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After 45 years of wine making experience Ken Wright Cellars believes in a simple truth: source is everything. Visit us to taste this gift of nature.

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Back with another Good Book & A Bev!!! 🥂📚

This time I’m sharing some of the books on my FALL TBR and what I’ll be sipping on while reading these!!

👉🏼 are any of these on your fall TBR?

I tagged all the recipe creators so be sure to checkout their pages for more tasty looking fall mocktails and cocktails!

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Rosé Toast to kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month 💕

Thank you to everyone who came out tonight and showed so much love and support! A huge thank you to Ken and the team at @kwcellars for their continued support, and to all the local businesses who donated to our raffle bags. We’re so grateful for this community.

#withcourage #yamhillcounty #breastcancerawareness

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Wednesday’s newsletter has a great mix: Football, wine for a great cause and an excuse to wear lederhosen in public.

🏈 Week 5 preview: Newberg and Mac open conference play, and the games start counting for real.
🍷 With Courage is kicking off an event-filled October for breast cancer awareness, starting with the Rose Toast at Ken Wright Cellars on Wednesday.
🍺 Newberg’s Oktobergfest is set for Saturday at The Allison. Yes, the “g” is on purpose.

It lands in your inbox Wednesday morning. Free, all it takes is an email. Link in bio, or tap the sticker in stories. #KnowYamCo

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A whole fall wine + dessert pairing for $8.78/person? 👀🍂

I grabbed Costco’s 4lb pumpkin cheesecake ($21.99) and paired it with Ken Wright Cellars 2024 Chardonnay from Willamette Valley ($21.89).

The cheesecake is rich, creamy, and loaded with fall spice, so I wanted a wine with enough acidity to keep things from getting heavy. This Chardonnay does exactly that, with bright acidity, apple fruit, and a little baking spice that makes the pumpkin flavors really pop.

And because the bottle is a standard 750 mL, that’s about five glasses of wine + five VERY generous slices of cheesecake for $43.88 total, or $8.78 per person.

Honestly, this is exactly the kind of wine pairing I love: good enough to feel special, affordable enough to actually do.

Save this for your next fall dinner, girls’ night, Friendsgiving, or “I bought a cheesecake and now I need to justify it” situation. 😂

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Help With Courage kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month on Wednesday from 4:30-6 p.m. at Ken Wright Cellars.

$15 donation includes:
- A glass of Rosé
- A raffle ticket for prizes (more will be available for purchase)
- Delicious small bites

100 percent of the proceeds will be donated to With Courage.

No reservation needed! #KnowYamCo

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Such a great week celebrating my amazing wife’s birthday week in OBX, @realhousewinesofva and I had a great time even if the Nor’easter cut a few beach days out of the week. Great food @theodosiarestaurant @thecolingtoncafe @rundownobx great times and great wine were had! Here are the wonderful and delish wines we enjoyed from #hickoryridgecellar a 2016 Grand Vin from @ashesxdiamonds a 2013 Cabernet from #kathrynkennedywinery a 2010 Pinot from @schoolhousevineyard a 2014 Paulliac from @chateau_pontetcanet a 2010 Auric Pinot from @kwcellars the 2012 Contrarian from @blackbirdvineyards and the 2012 Oakville To Kalon Vineyard Reserve Cabernet from @robertmondavi #obx #wine #kittyhawk

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#ad Cascadia Getaways hosted our stay at Summers Hill, and day two was all about exploring Oregon wine country! 🍷

We woke up to the most gorgeous sunrise, had a slow breakfast at the house, and then headed out for a full day of wine tasting around the Willamette Valley.

🍷 Résonance Wines @resonancewines
Our first stop was Résonance, where we tasted wine surrounded by some seriously gorgeous wine country views. I also loved learning that Résonance was the first winery outside of Burgundy for Maison Louis Jadot, bringing together French winemaking history and Oregon-grown wine.

🥪 The Horse Radish @thehorseradish
We stopped for lunch at The Horse Radish in downtown Carlton, which is basically made for a wine-tasting day since it’s right in the middle of Oregon wine country. It’s been a Carlton staple since 2007 and was the perfect little break between tastings.

