Alloro Vineyard Whole Farm Dinner at Alloro Vineyard prepared by award winning chef Cathy Whims of Portland’s Nostrana Restaurant. 95 % of ingredients sourced from the Alloro estate property.
Alloro Vineyard team, left to right: Tom Fitzpatrick (winemaker) and his wife France, Nancy Clark, David Nemarnik (founder and vineyard manager), Erin Ertz, and chocolate lab Abby
Sunset over Alloro's estate vineyards
Harvest full moon for illuminating vineyard walk
Cathy Whims preparing a delicious winemaker dinner, lamb over the custom BBQ succulent and tender
"Nostrana: Local, the most powerful selling word in the market and it is never taken in vain. In italian it is nostrani or nostrane (depending on masculine or feminine form), whose literal meaning is ours. To shoppers, ours means it's better because it has traveled a short distance to the market, hence it's fresher. An underlying, more emotional secondary message is that it will be more satisfying because the taste is the comforting one of home" Marcella Hazan, Marcella Cucina, MacMillan, 1997
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