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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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Washington’s Gone (And Mostly Forgotten) Wineries

Tom Stockley’s “Winery Trails of the Pacific Northwest” was published in 1977 as “a complete guide to the wineries of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia”. It included just eight entries from Washington, and only two of them (Ste. Michelle and AV – now Columbia) still exist, albeit in much-diminished circumstances.
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Do Wine Labels Matter?

Price matters, shelf placement matters, and packaging matters. What counts the most as far as successful wine packaging? I’d say it’s the label’s graphic design and the name on the bottle. Same as shampoo.
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Engage This: The Art of Wine Tasting Notes

Over the years I’ve seen many slings and arrows aimed at writers of wine tasting notes. I’ve seen half-baked attempts at ‘modernizing’ tasting terms by comparing wines to cars...
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Short Bottles Got No Reason To Live

“Short people got no reason to live” sang Randy Newman in the song of the same name. Short bottles got no chance to live... they simply disappear.
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Why Do Truly Great Wines Almost Never Win Medals?

No matter how many wines are entered, the bar is set so low to begin with that the results are essentially meaningless. Any really good wine that may sneak in is likely to be smothered in mediocrity.
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Looking for a Taste: Two Wineries with Locked-in Focus

When reduced down to certain basics, it isn’t difficult to understand their different approaches to wine tasting.
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Essential Accessories for Wine Lovers

Here are my Top Ten holiday gifts and splurges. I’ve put in some links for purchase (most are available on Amazon). These are not ranked in any particular order; consider them all equally good.
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This Year’s Best Wines (Holiday Edition)

I’m comfortable offering you this pre-holiday list of the very best wines I’ve tasted so far in 2023.
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Northwest Wine: All About the Context (And the Taste of Course)

 I specifically value wines that best demonstrate typicity, specificity, clarity, elegance, polish, depth and balance.
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Washington Wine’s “Other” AVA

For many reasons it is the least well-known and most confusing for consumers. And yet it is as stunningly beautiful and more viticulturally diversified than any of the dozens of smaller AVAs scattered throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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