Winners in the 2010 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition have been announced

In addition to the many individual medals awarded to Washington state wineries for their efforts in the recent competition, five Washington state wineries were awarded Best of Class awards for some of their wines. One of the five wineries took home two individual Best of Class medals, so the state comes home with six (6) Best of Show awards.
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Milton-Freewater is the kind of small town -- two adjacent small towns, actually, joined by that hyphen back in 1950 -- where the residents leave their doors unlocked. Heck, the door to our room at the local bed-and-breakfast, the Nine Trees Inn, didn't even have a lock.

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What’s new in Walla Walla: For all of the rapid growth that has transformed Oregon’s wine industry over the past few decades, its Washington counterpart — particularly in the Walla Walla Valley — has matched it step for step.
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Perhaps they're not the first place you think of when it comes to wineries, but these four regions offer character and great wine, without the hoopla.Click here to read full article

It's a tough year for lovers of collectible Cabernet. Flat-screen TVs, cars, all matter of durable goods are seeing their prices slashed, but when it comes to wine there is what you might call institutional resistance.Click here to read full article

Most Walla Walla wines are too young and too new to be well known. Following are some of the more available. Click here to read full article

Walla Walla-the river-laced Washington State college town close to the Oregon border-was named after a Native American expression for "many waters." Click here to read full article.

Brawny yet refined, Syrahs from Washington state bring back the 'wow' that Zinfandel used to pack.Click here to read full article.

Across the Walla Walla Valley of Eastern Washington, hundreds of grape vines cling to trellises. Beyond the fruit laden vineyards, boutique wineries dot the landscape.Click here to read full article.

The Washington region, once dotted with a few vintners, has exploded with wineries making Syrahs, Cabernets and Bordeaux-style blends bursting with intriguing flavors.Click here to read full article.

The winemaking success of a climate-challenging corner of the U.S. Click here to read full article.

Once again, in the retrospective spirit of the season, I offer a highly personal list of the year's Top 100 Washington wines. Click here to read full article.

So, apparently sometime around the start of the new millennium this town whose name was synonymous with its penitentiary became "the next Napa Valley." Click here to read full article.

Wineries are taking up the cause of sustaining the soil, and all the good Earth. Click here to read full article