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Top wines from the Northwest Invitational
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we will explore the rest of the gold medal winners. Ask for these wines at your favorite wine merchants or contact the wineries directly. n Best in Show/Best Red: Seven Falls 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon, Wahluke Slope, $15. This broadly distributed wine is made by former Columbia Crest winemaker Doug Gore and is one of the newest members of the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates family. It is sold primarily at restaurants nationwide, though it also is available via the winery website. n Best White Wine: Elk Cove Vineyards 2012 Pinot Gris, Willamette Valley, $19. This is the quintessential Northwest Pinot Gris, and it is perhaps the most consistently outstanding example to come out of Oregon, thanks to secondgeneration winemaker
Adam Campbell. n Best Rosé: Lumos Wine Co. 2012 Chiquita Pinot Noir Rosé, Oregon, $20. The grace and beauty of this pink wine will come as no surprise to those familiar with winemaker Dai Crisp’s work. n Best Dessert Wine: Capitello Wines 2011 Dolcino, Oregon, $22. The Gewürztraminer grapes for this dessert wine come from vineyards near Corvallis, Ore., and the Umpqua Valley. Winemaker Ray Walsh left 20 percent residual sugar, making this a delicious post-dinner sipper. n Best Syrah: Avennia 2011 Boushey Vineyard Arnaut Syrah, Yakima Valley, $48. Woodinville, Wash., winemaker Chris Peterson excels with reds, particularly Syrah. He brought in grapes from famed Boushey Vineyard north of Grandview, Wash., for this superb red. n Best Merlot: Put your feet Chateau Ste. Michelle in our hands 2011 Canoe Ridge Estate Merlot, Horse Dr. David Gent, Dr. Kirsten Grau, Dr. Andrew Hune, Heaven Hills, $26. DPM DPM DPM Canoe Ridge Estate is a hat Is a Tailor’s Bunion? prized vineyard for head ilor’s bunion, also called a bunionette, is a prominence of the winemaker Bob Bertheau, th metatarsal bone at the base of theTailor's little toe. The metatarsals and it delivered in the cool bunion 2011 vintage. The symptoms tailor’s bunions include redness,that swelling, and pain at the site e the five long bones ofofthe foot. The prominence (bunionette) the enlargement. ese symptoms when wearing shoes that rub against n Best Riesling: Tailor's aracterizes aof tailor’s bunionTh occurs at theoccur metatarsal “head,” bunion the enlargement, irritating the soft tissues underneath the skin and producing Chehalem 2012 Three cated at theinfl farammation. end of the bone where it meets the toe. Tailor’s (bunionette) Vineyard Riesling, nions are not as common as bunions, on theis visually apparent. Tailor’s bunion is easily diagnosed which because occur the protrusion Willamette Valley, $22. ankle mayinselect one or more of the following: Shoe side of the Your foot,foot butand they aresurgeon similar symptoms and causes. The father-daughter winemodifications, Padding, Oral medications, Icing, Injection therapy, Orthotic devices or surgery. making team of Harry and hy is it called a tailor’s bunion? The deformity received its Copyright © 2013 | American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS), All Rights Reserved. Wynne Peterson-Nedry is me centuries ago, when cross-legged dayappointments with the available. Most insurances accepted. Newtailors patientssatwelcome. Sameallday crafting some of Oregon’s Causes tside edge of their feet rubbing on the ground. This constant finest Rieslings and, Often a tailor’s bunion is caused by an inherited faulty 1950 Pottery Ave., Ste 120, Port Orchard Mon - Fri: 900 Sheridan Road, bbing led to a painful bump at the base of the little toe. according to our judges, Cedar Heights Professional Center 8am to 5pm mechanical structure of the foot. In these cases, changes occur Suite 101, Bremerton some of the best in the in the foot’s bony framework, resulting in the development of Northwest. an enlargement. The fifth metatarsal bone starts to protrude n Best Red Blend: outward, while the little toe moves inward. 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The inaugural Great sent those nominations to Northwest Invitational the wineries. Wine Competition took The result was 250 top place the first full week of wines from the Pacific November at the historic Northwest. The judges Columbia Gorge Hotel in then met for two days to Hood River, Ore. While taste and evaluate the most wine competitions wines under blind condiare open to any winery tions — meaning they did that chooses to enter any not know the producers or wine it wants, the Great the price of the wines. Northwest Invitational The judges were not Wine Competition took a especially indulgent, different twist. awarding just 25 gold medWe invited a dozen top als. But they also were wine professionals from discerning in giving more Washington, Oregon and silver medals (108) than Idaho to participate not only by judging the wines, bronzes (90). And they but also nominating them. discarded just 10 percent of the wines, far fewer The process started than in a typical wine comover the summer, when petition. the wine retailers, wholeThis week, we will look salers, restaurateurs at the P aandt writers i e submitted n t e d u c wines a t that i earned o n the top awards in the comthe names of wines they petition, while next week, wanted to judge. We then
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