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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: www.snoqualmie.com/ Washington State does a bang-up job offering mouthwatering Syrah – and a lot of them are really good values like this 2006 from Snoqualmie. Joy Anderson has a good track record of making insanely good wines for relatively low prices and this wine is no different. Technical Data: Acidity: 0.61 [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: www.jonesofwashington.com The Jones family is one of the most pervasive produce-growing families in the State of Washington and like many who started off growing things like potatoes, grains and forages – figured it’d be good to use some of their resources (land) to get some grapes going and start a [...]

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For anyone who follows the Washington State wine scene, it’s hard to not know about John Bookwalter. His family has played a part of the success of the wine industry here and his passion not only leads him to make good wine but to also serve on the Washington Wine Commission on the board of [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: http://www.eroicawine.com Chateau Saint Michelle produces more riesling than any other single producer and a part of its program for this wonderful varietal is the Eroica program. It’s a label that produces rieslings with an old-meets-new world approach. This particular single berry select harnesses the know how of the famous Dr. [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: http://www.trevericellars.com/ Having your wines served at the White House is a great honor for any winery, especially one that’s relatively still a baby. Terveri Cellars, located in Yakima Washington, was fortunate enough to have its winery visited last year by one of the chefs of Hillary Clinton who enjoyed their [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: www.longshadows.com This “Super-Tuscan” style wine from Long Shadows is made with help from one of Tuscany’s most famous producers, Ambrogio and Giovanni Folonari. It’s constantly been a “crowd-favorite” at wine events and does a good job of showing that Washington State can produce good, “Italian-style” wines from the New World. [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Winery website:  http://www.betzfamilywinery.com Bob Betz could very well be the most respected winemaker in the state of Washington – his legacy as a Master of Wine and the accolades his winery continues to garner is amazing. But what makes Bob’s story rather unique in an industry full of self-aggrandizing-types is his utter [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: http://www.vapianovineyards.com Justin Wylie’s passion for quality wine continues to come through in this 2008 release of his Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. It’s composition 100% cab and that’s not a common thing to find any more as most “cabs” are actually blended with another grape. Pulling grapes from the greater Columbia [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: http://www.saviahcellars.com A lot of wineries have figured out that in order to grow revenue, coming up with a quality second-label at the sub-$20 price-point is a great idea. Even though Saviah has been lavished in praised by both fans and crititcs, owner/winemaker, Richard Funk launched the “Jack” line of second-label [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: http://www.baselcellars.com/ Even though Merlot may have gone out of vogue with some wine drinkers, it’s still very much at the forefront of many of us who have not lost our love for this illustrious grape. Justin Basel produced this Merlot and has a lot of reasons to be proud of it. [...]

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