New in 2012 – Scott Paul PDX is our special event space in NW Portland. Here we’ll be holding our monthly series of Burgundy and Champagne seminars, as well as occasional special tasting events and winemaker dinners. (We’re at 2537 NW Upshur St. Portland 97210) First Fridays in Portland! Join us in Portlan

We’re so pleased to announce our 2012 series of classes!!  Scott’s Burgundy (& Champagne) seminars have been a perennial hit, booking up quickly each year.  In 2012, we’ll hold them in our new Scott Paul PDX space in NW Portland (2537 NW Upshur St, Portland 97210). Seminars make a GREAT gift! The fir

You’re invited to join us for an intimate winemaker dinner with Burgundy’s rising star Alexandrine Roy, of Gevrey-Chambertin’s Domaine Marc Roy. Only 10 seats are available for this special dinner at Portland’s Little Bird Bistro, the latest hit from James Beard Award-winning chef Gabe Rucker. We’ll be featuring a

We’re excited to welcome winemaker Alexandrine Roy to Portland for a special tasting and intimate winemaker dinner. “Alex” is the 4th generation to helm her family’s tiny 10-acre estate, Domaine Marc Roy in the legendary village of Gevrey-Chambertin. Her wines are drawing raves from all the critics, and have develop

One of the most common questions we get is – “what happens to Burgundy as it ages?” Here is your chance to find out, or at least get a glimpse of several fine Burgundies from the 2006 vintage, now with five years of age on them. Join us in Carlton on Saturday, March 3rd from [...]

Join us in NW Portland at Scott Paul PDX for our ongoing series of First Friday happy-hour tastings on Friday March 2nd from 5-7pm. We’ll be pouring our limited-production Oregon Pinot and selections from our import portfolio, with a special “Splurge” pour also available, details tba. Tasting fee is $5, re

Join us at Portland’s only Champagne-only wine bar, Ambonnay, for a special flight of three Champagnes from micro-producer Bruno Gobillard. Importer/Champagne Junkie Scott Paul Wright will be on hand to talk about the Gobillard bubblies – which are made in miniscule quantities and have an avid cult following. Th

Join us in NW Portland at Scott Paul PDX for a Happy-Hour Champagne tasting on Friday Feb. 17th from 4-6pm, prior to our Champagne seminar that night. (A few seats for this class are still available.) We’ll be pouring a couple of great bubblies from our portfolio of Grower Champagnes – micro-production bottlings

On Saturday Feb. 11th at our tasting room in Carlton, we’ll be pouring every vintage of our La Paulée Pinot ever released, from 2002 through the current-release 2008. For the first time ever, we’ll be pouring all of our La Paulée bottlings side-by-side, seven in all, starting with the 2002 (made at Domaine Dro

Join us in Carlton on Saturday Feb. 4th from 12n-5p – this is an absolute don’t miss tasting for Burgundy lovers of all stripes. We’ll be pouring all five of the outstanding 2009 Meursaults from top-drawer producer Domaine Buisson-Charles. Though perhaps not as famous as Lafon, Roulot or Coche-Dury, the Bu

Join us in NW Portland at Scott Paul PDX as we kick-off our series of First Friday Happy Hours – Friday February 3rd from 5-7pm. We’ll be pouring our hand-crafted Oregon Pinot and a selection from our import portfolio – with a “Splurge Pour” of Grower Champagne also available (just in time for

More love for the amazing and miraculous 2010 Burgundy vintage, this time from IWC’s Steve Tanzer – “At their best, the 2010 reds offer compellingly fresh and complex aromatics and site character; silky but sharply delineated palates; and suave, long, gripping finishes featuring firm but harmonious tannins. In their a

Join us in NW Portland at Scott Paul PDX for a happy-hour tasting from 4-6pm on Friday January 20th, prior to our Burgundy 101 seminar that night. (This seminar is sold out, but seats are still available for February and March classes.) We’ll be pouring our 2008 La Paulée Pinot Noir (recently featured on the [...]

