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It has been 30 years back Baker and Jean Ferguson launched their baby winery in an old academy in the Walla Walla Valley boondocks of Lowden.
L'Ecole No. 41 was the region's third winery (after Leonetti and Woodward Canyon), and it bound acclaimed itself as one of the state's best, with Jean as the winemaker.
Today, their son-in-law, Marty Clubb, manages the winery with his wife, Megan, whose day job is active Baker Boyer, Washington's oldest bank.
L'Ecole has developed into a winery bearing added than 40,000 cases annually with wine awash beyond the country and in abounding all-embracing markets.
The Clubbs aswell are allotment owners of acclaimed Seven Hills Acreage abreast Milton-Freewater, Ore., and now own Ferguson, a high-elevation acreage aswell on the Oregon ancillary of the Walla Walla Valley. In addition, they accompany in grapes from throughout the Walla Walla and Columbia valleys.
Here are some of their latest releases. Ask for them at your admired wine merchant or acquaintance L'Ecole directly.
L'Ecole No. 41 2010 Merlot, Columbia Valley, $24: This able-bodied Merlot has a star-studded calendar of vineyards abaft it, including Bacchus, Dionysus, Klipsun, Pepper Bridge, Seven Hills and StoneTree. Smoky atramentous cherries, red plum, huckleberry and boilerplate aromas advance to flavors of aphotic blooming and atramentous plum. Sturdy tannins, abutting by amethyst acidity, actualize adorable length.
L'Ecole No. 41 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon, Columbia Valley, $31: Aromas accumulate up hints of red plum, aphotic chocolate, allspice and pencil shavings. Inside, there's a big access of atramentous cherry, apricot chocolate, added asset and atramentous pepper as its anatomy builds with acidity ascendant tannin.
L'Ecole No. 41 2010 Candy Mountain Acreage Red Wine, Columbia Valley, $39: This alloy of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot comes with adorable aromas of aphotic cherry, amber mint, atramentous licorice, horehound, coffee and bivouac smoke. Adventurous flavors of blackberry, plum, birthmark and added atramentous blooming accompany a affluent arrangement that's capped by ablaze acidity of Montmorency cherry.
L'Ecole No. 41 2010 Seven Hills Acreage Estate Perigee, Walla Walla Valley, $50: This alloy of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot is congenital for the continued haul. Heady aromas of beginning boysenberry, blooming preserves, lavender, lavender and cedar are adapted into a buttery access of asset booze and diminished cherries. The midpalate boring builds with able tannins for a anatomy that, accumulated with blueberry acidity, is destined for abundance with cellaring.
L'Ecole No. 41 2010 Seven Hills Acreage Estate Syrah, Walla Walla Valley, $34: This attractive Syrah opens with aromas of atramentous cherry, poached plum, blueberry, boilerplate and minerality. The alcohol brings a adventurous and affluent anatomy of boysenberry, chocolate-covered cherries and fig with Marionberry and bawdiness in the finish.
L'Ecole No. 41 2012 Alder Ridge Acreage Grenache Rose, Horse Heaven Hills, $20: This blush wine opens with aromas of lemon, broiled birthmark and red currant, followed by flavors of accomplished pie cherry, beginning asset and affluent strawberry, all backed with absorbing acidity and a diffuse finish.
L'Ecole No. 41 2012 Chenin Blanc, Columbia Valley, $15: Few are as committed to the blue-blooded Chenin Blanc as Marty Clubb, who has produced a Chenin back 1987. This best opens with aromas of grass, lime, angel bloom and pear, followed by auspicious flavors of white peach, Asian pear and Waldorf salad. Clean, ablaze acidity lifts the bake-apple in this deliciously dry white wine.
L'Ecole No. 41 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon, Walla Walla Valley, $40: The barrage with aromas of minerality, plum, atramentous cherry, Dr Pepper and coffee is followed by flavors of aphotic chocolate, atramentous currant, atramentous olive and cherry. It's a big, close wine that will abide to advance in the cellar.

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Durham Academy’s Head of School, forth with his assistant, covered Vanilla Ice’s around-the-clock archetypal on YouTube to advertise that academy was bankrupt due to snow. Michael Ulku-Steiner and Lee Hark became internet sensations afterwards donning snow accessory and jamming out for their students’ sake.
Are these the two coolest administrators in the world, or what? Head of Academy Michael Ulku-Steiner and his abettor Lee Hark re-wrote the lyrics to Vanilla Ice‘s “Ice Ice Baby” to advertise that North Carolina’s Durham Academy would be bankrupt due to inclimate weather. Once the video hit YouTube, it went viral, and now every kid in America wishes their school’s administrators were air-conditioned abundant — and adventurous abundant — to do something similar! Would you like it if your child’s agents recorded a agnate video and put it online?
Administrators Rap ‘Ice Ice Baby’ In Snow Day Announcement Video
Michael and Lee took what could accept been just addition awning video on YouTube to a new akin by re-writing the lyrics to Vanilla Ice’s ’90s hit “Ice Ice Baby.” The two North Carolina administrators absolutely switched it up if they rapped: “Polar amphitheater has a authority of us tightly, wind like a harpoon circadian and nightly. Will the ability stop? No. I don’t know. Turn up the heat, and let go. Sleet falling down like a actor missiles, bringing academy delays and aboriginal dismissals.”

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But of advance they kept things educational, auspicious kids to break out of the algid acclimate and read: “Don’t anguish kids, the learning’s not lost. [...] Check out a book while the ice dissolves it.”
Administrators ‘Had Fun’ Authoritative Viral Snow Day Video
After traveling viral, the North Carolina admins accept already joked about authoritative addition video for approaching rain delays. ”We were cerebration about a rain adjournment bulletin application Milli Vanilli‘s ‘Blame It on the Rain,’ ” Michael told CNN during an account on Feb. 13. Michael aswell appear that the “Ice Ice Baby” video was “spur of the moment” idea.
This isn’t the aboriginal time academy admiral accept gotten artistic with closing announcements. One anniversary above-mentioned to Durham Academy’s viral hit, the arch of Stephens Elementary Academy in Burlington, Ky., sang a closing tune to Queen‘s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”