Stephen Reustle's micro-climate north of Roseburg, Ore., allows him to chase an bright orchard fruit style that Willamette Valley producers have made the style for Oregon. He has changed the name — going to Pinot Grigio rather than Pinot Gris — blending clone 146...
Best Buy! A single birch tree stands out among the Miller family's 830 acres of vineyards near the Roza Canal, and this large-production Cab is one of Marcus Miller's seven bottlings under his consumer-friendly second label of Airfield Estates. The nose offers a...
Those who cast with a fly when they fish for brook trout may have a "muddler minnow" in their collection, and Troy Mandeville and John Richardson of Convergence Zone Cellars near North Bend, Wash., pay tribute to Minnesota angler credited with developing the fly...
Best Buy! A trio of respected vineyards in the Horse Heaven Hills — Alder Ridge Vineyards, Canoe Ridge Vineyards and Wallula Vineyards — now all controlled by owners of Precept Wine, contribute to this nicely priced and food-friendly Merlot. There are contributions...
Woodinville vintner Jim Dahlman, on track to open a tasting room in Tacoma's Stadium District this spring, takes a Left Bank-Bordeaux approach to his blend of Cabernet Sauvignon (74%) from French Creek Vineyard in the Yakima Valley that's nicely accented by...
Rising star Kyle Welch worked with this sister site of renowned Elephant Mountain Vineyard to produce a scintillating wine resulting from his first bottling of Sauvignon Blanc. He used one ferment to showcase fruity notes, another to preserve the grape's natural...
Red Mountain pioneer Jim Holmes reached into California's famed Tablas Creek for the Counoise that he established in 2000 among his 35 blocks at Ciel du Cheval Vineyard, and historic producers such as Ron Coleman (Tamarack Cellars) and Doug McCrea soon began...
A mashup of the reasons that prompted Chad Steiner and his winemaking wife, Jeana, to raise their family near Lake Chelan — lake, agritourism and growth — led to the name and launch of Lagriōth Winery in Manson, Wash. The first commercial bottling they released...
The Evans family established their 10-acre vineyard in 2001, and they added Viognier a decade later to their site overlooking the south shore of Lake Chelan. That same year, they attracted Cornell-trained winemaker Michelle Fanton, and the Seattle native kept the...
Founding winemaker Casey McClellan and his heir apparent, Bobby Richards, combined for a handful of vineyard-designated Cabernet Sauvignon bottlings, and this marked their fifth vintage working together at Seven Hills. However, it was 30th expression of Cab from...
