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  • Dealing with fire
    Friday June 27 2008

    As many of you have read in recent days, wildfires in Northern California have threatened vineyards and wineries. Wildfires are nothing new in Washington wine country, where the arid climes of the Columbia Valley create conditions that set off blazes annually, usually in August. It's something we've learned to live with.

As Washington’s Yakima Valley begins its third decade as the Northwest’s oldest federally recognized grape-growing region, it is being energized by growth it hasn’t seen since its origins in the mid-’80s.

Extreme temperatures can mean devastation to Washington wine grape growers

Washington grape growers and winemakers don’t like to think about it, but they can feel it lurking out there in the darkness of winter.

Preston Premium Wines turns 25

It was a nostalgic trip down wine-tasting lane in September at a 25th anniversary celebration at Preston Premium Wines.

Washington's Olympic Peninsula and surrounding islands are more than just pretty faces of spectacular mountain scenery in a flowing gown of marine passageways, bays and inlets.

Whidbey Island Vineyards & Winery is one of a growing number of Western Washington wineries to specialize in estate-grown grapes.