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Wine Enthusiast Reviews for November 2018
Below are my Wine Enthusiast reviews for November 2018. Wines are listed alphabetically by winery. Read additional information on how I review wines here. All of these reviews are freely available...
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Warm, warmer, warmest: A look at the 2013-2015 vintages in Washington and...
Three warm vintages result in very different winesAfter a vintage in 2012 where heat accumulation was a near perfect match for 20-year historical averages in Washington, 2013 through 2015 saw three...
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A closer look at Washington’s 2015 vintage
2015 is the third in what I refer to as Washington’s ‘staircase vintages’ from 2013-2015, where each growing season was a step up in heat accumulation from the previous one (read a recent post...
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A look at October's harvest in Washington
Below is a look at what was picked, when, and where in Washington during October 2018.Harvested ended for some growers in warmer sites toward the end of September, whereas for others it stretched into...
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Perfect harvest weather leads to strong year for Washington
Washington growers and winemakers consistently use one word when describing the weather during 2018’s harvest: perfect.“It was the best weather I’ve ever seen,” said Dick Boushey, who manages vineyards...
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Wine Enthusiast Reviews for December 2018
Below are my Wine Enthusiast reviews for December 2018. Wines are listed alphabetically by winery. Read additional information on how I review wines here. All of these reviews are freely available...
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all! May your holidays and New Year be filled with family, friends, and, of course, great Washington wine.
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Take the 2019 Riesling Challenge!
Well, 2019 is here, and everyone needs a New Year’s resolution or two, especially ones that are achievable. This year, my resolution is to drink more Riesling. Specifically, it is to drink at least one...
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Program would allow Washington prison inmates to work in vineyard, hopyard
A newly proposed program by the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) would allow state penitentiary inmates to work at a Walla Walla vineyard and hopyard. The program would be run in...
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Recent trends in Washington wine
The following article is from the Winter issue of Washington Tasting Room Magazine.Six new AVAs on the horizon, a stellar vintage for white wines, greener packaging and new winery management are among...
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Pic of the Vine - January 2019
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...
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White lightning: Washington's electric 2017 vintage white wines
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...
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Pic of the Vine - February 2019
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...
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Pic of the Vine - March 2019
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...
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Old school! Recent print publications
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...
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Wine and technology
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 NomacorcScience and the...
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Wine Enthusiast Reviews for February 2019
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...
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Wine Enthusiast Reviews for March 2019
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...
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Eight takeaways on closure choice and cork taint in Washington wine
Screwcap, DIAM, and Nomacorc (pictured here) are the three most popular alternative closures in WashingtonBelow is a tabulation of closure choice and cork taint data from my tastings for Wine...
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Bud break begins in eastern Washington
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,...
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