A round-up of stories on Washington wine from November 1st to 7th 2011. Read previous round-ups here.From Around the Country…The Washington Times writes about Initiative 1183.D Magazine writes about Amavi Cellars Semillon. Read more...
As expected, Initiative 1183 was approved by Washington voters by a wide margin on Tuesday. Here’s what comes next.With its passage, Initiative 1183 closes state liquor stores, privatizes liquor distribution and sales, permits volume discounting Read more...
November's Virtual Tasting wine will be the Bookwalter Winery Bookmark Red Wine NV. This wine retails for $15 and is widely available. The tasting will take place Wednesday November 30th from 7-8pm Pacific.What you need Read more...
All across Washington, harvest started wrapping up this week with many winemakers reporting that they were bringing in their last fruit. For some, harvest finished right when they expected. For others, the recent cold weather Read more...
As mentioned previously, there had been some speculation about whether the state would announce which private company would receive a contract to distribute spirits in advance of Election Day in an attempt to influence Initiative Read more...
A reader asked me to provide some additional detail as to why I thought Initiative 1183 would negatively impact small wineries, distributors, and retailers. For all, here’s a distillation of the argument presented in previous Read more...
A round-up of stories on Washington wine from October 21nd to 31st. Read previous round-ups here. From around the world…Edmonton Journal writes about Charles Smith.From around the country…MSNBC writes about multiple winery tasting rooms.Anapolis Capitol Read more...
Below is a summary of posts for October 2011.Summary of Posts for September 2011Washington Wine Round-up September 22nd to 30th 2011Dumas Station – Quality At Any Price2011 Harvest Report – October 6th Edition Read more...
In tough times, we continue the search for good, inexpensive wines. Read more…
Below are links to two recent radio interviews.The first is a brief spot on KUOW 94.9's Weekday show discussing Initiative 1183. My spot on the show is about 40 minutes in.The second is from Table Read more...
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