Wine by the River – this Friday & Saturday!

Friends: the premier wine-tasting event of the season is coming up this Friday and Saturday. Wine by the River (at the new Riverbend park) is almost here, and we're so excited. It's a major fundraiser for Partners in Care (hospice); see their website at www.winebytheriver.com.

More than three dozen award-winning wineries from Oregon and Washington will be there, as well as restaurants, artisanal food producers, chocolatiers, and exhibitors. Like Pomegranate Home & Garden. Yep, we'll be there with a selection of our goodies (including some wonderful new wine-related items). In fact, we're very honored to be their "Featured Local Business for 2009."

Don't know about you, but we can hardly get out of here to go traipsing around the NW wine country (fun as it might be) to visit some of these wonderful wineries... so I'm really happy that they're all going to be here, all in one place. You can taste your way around and find your favorites. Then taste some fab NW cheeses and chocolates. Or have a delicious bite of something from Cork or Chow, Blacksmith, or a dozen other restaurants and chefs. There will be a handy will-call system for your purchases, so you don't have to lug anything around. Just your tasting glass!

It's all under big tents at the new Riverbend park and goes from 1pm-9pm on Friday, and noon-8 on Saturday. There's live music, seminars, treats, lots of mingling. Does this sound like date afternoon/night, or what? Perhaps best of all, we're going to have PERFECT wine tasting weather for the whole event. And it's going to be gorgeous, right next to the river. This is why we live here!!