine Classic announced the best wines of 2021, and two vintages from the Hudson Valley took top honors in their respective categories. The contest included 607 entries from 96 wineries. The wines were judged from November through February by various beverage directors, sommeliers, top bartenders, retail buyers and educators from across the state.
In the category of Best Cabernet Sauvignon, the best in class award went to Brotherhood Winery for their 2017 New York Premium Selection Cabernet Sauvignon. America s oldest winery, Brotherhood has been making wine in Washingtonville since 1839. The winery even has a unique network of underground cellars that were excavated by hand in the late 19th Century.
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Groot Constantia, South Africa’s oldest wine producing Estate – with a history that stretches back 335 years – has announced that they are cracking open their Vintage Vault and making limited quantities of some of the rarest, and best, wines in the country available for purchase.
The Vintage Vault at Groot Constantia is housed in underground cement tanks which were originally built in the 1940’s and used to make wine. They were subsequently converted into a storage cellar that offers perfect, consistent temperatures and humidity for storing and ageing wines.
Over the years this veritable treasure trove has been stocked with some of the rarest and most prized vinicultural masterpieces in the world. An example includes the Groot Constantia Chardonnay 2013, which won the Best Chardonnay in the World award in 2015, as well as a few precious bottl
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