Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Where Have I Been?


The eight of you that read this blog may have wondered why it's been so quiet lately. After living in San Diego for over 20 years, I packed up and moved to Oregon. Right outside Portland is a small community called Beaverton, where I'm now making my home. The drive north, up Interstate 5, took two days with a stop in Sacramento overnight. Becky had flown down the week previously and was invaluable, helping me pack and load the truck as well as keeping me entertained on the drive up.

Preparing for the move took up a lot of time and energy, so I was unable to get much writing done. As of now, I have four blog entries in the draft queue, but none are fit to print...As if anything I post is ever truly fit to print. In the final weeks of my San Diego life, I tasted through some good and not-so-good California cabernets as well as a lineup of decent carmeneres from Chile. Notes on each of those tastings will be forthcoming. More coverage of my September press trip to Navarra is also on it's way, including some of the best wine I've tasted this year. I've also a slew of single-bottle/winery reviews coming along in the pipeline, and some op/ed pieces I've been brewing in my head for a long time now.

So now that I'm in Oregon, will this blog change much? I hope it only changes for the better, with more commentary on the wine world and fewer cut and dry wine reviews. I don't think I have the energy or drive to write exhaustive articles on every single wine event that goes on, but there are some interesting tastsings coming up that I hope to attend and report to you on.

With that, I ask your pardon for a few more days as I get everything settled into my apartment in Beaverton. I'll be posting up some coverage of the harvest work I did yesterday at Kramer Vineyards, and recapping the aforementioned Curry & Carmenere tasting, as well as the (very) interesting California Cabernet tasting I did a few weeks ago.

Cheers!
Beau Carufel

9 comments:

  1. Looking forward to it. Once again, Welcome to Oregon!

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  2. Great to have you up here! The first post after getting settled is a big one!

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  3. Thank you both, it's great to be here. Can't wait to get some more blogs up :-)

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  4. Interesting move - even with Temecula, you're closer to more varied wine country now!

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  5. Congrats and best of luck on this exciting move!

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  6. Is there room for Oregon craft beer in Beau's Barrel Room? :)

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  7. Best of luck to you! I know you will do great things up there. That place was calling your name for a long time :-)

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  8. Good luck Beau, my nearly 20 years in Oregon did me well. I think you'll love it up there. I'm sure I'll see you when the WBC is in your backyard!! House party at Beau's???

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  9. Thank you all for the support, and yes Scott, house party next year for the WBC. It's gonna happen!

    @Beth, I am a craft beer junkie, you know this, but I leave the blogging about it to the pros. ;-) I just drink the stuff!

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