Best Buy! While it comes from the same house with roots in the Horse Heaven Hills and White Bluffs, it would be misnomer to view this bottling as declassified Poet's Leap. Gilles Nicault and his team approach this Riesling project as a bit less dry, and it's...
Best Buy! A longtime member of the team at Waterbrook in Walla Walla, Cesar Cuellar's responsibilities for Precept Wine include overseeing the winemaking for this consumer-focused label with a lineage that began in 1984 and includes Staton Hills in the Yakima...
Best Buy! The Miller family has 830 acres of estate fruit along the Roza in Washington's Yakima Valley, making it one of the largest vineyards in the Pacific Northwest and the source for some of the region's most deliciously price wines available. While their...
Best Buy! The Miller family and their winemaker, Travis Maple, employ a yeast strain derived from Sauvignon Blanc berries in New Zealand to ferment these Airfield Ranch grapes over the course of four weeks at a temperature in the low 60s. Maple's team then aged the...
Best Buy! For the second straight vintage, John Freeman's team in Walla Walla has earned our top rating for this incredibly priced Syrah from Mirage Vineyard (52%) along the Columbia River north of Pasco, Wash., and famed Klipsun Vineyard (34%) on Red Mountain and...
One of the wines that Sarah Cabot, Precept's winemaker in the Willamette Valley, takes the most pride in is her entry-level Unconditional Pinot Noir. Traditionally, she pulls it significantly from Battle Creek Vineyard. This time, it accounted for 25% of the blend,...
Best Buy! Craig and Vicki Leuthold have made Maryhill Winery one of Washington’s best-known and most consistently delicious brands, and their flagship Chardonnay under their "Classic" tier illustrates why. Once again, winemaker Richard Batchelor — a three-time...
Best Buy! Precept continues to prove that it can deliver at any price point, and this work with Cabernet Sauvignon from John Freeman's team in the Walla Walla Valley can be valued for a variety of reasons. Here's another understated work with a Bordeaux red that...
Best Buy! Those who appreciate an "Old World" approach to Pinot Noir will enjoy a variety of aspects to this bargain by most standards, particularly when priced alongside its Willamette Valley peers. Red Hill Vineyard, established on a large scale in 1991 by the...
Best Buy! Year after year, judges hang gold medals on Jeremy Ritter's honey-based wines as he furthers the delicious history of this family-owned winery that began in the Idaho Panhandle in 1983. In the winter of 2015, Ritter production from Moscow to the town of...
