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New Releases from Washington: A Bonanza for Consumers
United States: Washington, featured
, Dec 2019
A trio of superb vintages and a glut of grapes have combined to give wine lovers the best chance yet to enjoy outstanding values from Washington.
Focus on Washington: The New Normal
United States: Washington, featured
, Nov 2018
Washington has experienced an unbroken succession of six very warm to hot years, but by now the state’s most serious growers and winemakers have proven that they can stand the heat. While there are underperformers in Washington, at the level of the better wineries quality has never been higher than it is today.
Washington: Various Shades of Hot
United States: Washington, featured
, Oct 2017
Washington’s recent streak of hot years has yielded an unprecedented number of outstanding wines. But each of these vintages has come with its own set of challenges.
Cayuse Vineyards’ Syrah Bionic Frog: 2000 – 2014
United States: Washington, featured, Verticals & Retrospectives
, Oct 2017
Christophe Baron’s adventures in Walla Walla Valley quickly bore fruit. Since the turn of the new century his wines — especially his Syrahs — have consistently stood out from the crowd in Washington State. Baron’s Bionic Frog bottling is the best of them, as a comprehensive recent vertical tasting made clear.
Focus on Washington: Hot Times in the Desert
United States: Washington, featured
, Nov 2016
The recent string of extra-hot years has forced Washington State’s growers and winemakers to respond proactively to extreme conditions. But the most successful players have been able to harvest strong raw materials and produce seriously rich, balanced wines.
2007 Long Shadows Vintners Collection Poet’s Leap Riesling
United States: Washington, Cellar Favorites
, Jul 2016
The Poet’s Leap Riesling, the only white wine made under the Long Shadows umbrella, has been an unfailing crowd pleaser—not to mention remarkably consistent in quality—since its first vintage in 2003.
Washington Turns Up the Heat
United States: Washington, featured
, Nov 2015
Two thousand twelve brought a return to normal—not too hot, not too cold . . . just right. This “perfectly average vintage,” as a number of growers described it, was also Washington’s easiest in many years, both in the vineyards and in the wineries.
New Releases from Washington State
United States: Washington, featured
, Dec 2014
The more I taste the better 2011 red wines from Washington State, the more excited I become about this vintage—and the more I wonder whether the warmest areas within the Columbia Valley’s high desert are just too hot in some years to make elegant, naturally balanced wines.
The Best New Wines from Washington State
IWC, United States: Washington
, Nov 2013
Wine lovers who stopped following Washington's wines may hardly recognize what the state is up to these days
New Releases from Washington State
IWC, United States: Washington
, Nov 2012
If Washington State's top producers are indeed aiming to make wines of greater finesse, as is the trend nowadays across much of the New World, their efforts have been facilitated by a pair of back-to-back cooler growing seasons in 2010 and 2011