• Koenig wins Idaho Wine Competition for new owners
• Bledsoe Family Winery set to open tasting room in Oregon
• Northwest vineyards track along 2017 vintage after cool July
• Idaho wine industry prepares for 10th annual judging
• Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance hires Robert Hansen as executive director
• 2019 American Wine Society conference casts spotlight on Pacific Northwest
• BC wine industry loses a lion with passing of Harry McWatters
• VineLines Dispatch: Growing support for WSU wine research
• Amelia Wynn 2016 Grenache wins Washington State Wine Competition
• Zerba Cellars 2016 Wild Z wins Walla Walla wine competition

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Articles authored by Great Northwest Wine are co-authored by Eric Degerman and Andy Perdue. In most cases, these are wine reviews that are judged blind by the Great Northwest Wine tasting panel.

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  Buty Winery 2017 Conner Lee Vineyard Chardonnay, Columbia Valley, $42

  Nina Buty has stayed true to Chardonnay from historic Conner Lee Vineyard since her inaugural vintage of 2000, and her current release with winemaking Chris Dowsett reflects their modest style. It hails from two blocks, including a...

  • Posted August 15, 2019
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  Wines of Sagemoor 2016 Weinbau Vineyard Miguel the Man Limited Release Merlot/Cabernet Franc, Wahluke Slope, $50

  Avennia/Passing Time winemaker Chris Peterson has been working with storied Sagemoor fruit since 2010, but Miguel Rodriguez has been tending Merlot and Cabernet Franc blocks at Weinbau Vineyard dating to 1997. Kent Waliser, director of vineyard operations...

  • Posted August 14, 2019
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  Walport Family Cellars NV Twisted Vines Red Wine, Applegate Valley, $35

  Eric Walport grew up on his family cattle ranch in Southern Oregon’s Applegate Valley, and the aerospace engineer has returned from Southern California with wife, Amy, and their young daughter to farm and grow grapes. This early...

  • Posted August 14, 2019
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  Amelia Wynn Winery 2017 Pinot Noir, Oregon State, $36

  Puget Sound producer Paul Bianchi used Grenache grapes from Washington’s Horse Heaven Hills to win best of show at the 2019 Washington State Wine Competition. That bottling was from the 2016 vintage. A year later, the siren...

  • Posted August 13, 2019
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  Liberty Lake Wine Cellars 2016 Bud Burst Reserve Red Wine, Red Mountain, $38

  Emerging winemaker Mark Lathrop continues to delight consumers who swing off Interstate 90 east of Spokane, Wash., and the four barrels of this Meritage-style red off Red Mountain provide another delicious reason why. His base of Cabernet...

  • Posted August 13, 2019
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  Laissez Faire 2018 Red Table Wine, Snake River Valley, $18

  Melanie Krause and Joe Schnerr of acclaimed Cinder Wines near Boise continue show their talented resourcefulness with the everyday Laissez Faire program. Their latest edition pulls in Sangiovese (48%), Mourvedre (24%), Merlot (14%) and Tempranillo from Williamson...

  • Posted August 13, 2019
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  Crescent Hill Winery 2017 Glennallyn Private Reserve Gewürztraminer, Okanagan Valley, $21

  Teresa Wiseman and her winemaking husband Russell carry on the legacy of Crescent Hill Winery in Penticton, British Columbia as a tribute to her late father, Glennallyn, who used Gewürztraminer to establish this family vineyard in 1980...

  • Posted August 13, 2019
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  Saviah Cellars 2017 The Jack Syrah, Columbia Valley, $18

  Richard Funk could have labeled this Syrah under his bargain program known as “The Jack,” as a GSM. It is made up of Syrah (81%), Grenache (10%) and Mourvèdre sourced from nearly a dozen vineyards throughout the...

  • Posted August 13, 2019
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  Barnard Griffin Winery 2018 C’est le Vin Rosé, Washington, $7

  Rob Griffin, the dean of Washington winemakers, practically wrote the book on how to transform Sangiovese in the Columbia Valley and turn it into a gold-medal-winning rosé. The 2018 vintage is no exception. It earned its first...

  • Posted August 13, 2019
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  ICAN by Mercer Wine 2018 Rosé, Washington State $7

  The family behind Mercer Estates in Washington’s Horse Heaven Hills rightly promotes their new ICAN line as a unique entry in the canned wine scene because this vessel is resealable and the plastic ring around the pour...

  • Posted August 13, 2019
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