By Aakanksha Agarwal
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…
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Pink Bubbles for Mum
Let us be clear here — Mama deserves (and needs) a drink and she can drink whatever she wants. Mama wants a glass of Cab Franc? Great. Mama desires a…
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April Showers Bring Spring Sours
Seasonal change can catch you by surprise. Some years it creeps in slowly and quietly until the day you happen to turn around and notice that Hey, Summer is here….
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The Ultimate Guide to the Royal Slope AVA
Not even a pandemic can pause the progress of wine. Just last September, the Royal Slope joined the ranks of Washington State’s American Viticultural Areas as the 15th wine-growing appellation….
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4 Questions with Ben Casteel, Winemaker and Co-owner at Bethel Heights Vineyard
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…
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5 Pairings to Prove Vegetables Go with Wine
Spring has sprung, y’all. Plant them flowers, get your seeds in the ground … maybe take an easier route with some starts for peas or carrots. Now is the time…
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Idaho Suds (Not Spuds) with a Side of Sunshine.
April is Idaho Craft Beer Month. So is every month, frankly. But since someone bothered to make it official, it’s important to honor that effort and grab a beer. With…
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Vermouth 101: Northwest Producers Serve Vermouth with a Twist
The word vermouth probably comes from German, wermut. The bottle vermouth, for so many, probably comes from the dark reaches of the liquor cabinet – half consumed and long ignored….
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4 Questions with Sadie Drury of North Slope Management
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…
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Guide to Translating Wine Tasting Notes: Part 2
Baking spices, minerality, spicy earth, fruity, floral … big deal! You’ve progressed past the elementary parlance of winespeak and are ready for the next level of this guide to translating…
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