Abbey Road Farm Bed & Breakfast

http://www.abbeyroadfarm.com/

The Allison

http://www.theallison.com

Black Walnut Inn

http://www.blackwalnut-inn.com/

Brookside Inn

http://www.brooksideinn-oregon.com/

The Carlton Inn

http://www.thecarltoninn.com/

Carlton Cottages

http://www.carltoncottages.com/

Inn At Red Hills

http://www.innatredhills.com

R.R. Thompson House Bed & Breakfast

http://www.rrthompsonhouse.com/

Winery Lofts

http://www.vrbo.com/306590

Youngberg Hill Vineyards & Inn

http://www.youngberghill.com/

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First Fridays in Portland! Join us in Portland for happy-hour tastings from 5-7pm on the first Friday of every month – we’ll be featuring our new releases along with selections from our import portfolio. (Please note – Scott Paul PDX is not open for regular tasting room or retail hours.)

UPDATE – star chef Daniel Mondok (whose new wine country restaurant “Paulée” opens in late May) will be cooking dinner for us!

This dinner is now SOLD-OUT. Email Kelly Karr if you’d like to placed on our waiting list…

Chef Daniel Mondok

Thiébault Huber

Hugues Pavelot

Alexandrine Roy

The wine line-up is spectacular:

’09 Chablis 1er Cru “l’Homme Mort” from Frédéric Gueguen, ’09 Pouilly-Fuissé “Clos Varambon” from Chateau des Rontets, ’09 Pouilly-Fuisse “Vignes Blanches” from Domaine Thibert, ’09 Meursault “Vieilles Vignes” from Buisson-Charles, ’09 Puligny-Montrachet from Benjamin Leroux, and the magnificent Grand Cru ’08 Corton-Charlemagne from Bonneau du Martray. Whoa!

Tasting fee is $25 for this special event, refundable with any 3-bottle purchase of the featured wines.

We’ll be kicking off the weekend with some great white Burgundies that are perfect summer sippers, along with our new ’09 La Paulée Pinot Noir and more goodies. See you here!

Tasting Fee is $10 at the door, refundable with any 3-bottle purchase.

One day only – Saturday May 19th from Noon ’til 5 in Carlton, we’ll be pouring an amazing line-up of Vintage Grower Champagne. These are wines we’ve never had open for tasting before – a one-time-only chance to taste some micro-production vintage Champagnes from four of the region’s top growers.

We’ll be featuring:

2006 “Mes Vieilles Vignes” Blanc de Blancs – José Dhondt ($85)

2004 Brut - Camille Savés ($79)

2004 Millésime – Marc Chauvet ($55)

2002 Special Club – Marc Chauvet ($69)

In addition we’ll be pouring the amazing 2009 Nuits-St. Georges 1er Cru Clos de la Maréchale from our hero Frédéric Mugnier (On sale now at $79, from $109!), and we’ll have our new 2009 La Paulée Pinot on the flight too. $25 tasting fee for this special event, refundable with any 6-bottle purchase.

Seminars make a GREAT gift!

Only one seminar remains on the schedule for the first half of 2012. Reserve now by emailing or calling Kelly Karr, 503-319-5827

White Burgundy, May 18th, 7-9pm, $55

Seating is limited.  Reservations required. Reservations can be made with Kelly at 503-319-5827 or kellykarr@scottpaul.com. Prices include the seminar, wines, snack of cheeses and pâté, and printed materials. Participants also receive special discounts on the featured wines.  Classes are taught by proprietor/winemaker Scott Paul Wright, whose passion for Burgundy was his inspiration for making wine in the first place, and for launching his Burgundy import company in 2005.

Due to last-minute cancellations, we have had to change our payment policy for our seminars. We now take payment at the time of your reservation and will give refunds if you cancel more than 72 hours ahead. If you cancel within 72 hours or do not show up to the class, we will not provide you with a refund unless we can fill your spot.

Seminar Description:

White Burgundy – From Chablis to the Côte de Beaune to the Mâconnais, the Chardonnay grape does some delicious and wonderful things in Burgundy. The styles range from crisp & mineral-intense to rich & succulent, and all points in between. In this class we’ll explore all of the major white wine regions and villages, delve into the viticultural and winemaking techniques, and of course taste six yummy examples along the way.

