There’s No Such Thing as Flyover Country in Wine and Food
The term “flyover country” when referring to the Midwest has always struck me as insulting. It not only ignores the Midwest’s great natural beauty but fails to acknowledge the cultural […]
Author Archives: Dwight Furrow
Meat, Mead and Mountain Wine in Missoula, Montana
Can wine grapes be grown in Montana? There are some hardy souls who try. Excessive cold, meaning sustained temperatures below –10 degrees, will damage the wood on all vitis vinifera […]
Boise Basque’n
Just like most wine regions, Idaho’s Snake River Valley has a growing food scene anchored by the city of Boise. They boast several highly recommended restaurants serving contemporary American cuisine, but when […]
Idaho Wine: Working for Grapes
Idaho may not be the first state you consider when the topic of U.S. wine comes up. But if you’ve been paying attention to the wine press lately, Idaho, especially […]
Wine and Food in Oregon’s Umpqua Valley
There are advantages to being less well-known in the wine world. There are fewer expectations so you can focus on what you want to do rather than what is conventional […]
Farm to Table in Southern Oregon
The farm to table thing has metastasized from fetish to fad to flim-flam. What began as a foodie obsession with freshness and an anti-corporate ethos has become a marketing device […]
Wines of Southern Oregon
Southern Oregon is under-the radar, sandwiched between the long-established California regions to the south and the more recently prominent Willamette Valley to the north. My crystal ball is as cloudy […]
Sonoma Pilgrimage
A quick stop in Sonoma before heading to Southern Oregon was part pilgrimage and part voyage of discovery. The pilgrimage was to the place that launched the food revolution on […]
The New Sammy’s Cowboy Bistro: Mom and Pop Excellence
We’re camped in Southern Oregon tasting wine but today the story is about food. A few minutes north of Ashland on a quiet, semi-rural highway sparsely populated with lower middle […]
Time to Lose the Pre-Conceptions About Emerging U.S. Wine Regions
This article speaks to the difficulties East coast wine regions have in getting wine consumers to take them seriously. “The hardest thing for East Coast wineries is the general attitude toward […]
Roving Decanter 