August, being Washington Wine Month, gives us a special excuse to clink our glasses to local wine. To be honest, we’d happily sip Washington wine all year long. Drinking local wine in August is nothing short of sublime. For starters, there is plenty of sunshine, it...
A Lavish Cab Sauv Direct from the Horse Heaven Hills When Jeff Andrews, proprietor and fourth-generation farmer at Andrews Family Vineyards reached out to winemaker Ray McKee to float the idea of making the finest expression of Cabernet Sauvignon from his best...
Locust Cider’s 16 taprooms across the U.S. have become a unique laboratory for its innovative ciders Locust Cider is a wonderful modern cidery based in Gig Harbor, Wash., with a nationwide presence and run by brothers Jason and Patrick Spears which traces its...
Native Flora is an extremely exclusive and eclectic winery nestled up high in Willamette Valley’s glorious Dundee Hills. Owners, business partners and husband-and-wife duo, Scott and Denise Flora follow a heuristic approach to grape growing and winemaking. The work...
Celebrate Oregon Wine Month with 12 Stunning Wines What could we say about Oregon wine that we haven’t said already? We could wax eloquent about the special terroir, the cool-climate conducive to growing wine grapes or the talented winemakers who have a ...
At RAM cellars, the owner-winemaker Vivianne Kennedy is wonderfully designated as the “Maven of Mirth + Darling of Delight.” Kennedy, with all her fiery passion and zest for life, is all of that and so much more. While still working as an assistant winemaker in...
Second-Generation Winemaker Megan Hughes of Barnard Griffin Megan Hughes was raised in the heart of Washington Wine Country, and saw her parents Rob Griffin and Deborah Barnard run Barnard Griffin, one of the state’s oldest family-owned vineyards. She saw them go...
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” — Katharine Hepburn This is certainly true when it comes to rules of the wine world. Drink pink only when the weather is warm, never put ice in your wine, decant only reds, no white wines with gamey meat — we could...
Remy Drabkin of Remy Wines has been stirring up a wine revolution in Oregon’s Willamette Valley for the last 15 years. In those years, Remy has carved a niche for herself by bottling gorgeous Italian-style wines that have an unmistakable Pacific Northwest...
Laurent Montalieu was born in Germany and moved to the postcard-perfect Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe when he was 1 year old. After spending his formative years there, he headed to Bordeaux to study when he turned 16. There, his great grandfather owned a vineyard...
