On Apr 18, 7:51 pm, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:
BJ Conner wrote:

I will be hitting the Umpqua again this summmer. The near seal lever
part where the small mouth abound. One hundred fish days are
possible, A lot of smaller fish but never boaring. There are a
number of wineries around Roseburg and that part of Oregon. I take
the main squeeze, she likes to sit in the sun and read while I fish.
The condition for her company is that we take in 2 or 3 wineries in
the afternoon when it's to hot to fish anyway.

My wife and I have always been able to find a way to enjoy
being outdoors together. She likes photography and I like
trout fishing so it's easy enough to arrange because trout
hang out in some really beautiful and photogenic places.

I can't recall the name of it but the oldest winery in Oregon is
nearby. Last year we bought some Ice Wine. This year I'm buying
more. I don't know where it fits in with the wine snobs but it's
pretty good. But then again I like Raspberry wine.

We've signed up for a bunch of "Wine Clubs", some of which
I like and some of which I'd just as soon she cancelled.
We get Ridge (woo hoo !!), Ferrari-Carrano (OK), Hop Kiln (OK),
Bonny Doon (I swear if those crazy mother****ers ever send us
another bottle of Bouteille Call I'll cancel it myself, wife
be damned ;-), and Wine Garage (my fave). Living here in corn
country it's nice to get California wines in the mail every so
often but we're not sophisticated oenophiles, just winos. ;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

I 'll see if I can pick up a bottle of Ice wine for you. It's made
from grapes that have hung on the vine utill there frozen. There
squezzed when frozen so the ice ( water ) stays with the leaves, etc.
The resulting grape juice is sweeter and the wine is sweeter etc. I
guess it come in various varieties. I know it comes in smaller
expensive bottles. Good desert wine. Like I said I'm not a snob.
Willamette Vinyards makes a sparkling muscat that is also a good
desert wine. They also do a good reisling that we go throug a case of
a year.