Now that some are in bottle, I am happy to report that they may have gotten even better along the way. This week we held our annual portfolio tastings for all of the trade buyers in Washington & Oregon, and the first round of in-bottle samples of the 2010s arrived about 2 weeks ago.

Tasting through some 80 different wines over the last two days, these things became abundantly clear – there is a crystalline purity to the fruit, the flavors are concentrated and intense, and the wines are uncommonly refreshing. They just delight the palate and compel you to take another sip.

As long as I’ve been following Burgundy, I’ve never seen a vintage like this – it is truly unique. Super low yields (down 30-50+%), a cold summer, a wet fall, a preponderance of millerandage grapes (tiny “shot berries” that never fully formed) – all conspired to create some of the most classically great Burgundies we may ever see.

Harvest in Burgundy, 2010 Photo Andrea Johnson

Already in bottle are the 2010s from Domaine Pavelot, Marc Roy, Hubert-Verdereau, Violot-Guillemard, Domaine de Nugues, Domaine Ninot, and some of the Benjamin Leroux line-up, as well as the whites from Buisson-Charles and part of the Domaine Thibert stable. All of the rest of our producers are bottling their ‘10s now and over the next couple of months – so we’ll be seeing everything arrive on these shores by October for the most part.

Early faves from my tastings this week – the Pavelot Narbantons & Dominodes, the Marc Roy Marsannay Blanc & Gevrey Clos Prieur, the Hubert-Verdereau Bourgogne Rouge & Volnay Robardelles, The Violot Guillemard Clos des Mouches & Pommard Rugiens (holy sh*t!), the Fleurie from Nugues, NInot’s Mercurey VV, and the Leroux Bourgogne Rouge and Savigny-lès-Beaune. Oh my…

On the white side – the ‘10s are simply the best wines they’ve ever made at Buisson-Charles, and that’s saying something. Ditto for Domaine Thibert. A veritable cornucopia of delights indeed.

I also had the opportunity to open a number of ‘08s and ‘09s at our trade tastings this week. I found the ‘09s to be exactly where I expected – rich, fruity, juicy, succulent, and flat-out wines of pleasure. The surprise was the development of the ‘08s – many of which have now evolved to start showing some lovely secondary aromas and have taken on weight while integrating the acidity nicely. Special knockouts were the ’08 Echezeaux from Jean-Marc Millot, the ’09 Volnay VS from Michel Lafarge, and the ’09 Millot Echezaux – full-on yum!

Harvest lunch 2010 with Huber-Verdereau Photo - Andrea Johnson

While qualitatively we have an abundance of riches, don’t forget that the tiny Burgundy crop in 2010 left us with very little wine to go around. Quantities are miniscule in many cases. Keep your eyes glued on your email for our upcoming pre-arrival offers, and act quickly if there are any wines you want to secure, because they simply will not be around for more than a few minutes in most cases.

The best news is the pricing. We have finally received final 2010 prices from our producers, and the vast majority are flat from last year, with a number of them actually going down a bit, and a few up just slightly. The relative strength of the dollar is also working in our favor, so even with the smaller volume available we will not be seeing significantly higher prices for the 2010s Hallelujah!

I’m looking forward to seeing you here in Carlton for our pre-Memorial Day weekend special tasting of Vintage Grower Champagnes and the great Freddy Mugnier too. This one will clearly rock…

2009 was a warm vintage that gave us lush, ripe fruit and lovely richness – it’s a vintage that’s built for pleasure. The 2009 La Paulée was sourced entirely from our blocks of Maresh Vineyard in the Dundee Hills (Oregon’s 5th oldest vineyard, planted in 1970.) We farm our blocks of Maresh Biodynamically, to let these beautiful and regal old vines produce their fruit in the most natural way possible. Our job in the winery is to simply leave the grapes alone and let the fruit do its work.

The result in 2009 was 485 cases of pure, elegant Pinot, the kind that only old vines and Oregon sunshine can produce. At only $32 per bottle, it just may be the best value around. Join us in Carlton to taste and buy, from Noon ’til 5 on Saturday May 5th.

We’ll be pouring a special flight that includes the ever-popular Crémant from Huber-Verdereau, 2008 St. Véran from Domaine Thibert, the last of the ’08 La Paulée, and the just-released 2010 Audrey. We hope you can join us!