The Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association has an annual oyster event entitled Shellfish Lovers Ultimate Rejuvenation Party (SLURP) on 01-May.  There will be several wineries and breweries, with tons of shellfish to be eaten!  Includes a live auction and live music.  PV will be providing our Melon de Bourgogne for the shellfish, and our Frambelle for the dessert course.  More info and tickets at link above.  Mike is hoping to be there in person, but that hinges on someone taking care of the tasting room at the vineyard that day.  If you might be interested in pouring and selling wine for a day, please reply to this email and let me know, perhaps we can make this work!  You might also want to consider joining our pv-helpers email list where I call for volunteers for things like this.

If you've visited us before, you are likely to be aware the Mike is a big fan of KPLU, it's often on in the background in the winery.  This is a local NPR radio station, with a jazz and blues focus.  I listen to this station pretty much exclusively because of the commercial-free jazz and blues format.  Pacific Lutheran University owns and operates the station, but agreed to sell it to University of Washington.  UW has made it clear the format will be changed, and has not made any promises to keep the high quality local jazz focus that I care about.

When the sale was announced, the community hit the proverbial ceiling, and roared!  PLU has graciously listened, and given a community group an opportunity to buy the station license themselves.  If you care to save pretty much the last remaining independent newsroom in the pacific northwest, and/or if you love jazz and/or blues, I urge you to consider donating.  The SaveKPLU campaign has until 30-June to raise $7M - sounds tough but we're very near $4M.

Poulsbo will have a big to-do on Thu 28-Apr, with some thirty-odd businesses participating, doing special events all to help to save KPLU.  Perennial Vintners will be open that day at the tasting room and will contribute 10% of all sales that day to Save KPLU.  We are also expecting to have wine in the evening at some venue in Poulsbo, we're still working out the details.

Our Executive Chef Andrew MacMillen has updated our website with the last few events recipes.  These were for our Wine Club wine pickup evenings.  The first was an Ajo Blanco (White Gazpacho) with Manchego, Caramelized Shallot & Paprika Spread, the second was an Alsatian Choucroute Garnie with Parsley Potatoes.  Both were enjoyed immensely by our wine club members, and they're not that hard to make yourself - you'll want to try them out yourself!  Go to our Recipes page here.

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