Ariel Eberle is well into her second decade making wine for the Burger family, and her touch with rosé from their 150-acre vineyard has been decorated along the way. She focuses the rosé on Dijon clone 115 fruit from two distinct blocks established in 2000 -...
Best Buy! Plantings in Horse Heaven Hills helped show the promise of Malbec in Washington state, and this vintage marked New Zealand native Haydn Mouat's return to the Precept team - this time as head winemaker of Canoe Ridge Vineyard. Classic blue fruit notes...
Last fall, Mark Lathrop's bottling of Cab off Scooteney Flats from the 2018 vintage went Double Platinum. His follow-up from this former Vinagium parcel in the middle of Red Mountain - now controlled by Washington Wine Hall of Famer Dick Shaw - is youthful and...
Branden Seymour received acclaim in Northwest judgings for the 2018 vintage of this Bordeaux blend named for the family pup and grown at the VanArnam planting in the Rattlesnake Hills. Rather than leading with Merlot, it's Malbec (40%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (40%)...
U.S. Navy veteran Kyle Welch has proven to be a quick study with Merlot - a follow-up to his first vintage that he pulled from McKinley Springs Vineyard, just an hour from his tasting room along the rivershore in Richland, Wash. It's a nose filled with dark blue...
Best Buy! Over the past decade, winemaker Gilles Nicault has methodically nudged up the production while also gradually dialing down the dryness. For example, the 2013 vintage of Julia's Dazzle carried nearly 9 grams of residual sugar. This latest release has no...
Part of his Vintner Collection, Seattle-area winemaker Randy Brooks knows that Italian reds such as Barbera need heat, so he worked with Jerry Milbrandt's Northridge Vineyard on the steamy Wahluke Slope for this layered example. There's blackberry, cherry,...
Best Buy! There are four decades of history behind this brand, which helps explain why Hal Landvoigt, director of winemaking for Precept Wine, remains involved in development of these bottlings that routinely overly deliver for the price. It starts with the...
This estate project by this trio linked by family, friendship and The Horse Radish in downtown Carlton, Ore., now serves up a reserve Chardonnay approach in its 100% oak influence yet comes with delicious balance. Of those barrels, 20% were new French oak,...
One of the marvels of the Pacific Northwest wine industry is Mark Ryan McNeilly, whose business acumen syncs up with his ability to make some of the region's most acclaimed wines under myriad successful labels while seeming never losing focus. Lu + Oly Cellars —...
