Paul Gregutt is the best-known, full-time independent journalist covering the wines and wineries of the Pacific Northwest. Over the past 35 years, he has written thousands of wine articles and reviews for national and international newspapers, magazines and trade journals as well as an award-winning website. From 2002 to 2012 he wrote a weekly wine column for the Seattle Times. He is the author of two critically-acclaimed editions of ‘Washington Wines & Wineries – The Essential Guide’, published by the University of California Press. From 1998 untl 2022 Gregutt was the Northwest editor for Wine Enthusiast magazine, and a founding member of the magazine’s Tasting Panel. Prior to his rather surprising emergence as a wine whisperer he was on the original staff of both the Seattle Weekly and KZAM, ahead of meandering media career that included producer/writer positions at KCTS, KOMO, Watts-Silverstein and EPG Digital Media. He lives with his wife Karen and his rescue dog Cookie in Waitsburg, Washington. When not tasting and writing about wine he writes songs, plays guitar and sings in his band the DavePaul5. Follow his writing at
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