Bud break has begun in eastern Washington. Hedges Family Estate reported seeing wooly buds on their Red Mountain Cabernet Franc on Monday April 8th. Sagemoor Vineyard in the Columbia Valley, meanwhile, saw bud break in their Chardonnay, pictured here, Read more...
Screwcap, DIAM, and Nomacorc (pictured here) are the three most popular alternative closures in Washington Below is a tabulation of closure choice and cork taint data from my tastings for Wine Enthusiast in 2018. I Read more...
Below are my Wine Enthusiast reviews for March 2019. Wines are listed alphabetically by winery. Read additional information on how I review wines here. All of these reviews are freely available on-line at the Wine Enthusiast Buying Guide. See previous Wine Enthusiast reviews Read more...
Below are my Wine Enthusiast reviews for February 2019. Wines are listed alphabetically by winery. Read additional information on how I review wines here. All of these reviews are freely available on-line at the Wine Enthusiast Buying Guide. See previous Wine Enthusiast reviews Read more...
The focus of the May issue of Wine Enthusiast is wine and technology. I wrote a series of articles on this topic for the issue. They include: An interview with Marc Noël of Nomacorc Science Read more...
I've had a variety of articles published in Wine Enthusiast in recent months. The first marks Seattle as one of the magazine's top 10 wine travel destinations of 2019. In a separate article that was part Read more...
Coming to a Washington vineyard very soon – spring color and bud break! Contributing photographer Richard Duval captured this bit of fauna beauty in Walla Walla a few years back. He intends to re-visit for Read more...
February brought an abundance of snow to Washington wine country. Undeterred by the cold and the drifts, contributing photographer Richard Duval spent a day in Yakima Valley en route to the Washington Winegrowers Association conference Read more...
The following article appears in the March issue of Wine Enthusiast. In Washington’s earliest days as a grape-growing region, the state was thought too cool to successfully ripen many warm-climate red grape varieties. Subsequently, cool-climate Read more...
The sun never sets on vineyard work in Washington wine country. With spring inching closer, vineyards need pruning and shaping. From opposite ends of the state, contributing photographer Richard Duval captured two such examples last Read more...
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