The Washington food and beverage industry, and the craft beverage world lost one of its luminaries recently – Samuel David Desner, of Salish Sea Organic Liqueurs, succumbed to seizure complications. As we step into the golden days of summer, we’d like to take...
Think Oregon wine, and it’s impossible to not think of Pinot Noir – the black-skinned, temperamental grape known for the diaphanous, earthy red wines made from it. Oregon is rightly the land of Pinot Noir, but there are so many more amazing varietals thriving in...
May brings clear spring skies and blooming wildflowers. Need another reason to love May? It’s also Oregon Wine Month, a time to sip and celebrate incredible wine. The one thing that really stands out in the Oregon wine industry (besides delicious wine, of course!)...
There’s nothing but sunshine on our minds. We’re pretty stoked about sun-drenched adventures in the days ahead, and all the spritzy, delicious cider we’ll drink while doing so. While there’s nothing quite like cracking open a chilled cider in the backyard –...
While we cooked feverishly in the early days of quarantine, we miss dining out more than ever before – the dressing up, scintillating conversations with friends, ordering family-style dishes and sharing fine wine. Another thing we’ve really missed about eating out...
If you’d ask Ben Casteel the clichéd-but-revelatory question of how he got into wine, his easy answer would be that he was born into it. His long answer? “I had always viewed winemaking as ‘my Dad’s job’ and had never considered it a possibility for my...
When Washington Winegrowers felicitated Sadie Drury for the prestigious Grower of the Year Award, there were few people as surprised as Drury herself by the well-deserved accolade. She is not only the second woman since 1989, but also the youngest person to be so...
Sangiovese, a quintessentially Italian grape, evokes so many more images than just Chianti, the delicious cherry-hued Tuscan wine for which it is best known. One could even say that it is symbolic of the good Italian life. Think Sangiovese, and rows of manicured...
