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 of death was announced. “Paula's time with us left more than beautifully crafted sparkling wines, she taught us how to 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 in 2023. I'll be taking a break from posting articles between now and the end of year. Look for articles 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 for rating and reviewing wines. Read about the Northwest Wine Report rating system and special designations. Read about how to interpret scores. RED WINES BORDEAUX-STYLE BLENDS DeLille D2 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 wine region to one that today has received world-wide recognition. In Part I of my interview, I talked with Adelsheim about 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 first winery in Chehalem Mountains, today recognized as a sub-appellation of Willamette Valley. The Adelsheims were one of only 10 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. “It's something you do when you when you celebrate. It's something you do with your friends. When you're not drinking 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 Schramsberg Vineyards in Calistoga, California. Another classmate a year behind was Nick Peay, now of Peay Vineyards in Cloverdale, California. Bowdoin was also where Edelman met 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 given. Trophy winners were: 2020 Devison Above the Flood GSM Boushey Vineyard Yakima Valley, Best New World Red Blend 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 lived in the Northwest since 2000 and have been tasting Oregon wines both formally and informally during that time, tasting 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 he was approaching retirement, he started to consider what to do next. Having long been interested in food and wine, Peiker Read more...
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