Let’s Get Green.
Recycling is a great thing to do but an even better thing to do with those old wine bottles is to ‘up-cycle’ them. Now I am not a big collector of things but, I will tell you, often after a dinner party or get together there is an aray of wine bottles left around. Some are so beautiful you don’t really want to throw them away, but we’re not in college any more here kids and lining our shelves with empty old liquor and wine bottles is a thing of the past. However, there are a bunch of great ways you can up-cycle your favorite wine bottles into a unique piece of art or useful decoration. See some of my favorite re-uses for old wine bottles below and hopefully you will be as inspired as I was! (more…)

It’s here again, the Portland Seafood and Wine Festival at the Oregon Convention Center.

The festival begins Friday February 2^nd at 2pm – 10 pm and Saturday from 12 noon – 10pm.

Some of the featured vendors include our favorites Barking Frog with their dessert Syrah and Purple Cow Vineyards. Another one to check out is Zerba Cellars and their Cabernet Franc.

We hope to see you there and please let us know of any local wine happenings in other states you’d like to get the word out for.

Wine festivals are such a great way to taste a variety of local Vineyard and Wineries offerings and find some delicious additions to your own collection.

You can e-mail me @ dani@tasteroom.com

Italy in the Valley

A summer wine festival featuring Italian varietals and the wineries producing them here in Oregon.

When:

Sunday, August 21st, 2011    1PM to 5PM

Where:

Cana’s Feast Winery
750 W. Lincoln St, Carlton • Email • Map

TICKETS: $20
Includes entrance and all wine tastings, olive oil tasting,
and food voucher for your choice of panini from the Cucina!

Participating Wineries:

Angel Vine

Apolloni Vineyard

Barking Frog

Cana’s Feast Winery

Duck Pond Cellars

Marchesi Vineyard

Natalie’s Estate

Ponzi Wines

Remy Wines

Stag Hollow

Tartan

Event Entertainment:

Live Accordion music played by Justin Franzino

Olive Oil Tasting with Fanucchi Oils

Fiat Car Display by Tonkin Fiat

Look for an exclusive  1 year premium account access code when you purchase wine at the event and remember to use the code when registering on our site.

Things are heating up…and the grapes are loving it.

It has been incredibly hot in Texas. Although the inhabitants of the state may not appreciate this heat wave, especially the farmers, it is causing a more positive stir with local vineyards and wineries.

“This historic Texas drought is affecting everyone from ranchers to farmers. For many, the losses are catastrophic. However, the dry weather is helping the state’s wineries reap the fruit of their labor with an uncommonly delicious crop” www.KVUE.com

Many agriculture products have lost their crops all together while the grape harvest seems to be thriving. This is a blessing for Texas grape growers, although the crop quantity is smaller, the heat and reduction of water in the soil is yielding a more flavorful grape. Keep in mind that Texas is having a record drought this summer. (more…)

SIP was overwhelming as far as wine festivals go. the SIP Classic had so many vendors representing the local vineyards, wineries and food of the area that one really needs the entire 3 days the festival runs to catch it all.

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This was my first venture to the Portland Seafood and Wine Festival. Now I have been to many wine festivals, and to be honest I went to this one just for the wine. I am not a seafood person. If it’s fried, well that’s another story. However, for those who are in the mood for seafood as much as wine you would have found yourself disappointed. Calling this the SEAFOOD and WINE Festival was a bit misleading as there were only 6 restaurants represented at the festival among the 50 wineries and vineyards.

Given that Portland has a big pull for wine and seafood lovers alike, this created what can only be described as a red hot mess. Lines for food were exceeding the capacity the restaurants were able to handle and in fact one of our friends had to wait over an hour and a half for his food order. Thank goodness I’m not really into seafood and that I ate lunch before I came.

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Let us help you build your own “My tasteroom” wine list using the data that you have already collected over the years. It’s simple and it’s FREE!

• Sign up for a FREE tasteroom membership or sign-in using your existing account.
• While signed in, go to this page and click on the “Browse” button. You can also access this area from the bottom right of the “Search Wines” page.
• Select the file on your computer and click open. Wines must be in a comma delimited or a spreadsheet format like excel or calc.
• Click on the “Continue” button.
• A new window will open, click the “Save” button. This uploads your spreadsheet file to our servers.

That’s it, you’re finished!

We will add your submitted wine list to your “My tasteroom” area as soon as possible where you will be able to make lists, add wines to a Virtual Wine Rack and comment on each wine as you see fit.

You can also add wines that do not show up in our wine database. Simply fill out the form fields with the appropriate wine information and click continue and then save.

Why would I want to do this?

Once you have wines in your “My tasteroom” area you can do so many things.

• You can make liked, disliked, shopping or wish lists. You can  make as many custom lists as you wish. You could even make an event list and document your impression of each wine tasted via the comment feature for instance. All your lists are available to you in a printer friendly format.

• Once you have wines in your “My tasteroom” area your list is mobile. You can use most tasteroom features on most mobile web enabled devices.
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  You don’t need an app. because you already have everything you could possibly need at your fingertips.

Do you have a place for tasting notes?

• Yes. Our wine comment feature can be set to public or private. This allows you to journal your impressions the way you want.

What else can I use “My tasteroom” area for?

• Personal organization and tracking of wines
• You can effectively manage inventory
• You can post the most current price paid for a wine
• You can add wines to your own Virtual Wine Rack™ to further your organization.

Click to see an example of a list and a wine displayed in the Virtual Wine Rack ™

How much is all of this going to cost me?

This is all completely FREE once you sign-up for a basic tasteroom membership

How do I contact someone at tasteroom?

Go to our Contact Us page. We will be happy to answer any questions concerning tasteroom that you may have.

First off, the tasteroom staff just wanted to say a collective hello to all the people that we met at the Portland Seafood and Wine Festival last weekend.  We were able to meet quite a few fellow wine enthusiasts as well as vineyard/wine makers.  It was a very nice event and look forward to attending the next one.

We have been busy working with vendors on their account setups and everything seems to be going very smoothly now.

We see new vendors registering every day and that is very encouraging to us. As always, feel free to contact us should you need any assistance setting up your vendor account. We are always happy to help!

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tasteroom development continues. We are working to polish many of our current features along with developing new ones. More to come on this soon. Do you have a feature or enhancement that you would like us to consider? Contact us by clicking the link above.

As many of you know, tasteroom is still a very young website. Please help your friends discover us by sending them a link to our page on facebook and please vote for us on the Best Wine Websites link below.

We are very excited to see what 2011 brings and we are genuinely happy to be experiencing it with you.

~Ray

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It has come to our attention that some of our members recently received an error when trying to setup vendor accounts.

We have since identified the cause and solved the underlying issue that prompted the error.  To clarify further, the issue stemmed from a recent influx of traffic that added an extended load on our servers. This was likely a result of the combination of our marketing campaigns and press release highlighting these very features.

If you have experienced an error or any other issue during account creation, we ask that you please try to setup a vendor account again.  We apologize for the inconvenience and would be happy to assist you should you wish to try again. Please contact us here!

Remember, our basic vendor account is completely free to join and gives you and your clientele yet another way to communicate freely.  A vendors presence on tasteroom will build vendor-consumer relationships in a vastly meaningful way for all involved.  We aim to help facilitate these lasting connections.

Thank you,

tasteroom staff.