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Author: chavens@cascadiafinewines.com

November 14, 2018
Accolades, Washington State

DeLille’s 2015 Four Flags Honored as one of the “Year’s Best US Cabernets” by Wine & Spirits Magazine

Aside from the D2, DeLille's Four Flags Cabernet is one of their most popular wines. Year after year it garners high scores and praise from major critics. 94 Points     Wine Advocate "The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Four Flags reveals and attractive bouquet of cassis, black plums, dark chocolate, warm spices and loamy soil that has already nicely integrated its 100% new oak. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, with a chassis of rich, fine-grained, but firm tannins, good concentration and a long, youthfully firm finish. This is very impressive and an appreciable step up above the D2 this year. It will demand several years of bottle age and enjoy two decades of longevity, perhaps more." 94 Points     Jeb Dunnuck The 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon Four Flags comes from the top four vineyards in any vintage and in 2015 is 30% Grand Ciel, 30% Upchurch, 25% Ciel du Cheval, and the...

by chavens@cascadiafinewines.com
November 9, 2018
Accolades

Cascadia Fine Wines is proud to represent five of the top US wineries in Asia

[siteorigin_widget class="WP_Widget_Media_Image"][/siteorigin_widget] ARGENTINA  Catena Zapata Zuccardi AUSTRALIA D’Arenberg Giant Steps Grosset Voyager Estate Yalumba AUSTRIA Stift Göttweig CHILE Concha y Toro Errazuriz FRANCE Bouchard Père & Fils Domaine Vincent Carême Domaine Marcel Deiss Delas Frères Larmandier-Bernier J. Lassalle Philippe Livera Domaine Marc Morey et Fils Domaines Ott Bruno Paillard Domaine du Pégau Domaine de la Pousse d’Or Eric Rodez Louis Roederer Rotem & Mounir Saouma Domaine Vacheron Trimbach Domaine de la Vougeraie Domaine Zind-Humbrecht     GERMANY Dreissigacker Fritz Haag Robert Weil GREECE Estate Argyros Boutari Domaine Sigalas ITALY Marchesi Antinori Tenuta di Biserno Conterno Fantino Elvio Cogno Gulfi Mastroberardino Oddero Poggio di Sotto Le Ragnaie Rocca di Montegrossi Le Salette Sandrone NEW ZEALAND Felton Road PORTUGAL Aphros Blandy’s Kopke Casa da Passarella Soalheiro Wine & Soul SLOVENIA Kabaj SPAIN Comando G Forjas del Salnés Luis A. Rodríguez Vázquez R. López de Heredia Palacio de Fefiñanes Raúl Pérez     SPAIN (Continued) Palacio de Fefiñanes Raúl Pérez Terroir al Limit Scala Dei Vega-Sicilia UNITED STATES Anthill Farms Bergström Big Basin Vineyards Buena Vista Col Solare Corison Cristom DeLille Diamond Creek Donkey & Goat Drew Evening Land Vineyards Gramercy Cellars Heitz Cellar Hermann J. Wiemer Hirsch Iron Horse Keenan King Estate Lingua Franca Matthiasson Melville Ovum Radio-Coteau Ravenswood Raymond Robert Mondavi Winery Roederer Estate Rose & Arrow Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Stags’ Leap Winery Storybook Mountain Williams Selyem The Withers Walter Scott ...

by chavens@cascadiafinewines.com
November 7, 2018
Accolades, News, Oregon

Meet Oregon’s French Winemakers

These pioneering expats have ventured to Oregon and are showing the world why this state is called the Burgundy of the Pacific Northwest.By Paul Gregutt | Posted November 7, 2018To some degree, the diversity and excellence of Oregon wines makes comparisons to Old World styles irrelevant. But those factors should not undercut the influence French-born and trained winemakers have had on the state’s success.Along with the pioneering Drouhin family, which enters its fourth decade making Oregon wine, a number of more recent arrivals have put their winemaking expertise to work in the state, which remains one of America’s leading producers of Pinot Noir.These French winemakers praise Oregon’s welcoming winemaking community and open horizons. Moreover, they seem to have a lot of fun as they revel in the palpable sense of freedom that the state’s wineries enjoy.Perhaps it’s simply the break from the constraints of tradition, but the biggest reward to leave home, and...

