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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: http://www.hoguecellars.com For many Washington State wine lovers, we have a certain fondness for Hogue as it was one of the first “gateway” wines for a great deal of us. It wasn’t “Chateau Ste. Michelle”, it was “cool” because it was based out of Prosser and seemed to have a good [...]

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This is a popular white wine for Bookwalter wines – it combines a little Rhone with Burgundy in this Chardonnay meets Vionier blend which has enough residual sugar on it to make it a rather nice “patio wine”. I know of purists out there who scoff at the idea of blending these two grapes but [...]

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By Duane Pemberton Winery website: https://damawines.com DaMa Wines, located in Walla Walla Washington, combines the efforts of Dawn Kammer and  Mary Derby who have done a great job of turning this relatively new winery into quite the buzz. This chardonnay, sourced from the Columbia Valley is a solid one that’ll do proud many lighter-fare dishes. [...]

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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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Northwest Cellars was founded by Bob Delf in 2004 with a vision of producing quality wines with customizable labels, made to the customer’s choosing. It works with top vineyard sites throughout the Columbia Valley and in this review we take a look at their red and white blend. 2008 Adajio – W.E.P. Rating: 88% Technical [...]

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Prosser Washington is in the heart of the famed Columbia Valley appellation and started off as a farming community. That spirit of farming the fertile soils over that area live on in the likes of the Olsen Family who now have their own estate winery. What really makes wines shine, from any region, is when [...]

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Winery website: www.boudreauxcellars.com W.E.P. Rating: 90% Just like Country music – Chardonnay has a bad rep and we can primarily thank the folks in California who have historicaly over-oaked it to death. Big players like Kendall-Jackson, Mondavi and other “grocery-store” labels have catered to an American palate which thinks it likes enough butter in its Chardonnay [...]

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Winery Website: www.noveltyhillwines.com For the past few years now, lots of washingtonians have been super excited about what’s been going on at Woodinville-based Novelty Hill Winery – it’s winemaker, Mike Januik is one of the state’s superstars and rightly so. His wines have a stellar track-record of kicking ass and taking names – he is [...]

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Winery Link Columbia Crest is – by many accounts – a tour de’ force of winemaking when it comes to tier-1 wineries who produce huge volumes and still keep snagging winning scores with wreckless abandon as if there’s no tomorrow. It’s “yoda-like” winemaker, Ray Einberger, is a genius when it comes to proven know-how of [...]

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When I first tried wines from Forgeron a few years ago at a public tasting at Esquin Wine Merchants in Seattle, I knew at the time this was a winery which was on to something good. I can recall how much I especially enjoyed their “Red Table Wine” (now called Walldeaux Smithie Red) and found [...]

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There was a time not too many years ago when I (like many of you) had a slogan of “A.B.C.” – anything but chard – and we can largely thank the state of California and its parade of over-oaked fanboys for that. chardonnay is a gorgeous grape which has been a staple around the world [...]

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One of Washington State’s premier wineries is Maryhill Winery, located in Goldendale WA, just north of the Columbia River. It’s built on a hillside which yields incredible vistas of the gorge and surrounding areas and even features its own outdoor amphitheater. At near 70,000 case of wine each year, Maryhill isn’t exactly a small winery [...]

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