> 'Hazelnuts' is an effete, Eastern marketing name for what are really > filberts. > Yo, Bob, you talkin' to a New Yawkah, okay? Yeah, right, effeet. I ain't got nuttin on my feet. Adjusting do rag and settling down to an A to Z pinot gris, Andy Amago > [Original Message] > From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 6/4/2005 7:02:03 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Eliot (and Oregon as Suburb) > > Andy Amago wrote: > > > I would say that Oregon is also a suburb of Burgundy. For wine lovers > > anway. The climate is very similar to that Burgundy, meaning that > > Oregonian pinot noir is virtually indistinguishable from that grown in > > Burgundy. Oregon also produces 97% of the hazelnut crop of the U.S. > > It would be better to say that the Willamette Valley > > http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Willamette_Valley > > is an extension of Burgundy; the climates of Eastern and Southern Oregon > are nothing like that of Burgundy. Southern Oregon produces some decent, > but not outstanding Cabernet. > > http://www.avalonwine.com/Oregon-wine.htm > > Wineries in the dry, rolling hills on both sides of the Columbian River, > at the eastern end of the Columbia River Gorge make some really good > Cabernet (e.g. Leonetti Cellar, in Washington), but forget trying to > find any in a shop. > > http://www.leonetticellar.com/index.html > > 'Hazelnuts' is an effete, Eastern marketing name for what are really > filberts. > > Robert Paul > 30 minutes from Domaine Drouhin, etc. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html