Kudos from Matt Kramer
Thursday | 23 June 2011
"And, Not Least, Get Relaxed – Don’t let wine jocks make you feel insecure. Sure, we writers get all lathered-up about delightful bits of esoterica (right now I’m excited by the biodynamic wines of tiny Cowhorn Vineyard and Garden in the Applegate Valley of southern Oregon). It’s what we do. We’re supposed to be on the prowl, ever lustful for the latest triumph…"
- Matt Kramer, Wine Spectator, July 2011
Sheer pleasure
Tuesday | 07 September 2010
By Matt Kramer
This is a new discovery for me, and it’s a stunner.
The Applegate Valley is in southern Oregon, about 40 miles from the California border. It's an old gold-mining area that later became farm country. The area has a history of winegrowing, but what emerged was only episodically good, as growers groped to find what worked best in this sunny, dry, cold-in the-winter, hot-in-the-summer zone. (The cool, moist Willamette Valley is 200 miles to the north, effectively a world away.)
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COWHORN tours with Pink Martini
Tuesday | 23 March 2010
By Nathan Wesley
Pink Martini’s Timothy Nishimoto takes COWHORN Viognier on tour
Timothy Nishimoto, 45, has dueling careers: one as the owner of a successful wine bar in Portland, Ore., the other as a member of Pink Martini, a jazz and Latin fusion band. Nishimoto began working in restaurants at the age of 15. After graduating from California State University at Long Beach in 1990, he moved to Portland, where he worked for various local restaurants, including the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence-winning Papa Haydn. In 1999, he joined one of the local Wild Oats natural food stores as the wine department manager and spent six years honing his skills as a wine taster and developing a deep passion for working with wine.
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