• Hot, dry climate July report marks finale by Greg Jones at Linfield
• Betz Family Winery will not release wines from smoky 2020 vintage
• Matías Kúsulas replaces Aryn Morell as Gård Vintners winemaker
• Boise-area Telaya Wine Co., uses Idaho Syrah to top Cascadia International
• Sagemoor enters Walla Walla Valley grape market with Southwind Vineyard purchase
• Fire destroys distillery at Westport Winery Garden Resort in Washington
• Fries family departs Washington wine industry with Desert Wind sale
• Warnshuis realizes dream of Utopia along Oregon’s tiny Ribbon Ridge
• Fidelitas promotes Will Hoppes, Mitch Venohr as part of transition
• New Alliance of Women in Washington Wine already stands at 200 strong

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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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  DeLille Cellars 2018 Four Flags Cabernet Sauvignon, Red Mountain $75

  Comprised of grapes from four vaunted vineyards — Ciel du Cheval (34%), Grand Ciel (20%), Upchurch (21%) and Klipsun — DeLille’s Four Flags is consistent in its excellence while varying year

  • Posted July 5, 2021
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  Tongue River Winery NV Oaky Choke Chokecherry Fruit Wine, Montana, $18

  The Thaden family produces an assortment of non-grape fruit wines, and they’ve bottled several expressions of chokecherry during the first decade of their Miles City, Mont., winery near the Tongue

  • Posted July 5, 2021
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  Jovinea Cellars 2020 Roussanne, Washington, $24

  Lewis-Clark Valley winemaker Lisa Grigg works with several varieties for the whites she and her husband, Michael, producer under their young brand, but she readily admits Roussanne is the one

  • Posted July 5, 2021
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  Bells Up Winery 2019 Summit View Vineyard Firebird Syrah, Walla Walla Valley $48

  This decade-old, high-elevation site in the acclaimed SeVein development south of Milton-Freewater, Ore., largely is known throughout the Northwest for its work with Cabernet Sauvignon. However, Willamette Valley winemaker David

  • Posted July 5, 2021
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  Ponzi Vineyards 2017 Chardonnay Reserve, Laurelwood District $45

  Certified sustainably farmed ingredients continue to attract attention, and Ponzi family has been at the forefront of this movement in the Oregon wine industry. Their reserve expression of Chardonnay from

  • Posted July 5, 2021
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  Argyle Winery 2020 Grower Series Rosé Pinot Noir, Willamette Valley, $20

  This iconic brand based in downtown Dundee, Ore., works with several expressions of rosé — both still and sparkling — and the widely available white-labeled Grower Series is Nate Klostermann’s

  • Posted July 5, 2021
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  L’Ecole N° 41 Winery 2019 Stillwater Creek Vineyard Sèmillon, Columbia Valley, $21

  Well into its second decade of working with Stillwater Creek Vineyard, L’Ecole uses this Sèmillon to help showcase the enduring expertise of longtime viticulturist Ed Kelly at what is arguably

  • Posted July 5, 2021
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  Caprio Cellars 2018 Estate Eleanor Red Wine, Walla Walla Valley, $48

  The flagship wine at this emerging producer in the Walla Walla Valley’s Southside District draws more from the 7-acre estate Eleanor Vineyard surrounding winery than the prior vintage, a blend

  • Posted June 29, 2021
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  Mercer Bros. 2019 Chardonnay, Horse Heaven Hills $17

  In 2018, California-based giant Delicato Family Wines entered a partnership with Rob and Will Mercer that’s branched into the Mercer Bros., label. (The Indelicatos recently added several marquee attractions of

  • Posted June 28, 2021
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  Youngberg Hill Winery 2018 Cuvée Pinot Noir, McMinnville $35

  An Iowa farm boy, Wayne Bailey went on to earn an engineering degree at the University of Nebraska then an MBA at the University of Chicago, but it was a

  • Posted June 28, 2021
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