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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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What Makes Patricia Green Cellars Different from Every Other American Winery

The biggest challenge for any winery producing a big lineup of Pinots from the same vintage is making each of them distinctive, stand-alone wines. When it gets down to single clone or block selections, all too often I taste a good component rather than a complete wine. The remarkable achievement at Patty Green Cellars is that the dozens of different cuvées are all distinctive and compelling, no matter the vintage.
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Wine Vintage Charts: Unreliable and Harmful

Granted that one would expect wines that have come directly from winery libraries to be in fine condition, as all of these were. But shouldn’t there have been some noticeable differences between the two vintages – one that most agree was more difficult than “very good” and one that is considered to be among the very best of the past two decades?
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Oregon’s Best Sparklers Rated

The closer they come to embodying (not mimicking) the quality of fine Champagne, the more they will be compared to those wines in terms of price. And as a general rule, Oregon's sparklers do not undercut entry-level Champagnes on price. Price aside, they are quite competitive, and well worth your consideration.
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Goodbye Cheap Wine? Hello Premiumization!

This new trend seems counterintuitive (at least to me) given that consumers are drifting away from wine and toward a plethora of other alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Beer, cocktails,...
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More than a Myth: The Finesse of Eyrie Vineyards

"Eyrie's Pinots set a towering standard for ageworthiness; they often don't begin to evolve until most other wines of the vintage have died."
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From a PNW Wine-Making Pioneer

Washington was considered to be too hot and dry in the summer, too cold in the winter to grow anything but (maybe) a bit of Riesling. Oregon, the experts said, was simply too cold and too wet to grow wine grapes profitably.
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A Passion for Pinots

Pinot Noir is special to me, partly because I live so close to some of the greatest Pinot producers in the world, partly because it is by general acclaim one of the world’s most challenging grapes to grow and wines to make.
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Master Merlots and More: L’Ecole No. 41

Way back when Merlot was in the doghouse following the release of the film 'Sideways' it was already known to a handful of producers that Walla Walla was a special place to make this particular Bordeaux red.
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Breaking Boundaries in Walla Walla: The Wines of Itä

Apart from my own enthusiasm at seeing Walla Walla wines reach a new and exciting stage in their ongoing evolution, wines such as these wines challenge me to work past my own limitations, spurred on by the simple excitement of trying something new.
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Mom and Pop’s Old Vines

My own wine country explorations are often focused on seeking out old vine vineyards, and Oregon has a surprising number tucked away.
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