3100 Cellars winemaker Hailey Minder, and her husband, Marshall, own and operate Idaho's only program dedicated to sparkling wine. Their 2017 Whitewater sparkling wine was voted the best wine of the 2022 Cascadia International Wine Competition. (Photo courtesy of...
Founding winemaker Rob Griffin and his winemaking daughter, Megan Hughes, teamed up to produce the Barnard Griffin Winery 2021 Rosé of Sangiovese that was voted as the best rosé of 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. (Richard Duval Images) CLOVERDALE,...
Amy Prosenjak is the CEO of A to Z Wineworks, a Certified B Corp., in Newberg, Ore., and the state's the top-selling wine brand. (Photo courtesy of A to Z Wineworks) Amy Prosenjak was at a leadership seminar in 2018 when someone asked her to write down the No. 1...
In 1995, Paul Golitzin took over the winemaking at historic Quilceda Creek Winery in Snohomish, Wash. Seven vintages later, he crushed the grapes for the state's first 100-point wine. (Photo courtesy of Quilceda Creek Winery) In 1998, the difference in the...
The Abeja winemaking tandem of Amy Alvarez-Wampfler, and her husband, Daniel Wampfler produced the top entry in Great Northwest Wine's 2022 comparative tasting of Merlot. (Richard Duval Images) It’s rare for a wine writer to receive gratitude for conducting a...
Samantha Mallery, enologist for Owen Roe and a winery technology student at Yakima Valley College, stands in front of YVC’s new satellite tasting room on its Yakima campus with nine of the Platinum Award-winning wines crafted by students at the Yakima Valley...
Western U.S. temperature departures from normal (left) and percent of normal precipitation (Image by WestWide Drought Tracker, Western Region Climate Center; University of Idaho / Courtesy of ClimateOfWine.com) For those in the Pacific Northwest who believed the...
Richard Batchelor used seven Platinum Awards in 2021 to lift Maryhill Winery into the overall lead with 95 Platinums. (Photo courtesy of Maryhill Winery) KENNEWICK, Wash. — Maryhill Winery in Goldendale, Wash., moved atop the all-time leaderboard for the Platinum...
Kieran Murry and his wife, Sherri, enjoy an outdoor tasting at Saviah Cellars in Walla Walla, Wash. The Murrys launched the Facebook page "Let's Talk About Northwest Wines" on Aug. 1, 2020, and it has grown to more than 12,200 followers. One of the myths of...
Andy Perdue, co-founder of Great Northwest Wine LLC, has moved his regular Wine Knows column to the pages of Great Northwest Wine magazine and its digital home of GreatNorthwestWine.com. (Photo by Eric Degerman/Great Northwest Wine) With the inaugural issue of...
