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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: http://www.watermillwinery.com/ The Brown family got it start in the apple business and several years ago started venturing in wine. Its first couple of vintages were made by Richard Funk of Saviah Cellars and that got them off to a great start. Andrew Brown is now the winemaker and from my initial [...]

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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.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: www.snoqualmie.com  Joy Anderson is one of the State of Washington’s most under rated winemakers. Her wines constantly win critical acclaim and have a loyal fan base of people who appreciate good quality to price ratio. The Reserve wines are priced at $20, have good availability and generally very solid wines [...]

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Substance winery, located in Walla Walla, is a relatively new brand to the Washington wine scene and has been doing a pretty decent job of getting itself marketed in a viral sort of way. Through both social media, blogs and event pourings, this brand has created a nice little identity for itself. Many of us [...]

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John Bookwalter has established a really good name for himself as one of Washington State’s premier winemakers – scoring award after award. His wines are highly sought after and his Richland tasting room is packed out most nights of the week. John has long-standing contracts with some of the best vineyard sites in the Columbia [...]

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The 2005 Columbia Crest Cab won the number one spot in Wine Spectator’s top-100 wines of the world list a few months ago and it created quite a controversy. While many people I know think Columbia Crest produces a solid wine that are usually well-priced, most of them had a difficult time understanding how it [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Bart Fawbush is a man on a mission who’s armed with a little bit of know-how, some good industry contacts and a ton of passion. His Freshman release of wines is made with the help of an industry colleague but it’s to the style and preferences of Bart. In fact, the way [...]

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