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Friday Tasting: Quady & Quady North Wineries

The Quady family has been making wine since 1975. Andrew Quady ‘keeps it sweet’ by producing soft, elegant, highly rated dessert wines at his Quady Winery in Madera, California. His 2009 Elysium Black Muscat scored a 92 in Wine Enthusiast magazine. His son, Herb Quady moved to Southern Oregon and established Quady North in the Applegate and Rogue Valleys in 2005, where he focuses on Syrah, Viognier and Cabernet Franc. It hasn’t taken long for Herb to start getting attention for his outstanding wines (Katherine Cole called him “a winemaker to watch” in The Oregonian and Wine Spectator includes him in the Ten Emerging Oregon Winemakers.) Come by the shop on Friday, May 13th to meet Andrew Quady and taste both his and Herb’s wines. He’ll be sharing tastes of his 2009 Elysium, 2009 Electra and 2009 Essencia, plus pouring samples of Herb Quady’s 2007 Viognier, Steelhead Run Vineyard (91 points in Wine Enthusiast), 2007 Syrah 42-A, and 2008 Cabernet Franc (Double Gold, 2010 Oregon Wine Awards, Best of Class). The free tasting is 4:30 – 6:00, so come on by and make this Friday the 13th your lucky day!