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Harvest Underway at Resonance Vineyard
November 6, 2018
News

Oregon Wine Press Reports: This Year’s Harvest Simply Too Good To Be True

By Hilary Berg If, indeed, karma exists, we, as a group, must have done something spectacular in our past lives to deserve this year’s wine grape harvest. Around the state, wineries are reporting flavorful fruit with ideal sugars and spot-on acidity. The weather this harvest has also made it memorable. Here in the Willamette Valley, early rain was a welcome sight, settling the dust from an extremely dry summer, giving the grapes a final drink before picking. Beyond that small amount of precipitation, the days have been clear and the nights cool. Overall, crews in both the cellar and vineyard appear happy, albeit tired, this crush. Winemakers are also quite pleased. [caption id="attachment_10027" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Harvest Underway at Resonance Vineyard. Photo by Andrea Johnson[/caption] On Sept. 25, in the southern Willamette Valley, Danuta Pfeiffer of Pfeiffer Winery reported, “Harvest is lovely this year. The weather is warm, not hot, and the September rainstorms are holding...

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Larry Stone & Thomas Savre
September 30, 2018
Accolades, Oregon

Lingua Franca makes Wine & Spirits Top 100 List

We're pleased to announce Lingua Franca's well-earned place on Wine & Spirits Top 100 list this year, with Lingua Franca Bunker Hill and Avni Chardonnay making the year’s best Top Chardonnay list. In addition, the winery was also recently featured as one of the Wine Spectator's Rising Stars in Oregon. Earlier this month, the winery released the last two wines of the year for wholesale: Hope Well Pinot Noir 2016 and The Plow Pinot Noir 2016.The Plow has already received a 94-point score from Tim Fish of the Wine Spectator. Hope Well is a Dijon-clone PN667 expression of Mimi Casteel’s vineyard which also produces our Mimi’s Mind Pinots. It is more nuanced and delicate than The Plow, which comes primarily from Elton, the neighboring vineyard, among the oldest in the region....

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Wine & Spirits Top 50 Wine's In America's Best Restaurants
September 7, 2018
Accolades, Oregon

Cristom’s 2015 Mt. Jefferson Cuvée is the “No. 1 Pinot Noir on the wine lists of the best restaurants in America.” by Wine & Spirits Magazine

The dining room at Bâtard in Tribeca was full at noon on a recent Tuesday, when the restaurant is usually closed. The yellow walls looked brighter than at night, when they contrast less with the raised pattern of branches in a paler shade, more the color of limestone in a vineyard in Puligny. Comte Louis Michel Liger-Belair, who farms a domaine centered on La Romanée in Vosne, was in town to present a project in Oregon, one he had helped found five years ago. Liger-Belair described the first wine—a blend of fruit from snaking ribbons of vines, selected to follow the edge of lava flows at different vineyards in the Eola–Amity Hills, the Chehalem Mountains and the coast range—alongside a wine from an estate vineyard, Black Walnut, in Dundee. Both wines were savory, with more mineral than fruit flavor in the tannins, though the Dundee Hills wine was fuller, richer, more...

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Red grapes hang on vines in the Yakima Valley's Rattlesnake Hills region.WASHINGTON STATE WINE COMMISSION
August 30, 2018
News, Washington State

Forbes: The Essential Wines Of Washington State

By Courtney Schiessl Red grapes hang on vines in the Yakima Valley's Rattlesnake Hills region. Photo: Washington State Wine Commission It seems like there’s an official holiday for every kind of wine, a day, week, or month designated as “International Sauvignon Blanc Day” or “Drink Rosé Month.” While it can be confusing to keep the increasing number of wine holidays straight – and downright impractical to relegate a specific type of wine to just one day a year – these occasions can serve to shake up wine drinking habits with new genres. Take, for instance, the annual celebration of Washington Wine Month in August. Though the myriad of wines produced in the state of Washington warrant attention all year long, Washington Wine Month is an excuse to dive deep into the state’s 14 AVAs – particularly for those who haven’t checked in with the state in awhile. While the official, month-long holiday is drawing to a close, it’s...

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