Bigger Than Your Head

Bigger Than Your Head

Wine of the Week

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Fredric Koeppel
Aug 21, 2012
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One of the interesting aspects of Oregon's Willamette Valley wine region is that few vineyards are planted on the valley floor, because the soil is too good, too rich, dense with the nutrients of ancient floods and river deposits. The vineyards tend to be planted on the hillsides, above 200 feet, where the soil composition is more spare and more demandi…

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