• Columbia Valley growers, winemaker look back on Mount St. Helens
• Salty fries and old Spätlese; the ’99 Bottles’ that made Andre Mack a somm
• Oregon wineries woo sports broadcaster Tony Kornheiser
• Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance moves Celebrate to 2021
• Early freeze, drop in demand lead to smallest harvest for Washington wine since 2012
• Stock helps David Hill join ranks of B Corp wineries
• First markers for 2020 vintage include wet January, cool start to April
• In tune with Bells Up Winery in Oregon’s Chehalem Mountains
• Ste. Michelle Wine Estates closes wineries, tasting rooms to public
• Fortuity Cellars recruits winemaker Alexis Sells from Duckhorn

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  Willamette Valley Vineyards 2016 Brut, Willamette Valley, $55

  Joe Ibrahim, a native of New York, and his team has earned a great deal of acclaim for this example of méthode Champenoise using Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The recent – and overdue – embrace of sparkling...

  • Posted May 2, 2020
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  Gran Moraine Winery NV Brut Rosé, Yamhill-Carlton, $55

  One of the jewels in the Jackson Family Wines portfolio within the Willamette Valley, the Gran Moraine estate vines for this methode Champenoise approach with Chardonnay (57%) and Pinot Noir date back to 2005 on this site...

  • Posted April 30, 2020
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  Seven Hills Winery 2019 Dry Rosé, Columbia Valley, $18

  Each spring, the brilliance of Walla Walla Valley winemaker Casey McClellan is on display with one of the Pacific Northwest’s classiest examples of rosé. He pulls from the McClellan Estate Vineyard, denHoed and Gamache, staying true to...

  • Posted April 29, 2020
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  Valcan Cellars 2019 Rosé of Malbec, Rogue Valley, $22

  Argentine-born winemaker JP Valot of Silvan Ridge continues to grow his own brand around and beyond Eugene. He pays tribute to his homeland in this delightful work with the Bordeaux variety that has helped make Argentina famous....

  • Posted April 29, 2020
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  Lagana Cellars 2018 Breezy Slope Vineyard Pinot Noir Rosé, Walla Walla Valley $20

  The DeWitt family of Dumas Station Wines owns Breezy Slope, a lofty and cooler site near Milton-Freewater, Ore., and Jason Fox and Todd Bernave struck gold with this pink produced from the Dijon clone 115 Pinot Noir...

  • Posted April 26, 2020
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  L’Ecole No. 41 2018 Chardonnay, Columbia Valley, $20

  The Walla Walla wine industry’s historic schoolhouse pulls from four vineyards in cooler sites across the state — including famous Evergreen in the Ancient Lakes and Stillwater Creek in the Frenchman Hills — for the Clubb family’s...

  • Posted April 24, 2020
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  Abacela 2018 Estate Albariño, Umpqua Valley, $21

  Another wildly successful Spanish-inspired experiment at Abacela, this one began in 2000 with a half-acre on the north side of a hill. Now, Albariño is the flagship white wine for Earl and Hilda Jones in Roseburg, Ore....

  • Posted April 24, 2020
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  Mark Ryan Winery 2016 Dead Horse Cabernet Sauvignon, Red Mountain, $60

  When Mark McNeilly started out at the turn of the century, Dead Horse was one of the two wines he opened with. He still views it as his flagship bottling. He maintains his long-standing relationship with Ciel...

  • Posted April 24, 2020
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  Sawtooth Winery 2018 Classic Fly Series Dry Riesling, Snake River Valley, $18

  Idaho excels with many varieties and styles of wine, and Riesling has been the constant. When she took over at Ste. Chapelle in 2016, Meredith Smith became the state’s leading producer of Riesling, and she still shows...

  • Posted April 24, 2020
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  4 Cellars by Little Big Town 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon, Columbia Valley, $20

  There were no wine sightings on their video for Pontoon, but American country quartet of Little Big Town has enjoyed its relationship with Walla Walla winemaker John Freeman under their 4 Cellars brand for Precept Wine. He...

  • Posted April 22, 2020
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