Touring Oregon Wine Country?

After visiting all the great wineries and fantastic locations… YOU NEED ONE OF THESE… to hold the liquid gold!!

KTW#0911 -- 4 x 5 with a drawer -- African Mahogany and Alder

The summer has finally hit and we are in the 80s. The last couple years we had winter from Thanksgiving until July. Oregonians have coined a term; Junuary, for how dismal the weather was in June. I bet the grapes are loving it now.

Our winters are not that bad really, they just seem to last forever. It gets old, but the summers and fall here are worth it. We get a little bit of snow in the Willamette Valley if we are lucky, but not like the East… that is just crazy. Hey, if we want to see snow, all we have to do look east and Mt. Hood is glistening in the sun. They had great snow pack and were skiing and snow boarding through June. Drive 45 minutes and your in it.

Oh yeah, check out the triple lamination in the top. It’s an idea I stole from my cyber-friend in Austraila, Lazy Larry. The top came out pretty nice. This Mahogany has such a rich color and grain that my poor photography is not doing it justice. The water proof Poly finish I use really make it pop.

To the west is the Oregon Caost. One could be surfing out at Pacific City in the morning and in a few hours be up at Timberline on Mt. Hood looking at the Glacier! If you work it right, you could grab a bottle of wine from a tasting room along the way and cap the day off with a good meal.

My signature drawer pull. I was given four big slabs of this curly Maple from the Seattle area. It is dry as a bone and incredibly beautiful. I’m going to make an electric guitar or bass out of one of the slabs.

 

A long time ago, Oregonians decided that they wanted to leave the coast free of development, so the beaches and land is mostly like it always was… stunning. As is the rest of Oregon… the Cascade Mountain range through the Central part of the state and the arid high Desert in the east. Big place with not many people.

Portland is a gem of a town. It has taken a ribbing from the Portlandia spoof  on YouTube… Portland, the place where twenty-somethings go to retire. A Bay Area musician friend told me… “Portland is like a minature San Francisco only artsier.” Great music and arts scene, and as a people we are into food, beer and wine in a big way.

If you are lucky enough to be touring our Oregon wine country, I think you will find that you have only scratched the surface. You could spend months here… not see it all… and then it starts all over next year and is different.

Check back, I have more to show you soon.