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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, Verticals & Retrospectives, featured
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
Top New Releases from Washington State
IWC, United States: Washington
Nov 2011
,If you're an inveterate Francophile when it comes to structured red wines and have always been skeptical of those upstarts in Washington State, the 2008 vintage offers a perfect opportunity to give these wines a shot
New Releases from Washington State
IWC, United States: Washington
Nov 2010
,As 2007 by now has gained a reputation as one of Washington’s most outstanding and complete vintages of the past generation, this vintage from the state’s better producers has sold well, even in this moribund economy.