• Pinot Gris by Iris Vineyards tops McMinnville Wine Classic judging
• Maryhill Winery climbs atop Platinum Awards all-time leaderboard
• Sniff, Sip, Swirl: Let’s Talk About Northwest Wines grows its following
• The Wine Knows: A new start for Great Northwest Wine
• Tasting Room Perspective: A wine club you don’t want to join
• A Vine Start: 23 years later, here’s another Volume 1, Issue No. 1
• Napa winemaker produces Platinum’s top wine at Chris Daniel Winery
• Pinot Noir catches on in Oregon as white wine
• Red Mountain-focused Liberty Lake Wine Cellars bats 7-for-7 at Platinum Awards
• None in the top 10, but nine from Northwest get inside Wine Spectator’s top 60

All posts by Eric Degerman

About Eric Degerman

Eric Degerman is the President and CEO of Great Northwest Wine. He is a journalist with more than 30 years of daily newspaper experience and has been writing about wine since 1998. He co-founded Wine Press Northwest magazine with Andy Perdue and served as its managing editor for a decade. He is a frequent wine judge at international wine competitions throughout North America and orchestrates 10 Northwest competitions each year.

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  Pinot Gris by Iris Vineyards tops McMinnville Wine Classic judging

  The Iris Vineyards 2020 Pinot Gris won the first wine competition of 2022 staged in the Northwest, the McMinnville (Ore.) Wine Classic.

  • Posted January 18, 2022
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  Maryhill Winery climbs atop Platinum Awards all-time leaderboard

  KENNEWICK, Wash. — Maryhill Winery in Goldendale, Wash., moved atop the all-time leaderboard for the Platinum Awards after judges in 2021 elevated seven of its gold medal bottlings to the

  • Posted January 12, 2022
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  A Vine Start: 23 years later, here’s another Volume 1, Issue No. 1

  My favorite adage is a simple one with unending applications in life — “Never say never.” I would never have thought about starting and owning a printed wine publication with

  • Posted January 3, 2022
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  Napa winemaker produces Platinum’s top wine at Chris Daniel Winery

  QUINCY, Wash. — It’s not the story of a hired gun, but there is a young hot shot Napa Valley winemaker and his father who are crafting some of the

  • Posted January 3, 2022
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  Red Mountain-focused Liberty Lake Wine Cellars bats 7-for-7 at Platinum Awards

  LIBERTY LAKE, Wash. — A sign behind the tasting bar at Liberty Lake Wine Cellars reads #RedMtnUnfiltered, and what winemaker Mark Lathrop managed at Great Northwest Wine’s Platinum Awards was

  • Posted January 3, 2022
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  None in the top 10, but nine from Northwest get inside Wine Spectator’s top 60

  There are no Pacific Northwest bottlings in Wine Spectator’s Top 10 of 2021, but our region placed nine among the top 60 when the wine world’s leading publication announced its

  • Posted November 22, 2021
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  Bob Bertheau joins German icon Loosen at J. Christopher Wines

  NEWBERG, Ore. — Fans of Riesling around the world came to know Bob Bertheau and German icon Ernst Loosen as the remarkable team of “Bert & Erni” as they worked

  • Posted November 15, 2021
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  Abeja Chardonnay edges DeLille’s Harrison Hill at Great Northwest Invitational

  HOOD RIVER, Ore. — Judges at the 2021 Great Northwest Invitational Wine Competition thumbed their noses at the A-B-C crowd – “Anything but Chardonnay” – by voting the Abeja 2020 Washington

  • Posted November 12, 2021
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  Election Day arrives for office-seeking Airfield Estates Winery owner

  PROSSER, Wash. — Tonight, Lori Stevens hopes to celebrate her election to the Port of Benton Commission, and it’s a safe bet that she’d toast her supporters with a glass

  • Posted November 2, 2021
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  Bledsoe, McDaniels buy Hope Well Vineyard in Oregon’s Eola-Amity Hills

  It is not often these days in the Pacific Northwest wine industry when a vineyard of renown is sold to a family-owned winery operated by Northwest natives, but that’s the

  • Posted September 24, 2021
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