Joe the Winemaker – The Official Blog of Oregon Winemaker Joe Dobbes

Come experience an intimate and relaxed approach to wine tasting at Crossings at the Riverhouse, Central Oregon’s #1 Steakhouse! Dobbes Family Estate will be partnering with the Crossings Steakhouse to bring wine expertise to your dining experience this month. Make your reservation for the “Dine with Wine Event” on August 19th and our hospitality queen, Mary Bellando will stop by your table, offer samples of the featured wines and help you with your wine selections for the evening from the award winning wine list featuring over 200 wines as well as over 25 by the glass!

Guests who wish to learn more about Dobbes Family Estate can arrive early and attend an informative and interactive “Wine Enthisiasts Tasting” which will include tasting notes, samplings of each featured wine as well as a tapas plate of artisans’ cheeses for only $20 per person. As an added bonus, a $10 gift certificate will be issued to each guest who participates in the tasting to use on any bottle or glass of wine from our Wine Spectator Award winning wine list that night or even on their next visit!

Make dinner reservations to dine at the Crossings on August 19th and then secure your place at the “Wine Enthusiasts Tasting” at 6pm on the same night by coming early! Tasting begins at 6pm. Call 541-389-8810 to reserve your seat at the table! Space is limited so call today.

Dobbes Family Estate wines will be featured throughout the month, so visit Crossings anytime and enjoy Central Oregon’s Best Steak and Dessert as voted by readers of Gusto Magazine as well as your favorite wine anytime!

Just want to share a big thank you to the Special Olympics volunteers who helped run the Wine By Joe booth at The Bite in downtown Portland last weekend. Especially to our amazing Dobbes Family Circle Wine Club Members, The Simmons Family! You guys are awesome!

Dobbes Family Estate Vintner Dinner

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

 7:30PM

Winchester Inn

35 S. 2nd St.

Ashland, Oregon 97520

RSVP

First Course

2007 Dobbes Family Estate Pinot Gris 

Wild Mushroom Strudel with Gaufrettes and Pear Compote

Second Course

2007 Dobbes Family Estate Grand Assemlage Pinot Noir

 Trio of Sockeye Salmon Tartare, Salmon Wellington and Wine Poached Salmon Roulade

Third Course 

2006 Dobbes Family Estate Cuvee Noir Pinot Noir

Smoked Duck Carpaccio with Butternut Squash Gnocchi

Fourth Course 

2006 Dobbes Family Estate Sundown Vineyard Syrah

Coco Nib Encrusted Rack of Lamb with Caramelized Shallots

Dessert

2007 Dobbes Family Estate Late Harvest Viognier

Spiced Poached Pear dipped in White Chocolate with Hazelnut Crust

Chef de Cuisine, Timothy R. Nelson

$45 per person

Just want to remind everyone who hasn’t made plans for Valentine’s Day yet to stop by the Dobbes tasting room for aphrodisiac and wine pairing. We’re holding the event both Saturday, February 13th and Sunday, February 14th. You can expect delicious gourmet goodies like espresso brownies, baklava and lemon squares with a  raspberry drizzle to be paired with our sumptuous wines.  All of the desserts contain several aphrodisiac ingredients so you’ll be sure to leave with a smile on your face!  The event will be held during normal business hours- 11 am to 6 pm. RSVP with Charles: charles@winebyjoe.com or call 503-538-1141.

We held our first Vino & Vinyasa event on January 16th and are so excited about how well it went. Everyone had such a great experience that we are still getting positive feedback on it and have decided that it will now become a regular event here at the winery! Blogger Renae Walter posted a great write-up on the event, portland-and-one-of-the-best-winery-experiences-ever-thank-you-dobbes-winery. Check it out and then email: nicci@winebyjoe.com to reserve your spot at the next one on February 27th!

Hey everyone! Just a quick introduction, I’m Mary Bellando and I’m the Northwest Sales Manager for Dobbes Family Estate and Wine By Joe. I asked to be a guest blogger to let you all know about this amazing vintner dinner we are putting together with this tiny little restaurant called Ruth’s Chris Steak House, maybe you’ve heard of it? I went to Ruth’s Chris restaurant in Portland a couple weeks ago to put together the menu with the food and wine pairing for the Dobbes Family Estate wine dinner on Jan. 13th . It was awesome! I was with two of my sales reps from Young’s Columbia. We tasted each course they (Ruth’s Chris) want to serve at the dinner.

We started with an appetizer of BBQ shrimp in a zesty creamy BBQ sauce served with their yummy garlic bread. We chose the 2007 Dobbes Family Estate Pinot Gris to pair with that dish. Next was a fabulous harvest salad with mixed greens, dried cherries, toasted pecans and a little goat cheese, we decided on the 2008 Dobbes Viognier for that dish.

The entrée was their signature filet toped with a crab cake and drizzled with a béarnaise! We couldn’t decide on which red we wanted to use for that course because the Pinot Noir and Syrah were both excellent with the dish, so we decided to use both! That filet course will be served with Dobbes 2005 Cuvee Pinot Noir and the 2005 Grand Assemblage Syrah. We thought it would be a good food and wine pairing education to taste two different varietals with the same dish. The last course was Ruth’s Chris famous Crème Brule we of course paired that dish with the Dobbes 2007 Late Harvest Viognier.

I am really looking forward to this dinner on January 13 at Ruth’s Chris. There are only 30 seats available it should sell out quickly!

Mary

We had another amazing vintner dinner in the barrel room last Thursday! I was happy to see both old friends and some new faces. Chef Sarah’s Grilled Leg of Lamb dinner was so tender and delicious- cooked to perfection. And the Summer Vegetable Ratatouille was filled with garden fresh vegetables in a sauce so rich it knocked everyone’s socks off. In fact, she had several requests for the recipe, I’m going to ask Nicci get it out to you all in some form or another. I’m sorry to see summer on it’s way out, but looking forward to the mania of harvest which is rapidly approaching!

Let me just take a minute to say, “Wow!”  The delicious food served at last Friday’s dinner in the barrel room was my favorite yet. We all had such a good time- in fact Dundee’s very own Mayor Sundeen joined us for a second time here at the winery. I’m looking forward to the fantastic menu Chef Sarah will put together for August.