Fall 2017
72 hours in the Columbia River Gorge
The Columbia River Gorge has long been a favorite Northwest destination. With Mount Adams looming in the north, and picture-perfect Mount Hood to the south, a trip through the gorge among the prettiest drives in the United States.
Fall 2017
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FALL 2017
Tasting Results: Italian reds show growing potential in Pacific Northwest
Paul Beveridge has been an important figure in the Washington wine industry for nearly 30 years. He operates the longest-running winery in Seattle, established the state’s second biodynamic vineyard and occasionally applies his law degree from Columbia University to help modernize the regulations...
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PAIRINGS
Match Makers: Mystic Café casts spotlight on Lewis-Clark Valley wine industry
LEWISTON, Idaho — Were it not for Prohibition, the blended river community of Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Wash., would be well beyond its folksy status as “an emerging wine region.”
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FALL 2017
Ghost Hill Cellars, a Bayliss family legacy
Bayliss-Bower Vineyard sits on 234 undulating acres in of the Yamhill-Carlton American Viticultural Area, one of Oregon's most celebrated AVAs. On a hill that wasn’t good for much else, 16 acres of vines bear fruit for Ghost Hill Cellars’ all-estate Pinot Noir program. It is a testament...
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FALL 2017
Walla Walla wineries open Seattle tasting rooms
At first glance, the cities of Seattle and Walla Walla would appear to have little in common: an urban, metropolitan hub of 3.7 million versus a small town of 32,000; home to techies, high-rises and heavy traffic versus an isolated, rural community surrounded by onions, grapes and all things agricultural...
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ANDY PERDUE
The next Hood River?
A decade or so ago, I was chatting with some winemakers about where "the next Woodinville" would be.
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KEN ROBERTSON
Grapes of Italy get little respect
The Romans may be due the credit for spreading the gospel of the grape throughout the known world — or at least throughout their empire and beyond — but the more than 2,000 individual varieties of grapes grown in Italy get little notice in the Pacific Northwest.
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DAN BERGER
Which came first, the tomato or the Barbera?
The familiar cliché about chickens and eggs could well be replaced: Which came first, the tomato or the Barbera?
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COKE ROTH
My take on the dilemma of wine and food pairing
Ahhhh, the grandeur of being a wine columnist, to write my completely biased opinion based, not on fact, but based on my opinion of the facts. This fashionable way of journalism, of course, presumes that the opinionated facts upon which I base my opinion are somewhat true — a real stretch in...
