• Coyote Canyon Winery uses superb Sangiovese to top 7th annual Cascadia International Wine Competition
• Precept Wine floats marketing campaign for House Air
• Taste Washington looks to top 7,000 patrons for Grand Tastings
• VineLines Dispatch: James Beard Foundation spotlights Mike Sauer of Red Willow Vineyard
• Tim Hanni MW to speak at WSU fundraiser in Richland
• Auction of Washington Wines names Jamie Peha as executive director
• Auction of Washington Wines selects 2019 honorary grower, vintner
• Cabernet Sauvignon production grows by 29 percent in Washington wine industry
• Purity, sophistication at play on Youngberg Hill in McMinnville
• March enters as lion for Columbia Valley vineyards

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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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  Mercer Family Vineyards 2017 Chardonnay, Horse Heaven Hills $13

  Best Buy! Last year, Rob and Will Mercer chose to rebrand Mercer Canyons and reposition it as Mercer Family Vineyards as part of their distribution collaboration with Delicato Family Wines. And winemaker Jeremy Santo, homemade in Prosser,...

  • Posted April 1, 2019
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  Drumheller Wines 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon, Columbia Valley $12

  Best Buy! This young brand from Ste. Michelle Wine Estates produces what has become the house Cab at The Lodge at Columbia Point, the boutique hotel in Richland, Wash., built by the late Tom Drumheller. The brand’s...

  • Posted March 31, 2019
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  Upchurch Vineyard 2016 Counterpart Red Wine, Red Mountain $50

  Chris Upchurch calls his Merlot-dominated red blend “Counterpart,” blending Merlot (65%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (35%) drawn from his estate Red Mountain vineyard into the 2016 version. Its Merlot backbone shows in its blackberry and blueberry aromas, with...

  • Posted March 31, 2019
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  Sharecropper’s Wine Co. 2017 Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, $16

  David O’Reilly now lives in the Yakima Valley, yet he and his Owen Roe team continue to produce one of the Pacific Northwest’s most approachable and affordable examples of Pinot Noir under his Sharecropper’s program, which was...

  • Posted March 31, 2019
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  Township 7 Vineyards & Winery 2017 Blue Terrace Vineyard Reserve Sauvignon Blanc, Okanagan Valley, $27

  Andrew Peller alum Mary McDermott’s remarkably expressive work with Sauvignon Blanc begins in the southern Okanagan Valley of British Columbia at Blue Terrace Vineyard near the town of Oliver. She made this pick at 22 Brix on...

  • Posted March 25, 2019
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  Pepper Bridge Winery 2015 Estate Vineyards Merlot, Walla Walla Valley $50

  The 2019 vintage will signal the 20th anniversary of Norm McKibben and Jean-François Pellet’s estate Merlot program, and harvest for this wine from the historically hot vintage began on Sept. 3. That was three weeks earlier than...

  • Posted March 25, 2019
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  Tenet Wines 2016 The Pundit, Columbia Valley $25

  By the looks of it, Ste. Michelle Wine Estates can help do for Syrah what it has done with Riesling. Here’s another example of Chateau Ste. Michelle head winemaker Bob Bertheau collaborating with European experts to create...

  • Posted March 25, 2019
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  Finn Hill Winery 2014 Le Beau Cabernet Sauvignon, Red Mountain, $30

  Wine Press Northwest’s Washington Winery to Watch in 2016 celebrated its 10th anniversary last year, and this Cab by Rob Entrekin proved to be one of the most decorated in state during 2018. It began Oct. 18...

  • Posted March 24, 2019
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  Harry & David Vineyards 2016 Chardonnay, Oregon $20

  This Southern Oregon iconic orchard fruit producer works with vineyards throughout the state for its consumer-friendly, medium-bodied Chardonnay program. Its fun nose of orange gummy bears, Golden Delicious apple, facial powder and peach skin leads to an...

  • Posted March 24, 2019
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  TruthTeller Winery 2015 The Madman Red Wine, Columbia Valley, $35

  In the Old World, such a blend would such as this would be in the shadows. In Woodinville’s Warehouse District, Chris Loeliger’s blend of Syrah (60%), Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc shows delicious brilliance, and it starts...

  • Posted March 24, 2019
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