Braiden Rex-Johnson
Wine tasting at your local farmers market
Here’s hoping that by the time you read this article, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee will have signed into law Senate Bill 5674, which allows wine and beer tasting at local farmers markets.
Braiden Rex-Johnson
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SPRING 2013
Wine at the airport
TSA body scanners, overcrowded flights, unruly passengers and lost luggage could drive any adult airline passenger to drink.
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WINTER 2012
Unique gifts for Northwest wine lovers
Wondering what to get the Northwest wine lover on your list?
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FALL 2012
Tasting Tulalip
I don't normally associate outstanding food and wine events with Northwest casinos.
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BRAIDEN REX-JOHNSON
Alaska cruise a culinary adventure
Over the past 22 years that my husband and I have lived in downtown Seattle, we've watched with a sense of wonder as the number of tall buildings, downtown residents and restaurants and nightlife opportunities has increased exponentially.
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BRAIDEN REX-JOHNSON
Burgundy sets route through Seattle
Many restaurants in the Pacific Northwest tout their lengthy wine lists and crow about their food-and-wine-pairing prowess. But few make the wining and dining experience as memorable and full of joie de vivre as RN74, which opened last June in downtown Seattle.
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BRAIDEN REX-JOHNSON
Oils make most out of wine grapes
As those of us who dutifully recycle our wine bottles, compost our kitchen scraps and drive fuel-efficient cars well know, it's not easy being green.
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BRAIDEN REX-JOHNSON
Pacific Coast's best oyster wines
Wine Press Northwest columnist Braiden Rex-Johnson participates in the Pacific Coast Oyster Wine Competition in Seattle.
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SPRING 2011
Wine country comes to the big city
Terry Thompson is such an ardent fan of Washington wines and winemakers that he sold his successful commercial interiors business in 2009, enlisted his entire family and a "dream team" of industry professionals and spent over a year creating URBAN enoteca (Ue), a warm and welcoming "wine center" ...
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BRAIDEN REX-JOHNSON
Great grape escape to Vancouver Island
"They look happy," the woman seated behind me on the Victoria Clipper exclaimed as two super pods of orca whales danced port, starboard and forward of the high-speed catamaran as we crossed from American into Canadian waters.
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SPRING 2010
Sumptuous, sublime spring
Spring brings a sublime selection of fresh foods to Northwest kitchens: baby greens, peas and herbs; new-laid eggs and grass-fed lamb; and the first catches of salmon and halibut.
