For many years, friends tell me, Walla Walla was a desert when it came to restaurants. But the Oasis has been there just off the highway to Milton-Freewater for quite some date. In fact, it was a bliss to have lunch from the 1950s style menu that offered everything your heart could desire in a dine…

If you pushed me, I’d have to confess to being a red wine sort of guy. It’s reds that I tend to plump for, unless my food choice absolutely dictates a C-thru (as some Aussies refer to white wines).Tonight, three whites to report on. A seductive, aromatic Californian; a Roussillon white that I wa…

Devin Stinger, winemaker and owner at Adamant Cellars, was adamant that Adamant Cellars was named after Adamantine, a very hard stone similar to rubies and diamonds in hardness. The two wines I tasted weren’t adamentine at all. The 2006 Rose and the 2006 Semillon were both fresh lively summer wines….

Tertulia winemaker, Ryan Raber, is a migrant from the East Coast. His friend, Christina Peet, runs the tasting room. The winery is a dramatic post-modern building with a false facade reminiscent of Rene Magritte. The wines are more traditional. The 2006 Columibia Valley Voignier was fresh and livel…

This Spanish red from Crianza is 100% Tempranillo and medium garnet in hue on the pour. There is a touch of vegetal tones with some dried red fruit. There is a firm layer of black pepper in the nose.This wine is surprisingly tasty with a bit sweetish palate but very tight on opening. With some ai…

Pictured is Regent’s Park that lunchtime, taken with my Pentax *ist DL2 and posted using Google’s Picasa (that’s what the little coloured logo at the bottom of that post represents). I’ve been playing around with Flickr a lot, but Picasa seems quite a promising way of dealing with pictures on your …

Pictured is Regent’s Park that lunchtime, taken with my Pentax *ist DL2 and posted using Google’s Picasa. I’ve been playing around with Flickr a lot, but Picasa seems quite a promising way of dealing with pictures on your computer, rather than on the web.As you can see, it’s nearly a summer’s day: …

We had that Zin after the Four Vines previously blogged–It had a markedly diminished bouquet compared to the Four Vines with a palate that is on the sweeter side but with big flavors of dark fruit with some Zin character. After some air instance, the wine opens to a peppery and somewhat shallow wi…

We had that Zin after the Four Vines previously blogged–It had a markedly diminished bouquet compared to the Four Vines with a palate that is on the sweeter side but with big flavors of dark fruit with some Zin character. After some air instance, the wine opens to a peppery and somewhat shallow wi…

I grabbed that for just under $10 considering I wanted a Zin that I hadn’t tried and another one of the Four Vines Zins that I had, had was pretty tasty.It is a purple cherry hue with a black berry bouquet. A friend who doesn’t precisely have a very discriminating palate even said, “Wow!” just upo…