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Shallon Winery
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SHALLON WINERY is located in downtown Astoria, Oregon, two blocks from the Maritime Museum and across the street from the Heritage Center. You will pass the winery at the bottom of the hill on 16th street if you come down 16th street from having visited the Astoria Column. The address is 1598 Duane Street, but the main entrance is on 16th street. The winery building was built and owned by a well known architect, John E. Wicks, in 1925, after the Astoria fire in 1922, in the Mediterranean style for which there are other examples in Astoria. It first opened as an automotive showroom for Packard, Pontiac, and Oakland automobiles. In 1939 it was remodeled into a freezer-locker for the public and has six inches of solid cork in all the walls and under the concrete on the floor, and two feet of ground cork overhead. The sub-basement is at original Columbia river beach level which is below street level (after the 1922 fire, Astoria's wooden streets on pilings were returned to the original elevation with concrete chair-walls and concrete streets, leaving extensive underground chambers conveniently used for utilities). The building remained a refrigerated locker rental business for 30 years until 1969. It was a bicycle shop from 1973 to 1977. The winemaker started a complete remodeling of the upper street level in 1977; the one floor now containing the manufacturing room, a full laboratory, office, storage room, printing room, tool room, and tasting room. The tasting room looks out over the four to five mile width of the Columbia river and the green hills of Washington state across the river. The Columbia River flows west to the Pacific Ocean another ten miles. Visitors may also view the lab and manufacturing room that has a green floor, pink and grey walls, a lot of hospital white and stainless, and no windows except four "trope l'oeil" windows.
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Blueberry
Dry and suitable for the dinner table - an intense blue-red color.
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Chocolate Orange
This is the ultimate creation of my older years; anything I create after this will be a total anticlimax. I know of nothing like this on the face of the earth; if you find something, tell me.
Made with six rich Chocolates from four countries, with no artificial flavorings or materials, it is approximately 10% alcohol. Most so-called Chocolate liqueurs are 20, 30, or 40% alcohol with artificial flavorings (and usually don't taste very good.)
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Cranberry
Semi-dry/semi-sweet, "smooth," beautiful fluorescent cranberry rose color, nice with a splash of 7-up or champagne. Have spent the last 30 years in research and experimentation on this one.
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Lemon Meringue Pie
A little sweeter, tried to do in the style of Beerenauslese (how presumptuous can I get), tastes like lemon meringue pie (or so I think), and you can whip it and get a "meringue" on top, nice served with wine crackers to give the taste of pie "crust."
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Spiced Apple
With honey and fresh ginger, etc., intended to be served hot.
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Whey Wine
As far as I know, I had the first good tasting commercially produced whey wine in the world and still produce the only whey wine. These wines should be good for you; they should have the vitamins, minerals, and some of the protein that milk has. Several universities have in the past spent a great deal of grant money trying to make wine from the whey, and have essentially failed (I don't get any grant money).
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Wild BLACK Raspberry
A dessert wine too precious to even mention, the berries picked one at a time in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest! Talk
about precious desert wines like Chateau d'Yquem at $200 a bottle, but they
are available. This you can't get.
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Wild Evergreen Blackberry
Totally dry, woodsy flavor like wet moss, leaves, and mushrooms, goes nicely with wild meat, will age like a cabernet and can be mistaken for one (8 year reports so far).
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Wild Hawaiian Mango
The Mangos for this wine are picked from the wild in the Puna District saved from recent Kilauea lava flows.
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Wild Plum
Sweeter.
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