HOT as an oven in the vineyard

The past several days have been unusually hot. It is the end of June in the Applegate Valley, Oregon. Temperatures are generally warm, like 80’s maybe a few 90’s, heck some years it’s still raining here. This year we got an early spike of 100+ degree days.

It’s dry heat. Not like the humid sauna-like heat of the Midwest. More bearable for the most part; but when the mercury climbs to 110 degrees, I don’t care how dry it is, it’s HOT. Thankfully, today is the beginning of a cooling trend, only 101. We should be in the lower 90’s by the weekend.

Speaking of hot, Southern Oregon wine has been getting some good press lately. There was an article in the Wall Street Journal (http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=101219) (you got to have a membership to read the actual article)

The Rogue valley is featured in AAA’s Via magazine, July/August 2006 edition. (If you check out page 19, you’ll see my smiling mug) Pretty heady stuff for our neck of the woods; but there are many wonderful wines in this region and I’m pleased to be some (albeit small) part of it.