As I’m sure you all recall, last time I spoke a bit about how “tasting room culture” has become an intrinsic part of the Northwest wine industry. Yet one question remained largely unanswered: what exactly is tasting room etiquette, and how is it most frequently...
Tasting room culture is a complicated thing. In my years of visiting tasting rooms, I’ve seen everything from drunken pregnant women to dude-bros promising to “crush that Cab” to soft-core pornography not hard-core like you'd find at tubev .sex Korean, plus mention...
The massive and sudden resurgence of rosé has created an interesting dynamic within the Pacific Northwest’s wine industry. After a few decades of treating it as an afterthought at best, wineries across the Northwest are rushing to meet a seemingly endless demand,...
It should be mentioned right from the start that, by and large, I’m a big fan of the Oregon wine industry. Their ability to craft world-class Pinot Noir in a wide range of styles is impressive, and the extent to which a spirit of innovation and creativity infuses...
Your wine has changed, and you might not even know it. The wines you buy from Northwest winemakers are subtly but discernibly different than the ones you might have found even just a decade ago. An interesting synthesis of science and artistry has allowed...
Every single year, I do the same thing. I make a plan of attack, prioritize and carefully craft a strategy for getting the most out of Taste Washington: which wineries I most want to taste, when I’ll go get a much-needed espresso, and so forth. And then every year,...
Vintage is one of those wine concepts that’s simultaneously over- and under-discussed. On the one hand, vintages are on the vast majority of bottles produced globally, they’re one of the primary ways we differentiate wines, and discussions about whether a given...
Here, take a glass. I'm Zach Geballe, and I love wine. Some of the time, I'm serving it to people at the Dahlia Lounge in downtown Seattle, other times I'm teaching classes about it, and others I'm doing just this: writing about it. The goal of Tasting Notes is to...