👻 Ghost Hill Cellars @ghosthillcellars
This was probably our most intriguing stop. We learned that the property gets its name from a local legend about a gold prospector who was killed on the hill in the 1800s, and we were told that spirits of both people AND animals who once lived on the land are still believed to hang around. 👀

🍇 Ken Wright Cellars @kwcellars
Our final stop was Ken Wright Cellars for a vineyard tour and wine tasting, where we got a behind-the-scenes look at Oregon wine country. Ken has been making wine in Oregon since the 1980s and even helped establish the Yamhill-Carlton AVA, so this was such a cool place to learn more about what makes this region special.

After a full day out, we headed back to Summers Hill for a walk, some downtime, and obviously a soak in the hot tub.

I could definitely get used to Oregon wine country life. 🍷

Summers Hill is managed by @cascadia_getaways

Use code BRITTANY.THE.GREAT for stays through the end of 2026.

@visitcarlton @yamhillcarlton @wvwines @traveloregon

#CarltonOregon #YamhillCarltonAVA #OregonWineCountry #WillametteValley

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What an amazing evening @theodosiarestaurant celebrating my wife’s birthday @realhousewinesofva happy birthday baby! Started at the bar, Tom was great, enjoyed a selection of tasty cocktails! Then on to dinner, @dawlaurence was perfect for us and assisted with our wines we brought a 2018 Auric from @kwcellars and a 2014 @chateau_pontetcanet we enjoyed them with a tomato pie and Tuna tartar to start with and surf and turf and Shrimp and grits soufflé for mains such an amazing dinner! Had the priveledge of meeting @dantebaranello as well. Wish we could have seen @chefandthef tonight but was not meant to be. #foodie #wine #theodosia #delishfood

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For the past week, I’ve had the incredible opportunity to help out with harvest at Ken Wright Cellars in Oregon.

This is my second year spending a small part of harvest with the KWC team, and every time I come back, I leave with an even greater appreciation for just how much work goes into every bottle of wine.

This year was especially memorable. We handled some serious tonnage on the sorting line, working through what felt like an endless stream of fruit, but I also had the opportunity to get out into the vineyard and experience harvest from a completely different perspective.

Getting into a small block and actually picking Chardonnay by hand was one of the most humbling experiences I’ve had in wine. Filling a bucket sounds simple until you’re standing in the vineyard with clippers in your hand, working your way vine by vine and cluster by cluster. The amount of physical work that goes into filling just one bucket is incredible—and then you realize how many buckets it takes to bring in an entire vineyard.

Professional vineyard crews can move through these blocks with an efficiency that comes from experience and incredibly hard work. After trying it myself, I can confidently say that if I were getting paid by the bucket, I probably wouldn’t have earned enough for lunch that day. 😂

And picking the grapes is only the beginning.

From the vineyard crews bringing in the fruit, to the sorting line, cellar crew, winemakers, equipment operators, bottling teams, and everyone else along the way, there are an incredible number of hands behind every bottle we eventually get to open and enjoy.

It’s easy to see a finished bottle sitting on a table and forget everything that happened before it got there. Spending even a few days working harvest is a pretty incredible reminder.

So the next time you open a bottle of wine, take a second to appreciate not only what’s in the glass, but all the work—and all the people—that helped put it there. 🍇🍷

#kenwrightcellars #willamettevalley

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👻🎃 Ghouls Night Out is coming to downtown Carlton!

Join us Thursday, October 29th, from 5–8 PM for a spooktacular evening of shopping, sipping, dining, and supporting our amazing local businesses! Enjoy special deals, great food, wine, and a little Halloween fun throughout downtown! Grab your ghoulfriends and come make a night of it! 🧡

📍 Carlton Oregon
📅 Thursday, October 29th | 5–8 PM

#carltonoregon #visitcarlton #willamettevalley

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Wine heaven ✨ thank you to the amazing people in Oregon for such a special (albeit quick!) trip to this incredible wine country! We will be back! 🥂

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Full Interview coming soon with NBA ALLSTAR on on YouTube @wineinblackandwhite. Cheers #goodjuice #goodbubbles

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