Eno Outings

Previous Columns

• A spring break wine 'study' in Burgundy - 4/24/2013

  I have to confess I was hoping to catch the three pillars of the Rogue Valley's biggest wine event off guard.

• Off to see the vineyard wizard - 4/10/2013

  "You will see it," assures the steady voice of viticulture wizard Chris Hubert as he guides me over the phone to a land magically being transformed into a 15-acre vineyard.

• Nut asks for wine answers in a nutshell - 3/27/2013

  My most impatient self is asking — pleading — with Wayne Hitchings of Red Hill Vineyard to answer a simple question. But he just shakes his head.

• Festival overkill on the Oregon Coast - 3/13/2013

  We all have heard the stories about good people acting badly at the Newport Seafood & Wine Festival: Thousands of drunken frat boys smash wineglasses onto the floor of a crammed circus tent whipped...

• Protect the land, hug a hard-working farmer - 2/27/2013

  A grape grower asked me if I wanted to borrow some boots. I looked at my snow-white, canvas sneakers and then his steel-toed LaCrosse work boots that safeguarded his calves in rubber.

• Wineries are reservoirs of romance - 2/13/2013

  Warning: This column contains stories of irrepressible love, public nudity and other forms of wine-infused misbehaving.

• Does my head spin from too much wine or too much information? - 1/30/2013

  People accuse me of being highly competitive, especially when the stakes are low.

• Oh, how wine warms the snowed soul - 1/16/2013

  Please don't judge me because I'm a snow wimp.

• Earthy truffles nothing to trifle with - 1/2/2013

  I swear that the strongest drug I have ever taken — legal or otherwise — is NyQuil.

• Awakening interest in art through wine - 12/19/2012

  In my inimitable quest to hobnob only with people who make me feel inferior, I find myself ignored by globe-trotting bluebloods shopping for masterpieces at the storied contemporary art fair, Art...

• Tall orders for Santa's little helper - 12/5/2012

  People who know me only through the written word are unaware that I am freakishly tall.

• Sweet, sour personalities spark table talk - 11/21/2012

  You know that sweet guest at your Thanksgiving table whom you just adore? Well, that's not me.

• Take that, tannins! Let's party, tempranillo! - 11/7/2012

  Pacifists and peaceniks, please turn away as I punch a woman half my size — and smile.

• A new harvest: Old farmers may faint, video gamers pout - 10/24/2012

  Video gamers would hate me right now.

• Pop! Ride the Champagne time machine - 10/10/2012

  I parked my crass, modern car at a street corner, walked across a lawn glimmering with croquet stakes and finally entered the Champagne-infused world that F.

• Hey, merlot — where did you go? - 9/26/2012

  No sooner had those slackers from Cycle Oregon skedaddled out of Ashland after only biking up a 4,647-foot ascent to the ski resort on their day off before continuing on their quest to lap Southern...

• Water and wine: Good time or nightmare? - 9/12/2012

  I'm reposing on a pal's pontoon boat on Emigrant Lake, appreciating both the white cushions that I'm sitting on that seem culled from the set of a Jean Harlow movie and the $28 bottle of white wine,...

• Saying 'yes' with gusto, thanks to Julia - 8/29/2012

  I remember only one word Julia Child told me.

• Partying with wine pros makes heads spin - 8/15/2012

  I attended a conference where we watered the lawn with priceless wine.

• Put a vroom in your viognier - 8/1/2012

  Man against nature: It doesn't always have to be a battle.