SUBSCRIBE
FREE NEWSLETTER
Try "researchers"

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.
Wine

Tasting Wine: Sorting out Taste and Flavor and What you Like

I’m always curious to try to dig a little deeper into what specifically someone likes or dislikes, and it’s difficult (understandably) for most people to break down complex flavors and put them into words.
Wine

Those “It Factor” Wines

Short bottles is a term my wife and I invented some years back, when it became clear that on certain occasions we had to enforce strict guidelines as to...
Wine

How to Get More People into Drinking Wine? It Starts with Adventuring

For me the joy of wine discovery was driven by the same self-interest, and just as personal as any compelling hobby or avocation.
Wine

What Is Elegance in Wine?

Wine writing, in particular, is a minefield of vague and poorly defined terms. Meander past the usual rundown of fruits and vegetables, obscure soil types and names of barrel makers, and you’re still not out of the woods.
Wine

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...
Wine

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.
Wine

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...
Wine

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.
Wine

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.
Wine

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.”
123...11Page 1 of 11

Latest

Seattle, Washington

Contact: Editor@postalley.org