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D2 The Reflector February 10, 2016Valentine’s Day

Friends of Fort Vancouver host Sweetheart Dance

Wine & ChocolateFeb. 12 - 14

Bring your Valentine to our new tasting room for a sampling of handmade chocolates paired with

Dolio Wines!

11001 NE 314th StreetBattle Ground, WA 98604

DolioWinery.com

Friday & Saturday: Noon - 6:00Sunday: Noon - 5:00

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Limit one per customer per visit

La Center’s

Erin performs as a solo acoustic artist in the Seattle and Leavenworth areas and sings folk music and multi-genre

107 e 4th street in La Center, Wa

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Give the gift of hypnosis to spice up your Valentine’s Day

Couples session

$250 session expires February 29, 2016

Connie OsborneHypnotherapist/Hypnotist

318 E. Main St., #104 • Battle Ground, WA (360) 281-8456 CH

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Hockinson Cafe at Battle Ground

687-2700 219 NW 20th Ave., Battle Ground

FEB. 147am to 3pm

$1169Seafood Omelet

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Shrimp, Lobster, Crab, Tomato,

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experimented with their five acres. They had cows and horses for a while, and then Don thought about the grapes his family had grown when he was a child. He and Pam had grown table grapes when they lived near Beaverton, OR, in the 1990s, but he’d never tried to grow wine grapes.

The first grapes the Klases grew in their nearly 1-acre vine-yard were destroyed by a horde of thirsty yellowjackets, but the 2014 harvest produced an ex-cellent crop of pinot noir, pinot grigio, chardonnay and Phoenix grapes, which the Klases blend-ed into a dry, crisp rosé that has a lovely, traditional orange – not pink – hue. The 2014 Tramonto (Italian for sunset) rosé, made en-tirely of Dolio Vineyard grapes, is available by the bottle and, on special occasions, by the glass at the Dolio Winery tasting room.

The tasting room, of course, is not the only thing that sep-arates Dolio Winery from its southwest Washington winery peers. The Klases also offer a selection of wines that aren’t readily found in other western Washington wineries.

“We make a variety of wines that are not commonly sold in this

county,” Don says. “We have a lot of Italian reds, like the sangiovese, the barbera and the dolcetto.”

“And we noticed that there weren’t a lot of whites (in the ar-ea’s wine tasting rooms), so we wanted to have two or three whites on the tasting list,” Pam adds.

Once they decided what kind of wines they wanted to make, the couple sought out the best grapes for their crisp, light whites and berry-forward Italian reds. They found the perfect grapes in eastern Washington’s Columbia County vineyards.

Although they’ve only been open for seven weekends — and opened just before the January slow down — the Klases say the tasting

room has already drawn a num-ber of neighbors, who want to stop and see the end result of the tasting room’s yearlong construction.

“People who drive by here ev-eryday have wondered what this was going to be,” Don says.

The couple is looking forward to the spring and summer wine tasting seasons, when visitors can bask in the light-filled tasting room, or take their glass of wine outside to the tasting room’s covered patio.

On Valentine’s Day week-end, the tasting room will pair its wines with samples of chocolate from Lillie Belle Farms, an Or-egon-based chocolatier, and will have small boxes of the handcraft-ed chocolates for sale all weekend, Fri., Feb. 12 through Sun., Feb. 14.

The Dolio Winery tasting room hours are from noon to 6 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sun-days. Dolio Winery is located at 11001 NE 314th St., about four miles north of Lewisville Re-gional Park in Battle Ground. For more information, visit their web-site at http://doliowinery.com/ or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DolioWinery.

Sweetheart DanceWhat: Sweetheart Dance

When: Sat., Feb. 13, 7-10 p.m.

Where: Pearson Air Museum and Jack Murdock Aviation Center at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, 1115 E 5th Street, Vancouver

Cost: Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

at a glance

When It’s sUnnY outside, the newly opened Dolio Winery tasting room fills with light and beckons visitors to settle into a table and taste the winery’s variety of crisp white and Italian red wines.

BarreLs FroM the Dolio Winery and Vineyard hold wine in various stages of production. Soon, the owners of Dolio will be able to move the barrels inside their multipurpose tasting room and offer barrel tastings.

PaM KLase, oWner of Dolio Winery, checks on her vineyard, where she and her husband, Don Klase, grow pinot noir, pinot grigio, chardonnay and Phoenix grapes, which they blend into a dry, tart rosé wine named Tramonto.

Photo courtesy of Dolio Winery

Photo courtesy of Dolio Winery

Photo courtesy of Dolio Winery

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