We’re excited to close out the year with a bang! It’s a  very special tasting of the great Burgundies of Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier and top Grower Champagnes from Bruno Gobillard – in our new Portland event space on Friday December 30th from 4-7pm. “Freddy” Mugnier is one of Scott’s winemaking inspirations and

Here are some snapshots and notes about recent good eats.  Like many of you I’m sure, I’ve been busy in the kitchen.  I’ve already made, or have promised to make some family favorites.  Last year, after reading a great tip on the 101 Cookbooks blog, I committed to a tradition of serving on Christmas mor

As we head into the last week of the year, I wanted to thank you for making it such an amazing year for all of us at Scott Paul. Your passion, support, enthusiasm, thirst for knowledge, thirst for great wines, and overall spirit and joie de vivre continue to amaze and delight me. My sincere [...]

Now that most of the 2009 Burgundies have come and gone, it’s time to revisit the 2008s. While the ‘09s were big crowd-pleasers, most of us who love red Burgundy actually prefer the 2008s. We love them for their purity and their transparency – they show the unique characteristics of their vineyard origins in exquisite

One cannot (nor should not!) drink wine all of the time, but we can certainly read about it as often as we want. Here are my recommendations for some of my favorite wine books of the year… As noted here previously, the best reference book on Burgundy in the last 250 years was published this [...]

‘Tis the season – for popping the corks on some great Grower Champagnes and celebrating anything and everything. Personally, I believe every new day is reason enough for a Champagne celebration. Waking up to find that one is NOT in the obituaries always call for a bottle of Champers in my book! We are honored [.

Scott Paul Wines is debuting its NW Portland event space, Scott Paul PDX, with bubbles, of course, on Sunday, December 4th, 2-5 p.m. Kick off the holidays by joining Martha and Scott Paul Wright for an exciting flight of grower Champagnes from small producers. These terroir-driven and personality-packed Champagnes are not w

The smoke has cleared and the turkey has settled after the big holiday weekend here in Oregon, and it’s time to catch up on assorted tastings and events both in Burgundy and here at home. I believe I left off after my tasting at Buisson-Charles in Meursault, where once again they have outdone themselves and [...]

Please visit us in our tasting room in historic downtown Carlton!  Our flight includes our reserve-level wine which is available as futures (the 2010 Audrey Pinot Noir – only 100 cases made) and select Burgundies and Champagne from our import portfolio. $10 tasting fee refunded with 3 bottle purchase. Robert Parker&#

I’m back from Burgundy, tired and happy, and thrilled to have a lovely 2011 Oregon vintage in barrel and put to bed. From what was certainly the most stressful fall we’ve faced has come some really excellent wines. That which does not kill you makes you stronger, indeed! In the end, we just may have [...]

Once again, Véronique Drouhin’s Paulée has produced the greatest wine day of the year, going above and beyond the already lofty expectations I have for this amazing event. 42 of the world’s top Burgundy lovers and collectors, eight of Burgundy’s top vignerons, and a couple hundred magnificent bottles – all in the

… than most people drink in a year! 42 wines – before lunch. 3 with lunch. Another 25 after lunch. Now resting my liver prior to diner at Ma Cuisine that promises to include a bottle or six. Such is the life of the importer at work… And what work it is. A total joy, [...]

I am stone in love. In every sense of the word. With the 2010s of the Côte de Nuits, that is. Stone as in deeply, powerfully, passionately in love, and Stone as in the incredibly fresh, pure, intense limestone-iness that shines through these stunningly beautiful wines. I have seen no reviews of the 2010s yet [...]

Arrived in Volnay. Shower, clean shirt. Off to Beaune for the usual arrival routine: A quick stop at Athenaeum to pick up any new Burgundy books published since last time (got the new Jacky Rigaux book on Henri Jayer and a new history of the Negociants by Christophe Lucand, and 2 copies of the 2012 [...]

The wild ride of vintage 2011 has come to an end, with the last fermentations finished now, and all will be pressed-off and in barrel in the next couple of days. Kudos to Kelley Fox and her crew on a job exceedingly well done. It was not an easy one – late, cold, and all [...]

Our 6th annual La Paulée de Carlton is in the books, and it was a rockin’ good time, to say the least. My sincere thanks to everyone that joined us for our harvest celebration and communion with Bacchus. It was a lovely evening of well-choreographed controlled chaos – just they way I like it! One [...]

Plan now to join us for Oregon’s foremost feast of Burgundian Bacchanalia – our 6th annual La Paulée de Carlton dinner. Held every year on the first Saturday of November, this year’s event will take place at the Oregon Olive Mill in the Dundee Hills. A “Paulée” is an ancient Burgundian tradit