Tag: Pacific Northwest Wines

Five Impressive Oregon-Made Sparkling Wines

Elegant and elevated bubbles from an unexpected region

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Oregon is known for its award-winning Pinot Noir, but its success with sparkling wine might very well change the conversation. The numbers speak volumes (as sparkling wine sales from the state grew more than 50% in Nielsen-tracked channels in 2018) but there are, of course, far more impressive and interesting factors at play here. Andrew Davis, owner of Oregon’s Radiant Sparkling Wine Company (a company …

Inside Seattle’s Jet City Winery

Winemaker Charles Smith transforms a former Dr. Pepper bottling plant into the largest urban winery on the West Coast

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In 2014, Charles Smith won Wine Enthusiast’s global winemaker of the year. It was an accolade he thinks fondly on (with more than a note of surprise), but it was telling of the years worth of work invested in his Washington state wines. His latest project, unveiled on 25 July, happens to be a wine destination of epic proportions. Charles Smith Wines’ Jet City winery, …