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Paul Gregutt

Paul Gregutt has been reviewing the wines and wineries of the Pacific Northwest since the mid-1980s. Career highlights include serving as the wine columnist for the Seattle Times (2002 – 2013) and Contributing Editor for Wine Enthusiast magazine (1998 – 2022). He lives with his wife Karen and his rescue dog Cookie in Waitsburg (pop. 1204), a Walla Walla County farm community. When not tasting and writing about wine he writes songs, plays guitar and sings in his band the DavePaul5 (davepaul5.com). Follow his writing here and at www.paulgregutt.substack.com.
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Letter from a Small Town: A Better way of Living. A Better way of Tasting Wine

Twenty years ago my wife and I made a small investment in a big change. Almost on a whim we purchased a rundown cottage in a wheat farming town...
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Earth-Friendly Viticulture: Meet Rule-Breaker Jessica Cortell

My own experience and firm belief in the value of earth-friendly viticulture (my term) means I need no persuasion that these great wines are easily traced back to great vineyard management.
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Setting Expectations: Wines of Context

A good beginning to a new year is what I will call ‘setting the table’ – clarifying expectations, resolutions and procedures. I want to post a quick guide to...
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2024 in Wine

From a Big Picture point of view, saying goodbye to 2024 seems more like good riddance. But for those of us who still enjoy wine, who believe that wine is a unique, life-affirming, earth-friendly, social enhancing asset to any creative lifestyle, it would be good to step away from the Neo-Pro noise and give 2024 a more personal evaluation.
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Gregutt’s 2024 PNW Highlights: Wines, Grapes & Wineries

My focus is on giving every wine I taste a good, long, repeated look – not piling up big numbers by zipping through dozens of wines at a time.
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Report on Wine: Nick Kristof’s Vineyards

To the extent my reporting career has focused on people left behind and the need to create new industries that nurture jobs and opportunities in rural America, our tiny little operation is meant to be an example of that.”
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Pointless? Why Does the Wine Rating System Still Hang On?

Our lives are run by computer technology. Along with the ubiquitous presence of smartphones, smart watches, talking cars and refrigerators that remind you that your lettuce is turning brown...
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Paul’s Wine-Lover’s Holiday Gift Guide

‘Tis better to give than... you know the rest. So here is a list of ideas to get you going.
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Will Tariffs Target Wine? And New Releases from Drouhin Oregon, DDO, Long Walk, :Nota Bene, Sineann

As hard a truth as it may be, the ongoing shrinkage of the domestic wine industry may simply be a culling of the herd. It happens in every industry.
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The Skinny on Biodynamic Viticulture (Plus the latest from Shea, Brittan, Soter, Winderlea, Big Table and Archery Summit)

I’ve tracked the growth of biodynamic viticulture in the Pacific Northwest with interest as more and more wineries, especially in Oregon, have adopted the practice. King Estate and Maysara...
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