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Bethel Heights Vineyard
Bethel Heights Vineyard is an Oregon winery in the Eola-Amity Hills AVA of the Willamette Valley. Founded in 1977 by twin brothers Ted and Terry Casteel, their wives Pat Dudley and Marilyn Webb, and Pat's sister Barbara Dudley, the vineyard was one of the earliest plantings in the Eola-Amity Hills region. A winery soon followed, with the first estate wines produced in 1984. Bethel Heights specializes in Pinot noir, offering several individual block and vineyard designated bottlings, but also produces wines made from Chardonnay, Pinot gris, Pinot blanc, Riesling, Grüner Veltliner, and Gewürztraminer.John Winthrop Haeger ''Pacific Pinot noir'' pg 51-53 University of California Press, Berkeley, CA 2008 Steve Roberts. ''Wine Trails of Oregon'' pg 234-235 South Slope Productions, Mercer Island, WA 2009 Today, the winery is still owned by members of the Casteel-Dudley-Webb families.Patrick Comiskey 'Passing the baton in Oregon's Willamette Valley'' ''Los Angeles Times'' April 28th, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bethel ( he, בֵּית אֵל, translit=Bēṯ 'Ēl, "House of El (deity), El" or "House of God",Bleeker and Widegren, 1988, p. 257. also transliteration, transliterated ''Beth El'', ''Beth-El'', ''Beit El''; el, Βαιθήλ; la, Bethel) was an ancient Israelites, Israelite sanctuary frequently mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Bethel is first referred to in the bible as being near where Abraham, Abram pitched his tent. Later, Bethel is mentioned as the location where Jacob dreams of a Jacob's Ladder, ladder leading to heaven, and which he therefore named Bethel, "House of God". The name is further used for a border city located between the territory of the Israelite tribe of Benjamin and that of the tribe of Ephraim, which first belonged to the Benjaminites and was later conquered by the Ephraimites. In the 4th century CE, Eusebius of Caesarea and Jerome described Bethel as a small village that lay 12 Roman miles north of Old City (Jerusalem), Jerusalem, to the right or east o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
