Paula Renee Eakin, who spent 27 years working at Washington’s Ste Michelle Wine Estates (SMWE) most recently as the company’s sparkling winemaker, passed away December 20th at her home in Kennewick, Washington. She was 52. No cause Read more...
Happy holidays everyone! I wish you all a holiday season filled with loved ones, happiness, and, of course, Northwest wine. Thank you all for reading and following along this year. We'll do it all again Read more...
50+ wines reviewed below, including the latest from DeLille, Dusted Valley, Amos Rome, Luke, Gramercy, Lemelson, Soter, and more. At Northwest Wine Report, all scores come from blind tastings in varietal/style sets. Read more about this site’s process Read more...
Since first purchasing land in the area in 1971, David Adelsheim of Adelsheim Vineyard has been involved in nearly every aspect of the evolution of Willamette Valley. This spans from near the valley’s earliest days as a Read more...
In 1971, David Adelsheim and his wife Ginny purchased a piece of property near Newberg, Oregon with the aim of planting a vineyard. As that site produced commercial fruit in 1978, Adelsheim Vineyard became the Read more...
Jessica Selander’s reasons for starting Jøyus, a Seattle-based alcohol-free wine company, were simple. She doesn’t drink alcohol, having been sober for 17 years.“Drinking is a huge part of our culture in the United States,” Selander says. Read more...
"It must have been something in the air in Brunswick, Maine," Foolhardy Vintners co-founder Jonathan Edelman wryly says of starting a winery. Edelman’s freshman year roommate at Brunswick’s Bowdoin College was Hugh Davies, now long-time president of Read more...
The Pacific Northwest received outsized recognition at the 2022 Global Fine Wine Challenge, an invitation-only wine judging that focuses on New World wines. Six Northwest wines received trophies for best of category out of twenty trophies Read more...
At the start of this year, I began reviewing Oregon wines for Wine Enthusiast magazine. (I had been covering Washington as a contributing editor since 2013.) I subsequently ended my tenure at the magazine in July.While I have Read more...
"It's somewhere between retirement and a job," Greg Peiker says starting his winery, Quiddity Wines, in Woodinville. Peiker worked at nearby Microsoft on the operations side of the software business for nearly 20 years. Realizing Read more...
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