• Alliance of Women in Washington Wine creates $5,000 scholarship
• Tinte Cellars adds second Red Mountain vineyard
• 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

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Articles credited to Great Northwest Wine are authored by Eric Degerman and other contributors. In most cases, these are wine reviews that are judged blind by the Great Northwest Wine tasting panel.

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  Eternal Wines 2016 Eternal Echo Syrah, Columbia Valley, $59

  The single-vineyard project of erstwhile Empire State sommelier Brad Binko zeroed in on Gamache Vineyard for an Oct. 3 pick during a vintage that wasn’t an easy one for Syrah

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  Maryhill Winery 2019 Proprietor’s Reserve Chardonnay, Columbia Valley, $35

  Tudor Hills Vineyard, a breadbasket in the Yakima Valley for Richard Batchelor, sets the stage for this reserve Chardonnay. A 10-month barrel program in 40% new French oak that includes

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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  DeLille Cellars 2018 D2 Red Wine, Columbia Valley, $45

  Five times in the history of the judging has this Woodinville icon received a Platinum for its flagship wine that pays tribute to the nickname for Medoc’s famed La Route

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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  Chateau Ste. Michelle 2020 Le Rosé, Columbia Valley, $25

  Before graduating from the University of California-Davis as a winemaker, Lacey Steffey taught first-graders. Her work with this rosé from Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah has gone to the head of

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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  Zerba Cellars 2017 Cockburn Vineyard Estate GSM Blend, Walla Walla Valley, $50

  For the third time in the past six years, the 2011 Pacific Northwest Winery of the Year has used a blend in the style of Southern Rhône for a Platinum.

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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  Cougar Crest Estate Winery 2017 Estate Merlot, Walla Walla Valley, $34

  In addition to celebrating a victory in the Apple Cup by her alma mater, grower/winemaker Deborah Hansen can use her ninth career Platinum — her fifth in the past two

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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  Bluebird Hill Cellars 2018 South Block Reserve Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, $49

  Husband/wife winemakers Neil and Sue Shay have day jobs connected to their estate along the Mid-Willamette Valley Food Trail. Neil is a professor of food science at Oregon State University,

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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  Siren Song Wines 2017 Jolie Red Wine, Washington State, $41

  In his previous life, Kevin Brown was a Seattle software executive with strong ties to a pair of now publicly traded companies. He’s into his second decade as a Washington

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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  Liberty Lake Wine Cellars 2018 Red Heaven Vineyard Tempranillo, Red Mountain, $38

  Of the nine vineyard sites across Red Mountain that are now part of the Shaw Vineyards portfolio, there is only one 2-acre block of Tempranillo. Mark Lathrop, from just his

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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  Camaraderie Cellars 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon, Columbia Valley, $29

  Olympic Peninsula winemaker Don Corson uses this nicely aged Cabernet Sauvignon to earn the urban geographer’s third Platinum in two years, and his second with Cab. The University of Oregon

  • Posted January 26, 2022
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