Who: Belle Pente Winery and Vineyard (Pente rhymes with ?want?)
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What: Swapping High Tech for Low Tech and PCs for Pinots
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Where: Yamhill-Carlton AVA (Willamette Valley), Oregon
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Why: Because 20 years ago, Jill and Brian O?Donnell packed up their techy lives in Silicon Valley and trooped north to make Pinot Noir, Pinot Gris, Gamay?and Chardonnay in the then-still-emerging Willamette Valley. Because they?ve never looked back ? and though they?re technically transplants, today their connection to their land runs deeper than that of many who?ve lived in the area forever.
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Because they practice organic and biodynamic agriculture: cows, chickens, sheep and bees wander the property, grazing in the vineyard, weeding and fertilizing.
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And because Belle Pente is a family affair. After a long day of processing fruit during the harvest, the whole crew sits down together at the O?Donnell household for a family style dinner cooked by Jill and her Aunt Verle, with wines from Brian?s cellar rounding out the evening.
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When: Around a large table stacked with home cooking and surrounded by friends. If you?re drinking the Pinot Noir, cook up some salmon or Dungeness crab lasagna; if you?re seated with the estate?s Alsatian-style Pinot Gris, don?t be afraid to get a little heavy-handed with the curry.
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www.bellepente.com
Source: http://www.corkbuzz.com/4716/region/winery-profile-belle-pente/
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