• Brian Carter Cellars adds Latin influence with marketing hire
• VineLines Dispatch: A Gorgeous look at harvest
• Goose Ridge hires Peter Devison as winemaking consultant
• Tri-City winemaker Palencia partners on Culture Shock mobile catering
• Armstrong Family Winery turns Discovery Vineyard Syrah into best wine at Great Northwest Invitational
• VineLines Dispatch: Harvest of Walla Walla Valley
• VineLines Dispatch: September to remember on Red Mountain
• VineLines Dispatch: Woodinville crushes through smoke, pandemic
• Sweet 16th AVA in Washington belongs to Candy Mountain
• H3 2016 Cab rides off as Washington State Wine Competition best of show

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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  Brian Carter Cellars adds Latin influence with marketing hire

  Brian Carter, fresh off of his 41st crush as a winemaker, introduced Andreina Bacigalupo as the new marketing and sales director for Brian Carter Cellars, which operates tasting rooms in Woodinville, Wash., and Vancouver USA. Bacigalupo, a...

  • Posted November 23, 2020
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  Goose Ridge hires Peter Devison as winemaking consultant

  Family-owned Goose Ridge Estate Winery & Vineyards in Richland, Wash., has hired Peter Devison, one of the state’s top winemakers, as a consultant for director of winemaking Andrew Wilson. The Monson family operates one of the Northwest’s...

  • Posted November 18, 2020
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  Armstrong Family Winery turns Discovery Vineyard Syrah into best wine at Great Northwest Invitational

  HOOD RIVER, Ore. — Tech exec Tim Armstrong began his admiration for the Washington wine industry in 2009 when he and his wife, Jennifer, were living in Chicago. Two years later, with winemaking courses through University of...

  • Posted November 10, 2020
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  Sweet 16th AVA in Washington belongs to Candy Mountain

  Sweet news came from the federal government on Sept. 25 with the establishment of the Candy Mountain American Viticultural Area, which gave the Washington state wine industry its 16th AVA. Candy Mountain, a portion of which is...

  • Posted September 25, 2020
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  H3 2016 Cab rides off as Washington State Wine Competition best of show

  Two years after it earned acclaim from the world’s most influential wine publication, the Columbia Crest 2016 H3 Cabernet Sauvignon finished atop the 2020 Washington State Wine Competition as the best of show. Since there were 500,000...

  • Posted September 18, 2020
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  Elephant 7 soars with Yellow Bird Vineyard Grenache at Walla Walla Valley Wine Competition

  Josh West of Elephant Seven Wine in downtown Walla Walla has a pretty good idea what he’ll hear from vineyard manager Kenny Hart when the news breaks about the best wine at the 2020 Walla Walla Valley...

  • Posted September 2, 2020
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  Dunham Cellars in Walla Walla raises $15,049 for suicide prevention

  WALLA WALLA, Wash. — The global pandemic prompted Joanne Dunham and the Blair family to cancel various festive events surrounding the 25th anniversary of Dunham Cellars in Walla Walla. Instead, they found another way to make a...

  • Posted August 31, 2020
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  USA Today readers vote Walla Walla Valley as America’s Best Wine Region

  The Pacific Northwest wine industry continues to build upon its reputation beyond its borders, and the latest example came today when the Walla Walla Valley was announced as America’s Best Wine Region as part of the 2020...

  • Posted August 21, 2020
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  Williamson Vineyards young Albariño rises to top of 2020 Idaho Wine Competition

  CALDWELL, Idaho — The Williamson family has been looking for a distinctively different dry white wine to pour in their tasting room on Idaho’s historic Sunnyslope in the Snake River Valley. Judges at the 2020 Idaho Wine...

  • Posted August 19, 2020
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  2020 vintage for Northwest tracks dry, warm but not hot

  If growers and winemakers throughout the Pacific Northwest enjoyed the fruits of their labor from the 2019 vintage, then Mother Nature might be providing a somewhat similar season from an already unforgettable 2020. A number of weather...

  • Posted August 5, 2020
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