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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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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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The Collectable Wine that will Never be Drunk

In my dream world, all collectible wines would be auctioned for charity repeatedly. If such rare bottles are never going to be drunk, at least they can be re-sold repeatedly, raising money for a worthy cause every time.
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Ten Tips to Better Enjoy Good Wine

Here are common distractions that can diminish your enjoyment, no matter how great the wine may be. So ask yourself – am I missing out?
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Going Rogue in the Applegate AVA

Though most of the valley’s wineries are quite small and the wines sold principally out of tasting rooms and local retailers, a few have reached beyond and deserve much wider recognition.
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Accolades for NW Wines and a Restaurant

Wine Enthusiast mag’s annual list of the year’s Top 100 Best Buys has just been published. Understandably this is one of the year’s most widely-read issues.
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Oregon’s First Winery

The Oregon Wine Board reports that European immigrants began planting grapes here as far back as the 1840s. In 1852 (some sources say 1854) settler Peter Britt planted a vineyard at his home in Jacksonville that included a wide variety of Vitis Vinifera grapes, among them some ‘Franc Pinot’ that may have been Oregon’s first planting of Pinot Noir.
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Keeping Score: The Narrowing of Wine Ratings

The once-rare scores of 95 and above have become commonplace. Someone somewhere no matter how obscure has given that $8 Chardonnay a 95 and the number is all that matters.
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