May’s Five Wines Under $15
In tough times, we continue the search for good, inexpensive wines. Read more…
Tonight! May Virtual Tasting – 2009 Pacific Rim Riesling Columbia Valley
The May Virtual Tasting will be tonight from 7-8pm Pacific. The wine is the 2009 Pacific Rim Columbia Valley Riesling. This wine retails for $12 and is widely available. If you can't find this wine - or prefer another style - feel free to grab any of the Pacific Rim wines and join in (Note: Read more...
Skylite Cellars – One family learns the true meaning of ‘investment’
Reminder: This month’s Virtual Tasting takes place Wednesday the 25th at 7-8pm Pacific Time. Read more about it here.Skylite Cellars is located a short distance from downtown Walla Walla, just off Highway 12. The winery is one of a number to suddenly find itself off the beaten path when the highway moved in 2010.Cheryl Hodgins Read more...
Washington Wine Round-up May 15th to 21st 2011
Reminder: This month’s Virtual Tasting takes place Wednesday the 25th at 7-8pm Pacific Time. Read more about it here.A round-up of stories on Washington wine from May 15th to 21st. See previous round-ups here. From around the country…The Washington Post writes about Aligote with a callout to Jed Steele.Market Watch writes about Bill Foley going Read more...
Unsung wineries – Woodinville Wine Cellars
Woodinville Wine Cellars is one of Washington’s unsung wineries – one that consistently produces high quality wine yet remains largely below the radar.The winery was founded by Stan Barrett. Barrett is President and CEO of Art Culinaire, sole US distributor for Lacanche professional cooking ranges. Several of these ranges are in use at the winery, Read more...
Old school! Recent print articles
Fellow Washington wine lovers, the May/June edition of edibleSeattle contains an article I wrote titled 'Integral Parts: The Land and Family of Syncline Winery.' Also, the current edition of Wine & Jazz Magazine contains the article 'Columbia Gorge: A hidden gem straddling the Washington and Oregon border.'Note that both of these articles are only available Read more...
Pamplin Family Winery – The joy of discovery
Wines like the Pamplin Family Winery JRG Red Wine are part of what makes drinking wine so exciting – the joy of discovery. Robert Pamplin Jr. founded Pamplin Family Winery in 2007 in Dundee, Oregon with the goal of “making the best Bordeaux varietal wines from the Pacific Northwest.” While this may seem an audacious Read more...
Merlot strikes back!
In 2004 the movie Sideways seemingly dealt a deathblow to Merlot for a generation of wine drinkers. In the movie, the character Myles famously states, “If anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving. I am NOT drinking any f#!ing Merlot!” Merlot sales subsequently dropped and Pinot Noir, the character’s preferred wine, correspondingly rose.Why did Myles malign merlot? Read more...
Washington Wine Round-up May 8th to 14th 2011
A round-up of stories on Washington wine from May 8th to 14th. See previous round-ups here.From around the country…The New York Times writes about Myles Anderson sharing Walla Walla Vintners wine with hikers in the Rogue River area.The Pensacola News Journal says that its time for haters to stop hating Chardonnay with a callout to Read more...
An inconvenient truth about spring in Seattle: 2010 rosé round-up
There is an inconvenient truth about spring in western Washington. It’s just not very spring like!A recent look at the daily temperatures here serves as a case in point: high of 50, low of 46. Day after day after day after day. When I asked a friend recently what the next day’s weather was going Read more...
