Last Labor Day weekend, winemaker Ross Mickel of Woodinville’s Ross Andrew Winery died in a seaplane crash near Whidbey Island. His pregnant wife, Lauren Hilty, and the couple’s 22-month old son, Remy, were also killed 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...
In tough times, we continue the search for good, inexpensive wines.Barnard Griffin is one of Washington State’s value standard bearers. The winery makes a wide variety of wines in the value range. These wines are Read more...
The Fresh Sheet – reviews of recent and current Washington wine releases – for today includes wines from Betz Family Winery, Guardian Cellars, Gorman Winery, SYZYGY, Spring Valley Vineyard, Col Solare, and Cadaretta. Read more...
Long time readers know of my concern (obsession?) with wine temperature. Summer is thus a particularly challenging time for me. I am constantly transferring wines from the fridge to the ice bucket to the freezer. Read more...
What follows is a Focus report on Grand Rêve. Download a .pdf version of this report here. Read previous Focus reports here.Grand Rêve – the name of a new winery in Washington State – translates Read more...
Dave Butner of Kaella Winery is a Social Media success story. A native of Los Angeles, Butner moved to Washington in 1984. He started out as a home brewer around this time and didn’t turn Read more...
Tim Stevens was studying English literature and working in a restaurant to make ends meet when he first became interested in wine. He subsequently met winemaker Matthew Loso at a tasting group in what would Read more...
What follows is a Focus report on Betz Family Winery. Read a .pdf version of this report here. See previous Focus reports here.Betz Family Winery was founded by Bob and Cathy Betz in 1997. The Read more...
Like many Washington winemakers, Guardian Cellars’ Jerry Riener works another full-time job to help fund his passion for wine. Unlike most of them, his day job is as a police officer.Riener was driving down the Read more...
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