If you’ve ever been along lucky enough to visit Sonoma you will find the most beautiful vineyards in the world. Many of them nestled among ...

I love the John Denver song that went “Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy, Sunshine In my eyes makes me cry….”. I was singing it this ...

I’m not sure what took hold of me the other day. Maybe it was the lack of heat in this cold, wet spring. Possibly it was the mountain of w...

A few weeks ago I attended an open house and trade tasting event in Pendleton. The winery doing the tasting was the team from Columbia Cres...

Last week I shared that I made my way down the Gorge to Portland for a conference and made a few stops along the way to see vintners that I ...

So, today I get an excited call from Dane, the owner of the Grocery Outlet store in Kennewick. He's got some new wines he wants me to t...

Last week was my birthday. Don’t worry if you missed it. I try to miss it every year but it catches up to me no matter where I run. Anyway...

I’ve decided that just about anything can either cure you or kill you in certain amounts. Valentines Day is one of those annual celebration...

It’s not what you think. I’m really not going to pitch you on drinking wine made out of turkey. I would never suggest you drink a wine mad...

As a wine writer at a small Northeast Oregon newspaper I figure that I have “arrived”. No, it’s not that I’m something spectacular, or that...

Lately it seems like nary a week goes by that I am caught in a conversation about two different Northwest wines gaining a lot of steam. The...