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Mike Andrews of Coyote Canyon Winery and Vineyard Want to meet one of the people behind our featured winery for August? Mike Andrews, co-owner and vineyard manager of Coyote Canyon Vineyard’s 1,100 plus acres of premium wine grapes is visiting Seat (read full article)
Every Wednesday, Black Raven Brewery taps a special cask at 4pm. These casks are often extremely popular and you are well advised to get there early to make sure to get some before the cask runs dry. On August 4th, the featured cask was the “Sc (read full article)
When you tell a guy that there are flowers in his beer, you get “THE LOOK“. At the Rails to Ales Brewfest, I watched them line up to the Snipes Mountain Brewery table and give the pourer the look when they hear Lavender Wheat is on tap. Y (read full article)
Bottling at Woodhouse Family Cellars is something I help out with every once in a while and it has its benefits. When Bean found out I was volunteering at Woodhouse Family Cellars she said that I must get my hands on some of their Kennedy Shah Reserv (read full article)
Named in honor of the Wagoner daughters, Icicle Ridge Winery The Blondes Gewürztraminer is a summer time staple at our house. The 2009 vintage is very pale in color, much like a blonde - summer bleached by the sun. The nose is a fragrant bouq (read full article)
The Seattle Wine Awards Grand Tasting is the penultimate event of the year to enjoy and celebrate our state’s spectacular and growing wine industry. This was an opportunity to taste the new releases of my favorite wineries as well a chance to (read full article)
Hales Ales Bucephalus Blended Sour is one very thick cloudy brew. I mean brew as in a witches’ brew as much as a beer brew. It looks a bit sinister and dangerous. This is a beer for the courageous. Bucephalus Blended Sour I have had Hales Ale B (read full article)
Last Sunday we tried Three Rivers Winery 2007 Late Harvest Gewurztraminer after an Italian family dinner. Three Rivers Winery is located in Walla Walla and the grapes for this vintage came from Biscuit Ridge Vineyards. This Washington dessert wine (read full article)
Kung Fu Girl Riesling and Curried Quinoa Salad On April 28, we opened a bottle of 2009 Kung Fu Girl Riesling and participated in the virtual tasting hosted by Sean Sullivan of the Washington Wine Report. Sean hosts these tastings monthly, selecting (read full article)
The Icicle Ridge 2007 Ice Wine Chardonnay is a deep golden straw colored wine. The nose of this dessert wine is intensely aromatic with deep caramel, freshly cracked walnuts, brandied pears, cinnamon on the nose. The flavors start on the palate with (read full article)
Siegerrebe is a cool climate hybrid wine grape variety of Madeline Angevine and Gewürztraminer. This spicy grape is grown in the colder regions of our state such as the Puget Sound AVA. We can thank Bainbridge Island Vineyard and Winery for bring (read full article)
Barnard Griffin Zinfandel with Dinner When Roger and I took our road trip to the Tri Cities Wine Festival, we made a couple of stops along the way. At wineries. One of which was Barnard Griffin, in Richland, Washington. Not many wineries in Washingto (read full article)
Boomtown Pinot Gris The lineup of Dusted Valley Boomtown wines is among my favorite wine values. In fact, Wine and Spirits recently recognized the Boomtown line as one of the top global value brands. Why? At $10-15 a bottle, these wines are truly a (read full article)
Sheridan Cabernet Franc I can still remember the first time I tasted Sheridan Vineyard Cabernet Franc. It was July of 2005. A coworker had brought the bottle of Cabernet Franc to a party. The fruit forward style of this Washington wine resonated with (read full article)
I was coerced into this post about Epic Ale’s Otto Optimizer by Bean. “If you drink it…you write it….NOW!” Well, those were not her exact words but… thats why we call her the boss. It was well worth the sacrifice (read full article)
Black Raven Brewing brewed an IPA to celebrate Brouwer’s Cafe 5th Anniversary. This anniversary ale is a pale golden opague brew. Fruity aromas of pineapple, citrus and grapefruit greet you. This Washington beer starts smooth before bitter (read full article)
The Saint Laurent 2006 Syrah from Saint Laurent Estate Winery, in Malaga, WA, was a beautiful dark, slightly inky red, clear, and consistent in color. Lifting out of the glass were berries, bright berries not jammy berries, with hints of earthy spi (read full article)
We recently had the good fortune to taste a lineup of wines from Saint Laurent Estate Winery during a dinner with Bean and other friends. This took me and the hubby back to our visit to the winery this summer during a road trip that took us from Win (read full article)
The hard working folks at Dusted Valley Vintners have been bestowed the honor of “Washington Winery of the Year” by Wine Press Northwest. Doesn’t it make you feel great when nice people who consistently produce great product receive well deserv (read full article)
The fruit for this dark ruby wine from Saint Laurent Estate Winery comes from Wahluke Slope A.V.A, one of Washington’s warmest growing regions. This A.V.A. is also characterized by fertile soil created by ancient lava flows and glacier floods. Home (read full article)
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