Happy Belated New Year! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday.

Santa brought us a new equine friend for the barn, wave to Jesse next time your passing by, he’s the cute Paint (bay & white) pulling down fences in the back.

We are busy in the kitchen working on the Winter Line. Blood Orange with Campari & Vanilla is my handsdown favourite (yes, I know I shouldn’t pick favourites) so delicious over cottage cheese for a ‘healthy’ breakfast!

Patrick is bottling the 2008 Syrah in the next couple weeks and it’s tasting great straight out of the barrel! We have a couple other surprises coming up shortly, stay tuned.

We’ve re-opened the Farmgate Shop & Tasting Room early this year and hope you’ll stop in for a visit and taste soon!

Patrick & Lee

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Upcoming Events & Tastings

February 14th – 28th – Vista D’oro Open 7 days a week – 10am until 4pm

February 17th – Sutton Place Wine Merchants – Wine Tasting 3pm – 7pm

February 19th – Pacific Spirits – Wine Tasting 3pm – 5pm

For updated event listings be sure to check our website events page at www.vistadoro.com/events.html

Farmgate Shop & Tasting Room  – Special Olympic Hours

In case you have friends and family in town for the Olympics and want to do a littlewine tasting & touring in between Luge events, Vista D’oro Farmgate Shop and Tasting Room with be open 7 days a week from

February 14th until February 28th, 2010 – same hours 10am until 4pm.

Am I allowed to say – Take home a gold…D’oro??

New In Store – Marco Ropke Chocolates & Cookie Doughs!

Vista D’oro – 4th Annual Operation – Cookies for Kids – Update

Thank you to all of you who helped and supported our  4th Annual Operation – Cookies for Kids Fundraiser. We raised a little over $10,000, bringing our total raised to over $40,000 in the last four years. We couldn’t do this without the generousity of our amazing chefs, bakers and students….

This year’s Baker elves included: Beyond @ The Century Plaza, Bishop’s Restaurant, Culinary Capers, db Bistro Moderne, Elixir – Opus Hotel, Krause Berry Farms, Les Amis du Fromage, Northwest Culinary Academy, O’Doul’s – Listel Hotel,Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts, Pane E Fromaggio, Pourhouse Restaurant, Terra Breads Bakery and Toast of Town Catering.

Special thanks also goes out to tin sponsors Leo & Mary Patchett of Patchett Excavating Ltd., Nancy Wilson of Fit to be Tied for the beautiful bows and again to Chef Julian Bond & the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts for the all the extra help and space for assembling the tins!

We also wish to thank all those who helped make this possible through your generous donations to purchase the cookie tins, essentially putting your Christmas dollars to work.

We sincerely appreciate your support and wish you all a very happy & prosperous 2010,

Patrick & Lee Murphy
Vista D’oro Farms & Winery