On Friday, March 26th and April 2nd, we are featuring a selection of four wines from Tuscany that Janet will be pairing with some really great food.

We will start with a 2008 Vernaccia di San Gimignano by SanQuirico. This wine is crisp, dry, and refreshing with perfect acidity.

Next we’ll try a Castello di Bossi 2005 Chianti Classico made from 100% Sangiovese grapes. This juicy Chianti offers fruit, tannins and body that reach an elegant balance that carries through to the lingering finish. It's the quintessential match for earthy, rustic, traditional Tuscan cuisine.

We will also taste another 100% Sangiovese, but something quite different. The 2006 Rosso di Montalcino from Altesino is made from grapes hand harvested from young vines in the Altesino and Velonavineyards. This rosso is round and well balanced offering cherry and plum flavors, hints of leather and a velvety finish.

We will finish the meal off with a 2007 Lagone by Aia Vecchia, located deep in the Tuscany countryside between Bolgheri andCastagneto Carducci. This area personifies the favorable microclimate and ideally suited soils make possible the production of very high quality Tuscan wines. The wine is made from Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc grapes, which offer up aromas of plum and dark fruits that unveil a full body, with velvety tannins and a soft, caressing finish. At once minerally and floral. At once yummy.. and good for you too!

If you want to hang around and visit with your new best friends after dinner, try some Vin Santo with your dessert.

We greet between 6:30 and 7:00. Dinner starts at 7. Make your reservation now by calling us at 503.614.0267 or us the form below to email your reservation.

The Girls - Amber Lane & Annette Bergevin

It seems only natural that we begin this series with Bergevin Lane Vineyards from Walla Walla. Annette Bergevin and Amber Lane are a couple of spirited, fun-loving, irreverent cute chics who make great wine. (As anybody can tell by meeting Janet, David is a big fan of cute chics.)  Together with their winemaker Steffan Jorgenson, who brings a world of experience to his craft, Bergevin Lane practice a somewhat restrained style, coaxing extraordinary elegance from their wines. Bergevin Lane Vineyards is a sister stream in the world of wine to the Bethany’s Table freestyle approach to food and hospitality.

We will be serving four courses of food paired with great wines including their highly rated Syrah and amazing 2004 Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet Sauvignon – a great year! The cost is only $35 per person.

Make your reservation for November 13^th and 20^th. Arrive, as usual, between 6:30 and 7 pm. Seating is at 7.  Click Contact Us in the left panel to email your reservation or call us at (503) 614-0267.

Do you want to familiarize yourself with Bergevin Lane Vineyards? Click here to view the Bergevin Lane website.

There are scads of wineries in Southern Oregon. The website for Southern Oregon Wineries Association (www.sowa.org) boasts 48 member wineries.  One of our favorites among these is Abacela (www.abacela.com).  So we are continuing our Southern Oregon exploration on Friday, July 10th by featuring this truly great winery.

As usual, we will greet guests beginning at 6:30 and seat at 7:00 pm. and begin at 7. The cost is $25.00.

Be there!

Call (503) 614-0267 or use the form below to make your reservation.

When we asked our customers how they felt about moving the wine tastings from Fridays to Thursday night we got about a 50/50 response. Since we made the move to Thursday a much higher percentage of our customers have voted with their feet. We have had a couple of great Thursday tastings, usually when attendance is augmented by a large group. But attendance overall has been pretty meager.  Our Friday tastings were filling up the house.

You can't have a drunk wife and a full case of wine – Italian proverb

Here we typically say "You can't have your cake and eat it too"…  but you know those Italians. We will attempt to defy these axioms. We will hold the wine tastings on Friday and still be available for drop in dining. To accomplish this we will limit the number of participants to 16. This will fill our main table and leave the remainder of the restaurant available for dining. And there are always the outside tables.

Guinea Pig Tasting

The Guinea Pig Tastings have been a great success. We have discovered some great wine that, based on our customers' input, now resides on our list. The theme continues. Next we are tasting a great Italian Rosé (Librandi Ciro Rosato 2008), a German  2006 Silvaner from Villa Wolf, comparing two super-value Argentine Malbecs… and, as the finale, maybe the best Cabernet we've tasted this year by Janvik from the Columbia Valley.

Date:  Friday, May 28th and June 5th.
Time: Meet and Greet 6:30 – 7:00 pm. Seating at 7. You are not late until after 7.
Cost: $20 per person

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