The February Virtual Tasting wine is the Dusted Valley Vintners 2010 Boomtown Chardonnay. This wine retails for $15 and is reasonably widely available. The tasting will take place on Thursday February 28th from 7-8pm Pacific. What you Read more...
NB: The appellation name was subsequently changed to The Rocks District of Milton-Freewater. For years, winemakers and wine lovers alike have discussed the distinctiveness of the wines coming from the section of the Walla Walla Valley Read more...
A round-up of stories on Washington wine from February 8th to 14th 2013. Read previous round-ups here. From around the country… Shanken Daily News writes about controversy with privatization. The LA Times writes about a bill in Washington Read more...
The following article was written by Ryan Messer. Messer lives in the Yakima Valley and writes about travel and wine tourism in the valley and throughout the state. Read additional background here. I am a Read more...
Watch my segment on wine and chocolate pairing on Seattle’s Q13 News here. We love to talk about pairing wine and chocolate, but most wine lovers and chocoholics would agree that the pairing is often Read more...
This is the first in a series of posts on some of the founding wineries and individuals in the Oregon wine industry. Going on 30 years of winemaking – nearly ten at one of Oregon’s Read more...
I have written in the past (at length) about corked wines, specifically, those wines affected by TCA. TCA causes off aromas and flavors that are variously described as damp basement, wet newspaper, or wet dog among Read more...
A round-up of stories on Washington wine from February 1st to 7th. Read previous round-ups here. From around the country… Wines & Vines writes about the Washington Wine Commission implementing its new strategy. Good Fruit Grower writes Read more...
Pic of the Vine is a monthly image taken by contributor Richard Duval. See previous Pic of the Vine images here. Now that the infamous Washington winter-without-color phase is here, many of us turn to hunting for Read more...
The 2013 Washington State Wine Tour Guide has been released! As in previous years, the guide is divided into eight wine touring regions: Seattle & Puget Sound, Woodinville, Yakima Valley, Tri-Cities, Walla Walla Valley, Spokane Read more...
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