The Great Northwest Wine team runs a number of Pacific Northwest wine competitions, both for ourselves as well as organizations and publications. They include: Great Northwest Wine quarterly ...

Great Northwest Wine conducts a one-of-a-kind wine competition each October. It’s called The Great Northwest Invitational Wine Competition, and the 12th annual judging will be staged Oct. 1-2-3, 2024 ...

Ellen is a certified sommelier, wine writer, wine educator, wine event moderator and sought-after judge at prominent regional, national and international wine competitions. Ellen and her husband, chef ...

If you were offered a glass of Baco Noir or a crisp Seyval Blanc with your dinner, would you know what was being poured? An estimated 20% of wine grapes in North America are hybrids, traditionally ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Hoke Harden left a career in academia to follow his muse for the past 40 years, traveling the world to see and taste the great wine-producing regions. The Portland resident has ...

The 2024 Cascadia International Wine Competition was staged May 7-9 at the Clover Island Inn overlooking the Columbia River in Kennewick Wash. For its first three years, the Cascadia was known as the ...

OLIVER, British Columbia — No one has shined more brilliantly more often with white wine throughout the 24-year history of the Platinum Awards than Gehringer Brothers Estate Winery in the Okanagan ...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. — This spring, the Walla Walla Valley transformed into a Mecca for wine enthusiasts from all points of the globe for Hospice du Rhône — a celebration surrounding the 22 varieties ...

On our continent, Pinot Blanc has a presence in California, Michigan, New York and the Pacific Northwest. Thirty years ago, it was rather prolific in the Golden State, with the University of ...

Ohio native Stephanie Cohen made wine in California, New Zealand, Australia and Oregon prior to moving to Washington state in 2019 for a job at Columbia Crest. She transferred to Red Mountain a year ...

Richard Henry “Dick” Shaw, who felt most comfortable in the boardroom or riding in a farm truck, was behind some of Washington’s top-scoring wines and its best values with his 3,500 acres of vineyards ...

Editor’s note: Turning the Tables is an ongoing series of wine writer Q & A interviews conducted by Carl Giavanti, a longtime wine industry advocate based in Portland. We asked him to begin his ...