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Paul Gregutt

Paul Gregutt has been covering the wines and wineries of the Pacific Northwest since the mid-1980s. From 2002 to 2012 he wrote a weekly wine column for the Seattle Times and authored two critically-acclaimed editions of ‘Washington Wines & Wineries – The Essential Guide’ (UC Berkeley Press). He served as the Northwest editor for Wine Enthusiast magazine from 1998 until 2022. Early on he was an original staff member of both the Seattle Weekly and KZAM-FM. He lives with his wife Karen and his rescue dog Cookie in Waitsburg (pop. 1204), a farm community about 20 miles NE of Walla Walla. When not tasting and writing about wine he writes songs, plays guitar and sings in his band the DavePaul5 (davepaul5.com) Follow his writing at PaulG on Wine, paulgregutt.substack.com, and in the Waitsburg Times.
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Short Bottles Got No Reason To Live

“Short people got no reason to live” sang Randy Newman in the song of the same name. Short bottles got no chance to live... they simply disappear.
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Why Do Truly Great Wines Almost Never Win Medals?

No matter how many wines are entered, the bar is set so low to begin with that the results are essentially meaningless. Any really good wine that may sneak in is likely to be smothered in mediocrity.
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Looking for a Taste: Two Wineries with Locked-in Focus

When reduced down to certain basics, it isn’t difficult to understand their different approaches to wine tasting.
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Essential Accessories for Wine Lovers

Here are my Top Ten holiday gifts and splurges. I’ve put in some links for purchase (most are available on Amazon). These are not ranked in any particular order; consider them all equally good.
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This Year’s Best Wines (Holiday Edition)

I’m comfortable offering you this pre-holiday list of the very best wines I’ve tasted so far in 2023.
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Northwest Wine: All About the Context (And the Taste of Course)

 I specifically value wines that best demonstrate typicity, specificity, clarity, elegance, polish, depth and balance.
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Washington Wine’s “Other” AVA

For many reasons it is the least well-known and most confusing for consumers. And yet it is as stunningly beautiful and more viticulturally diversified than any of the dozens of smaller AVAs scattered throughout the Pacific Northwest.
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The Collectable Wine that will Never be Drunk

In my dream world, all collectible wines would be auctioned for charity repeatedly. If such rare bottles are never going to be drunk, at least they can be re-sold repeatedly, raising money for a worthy cause every time.
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Ten Tips to Better Enjoy Good Wine

Here are common distractions that can diminish your enjoyment, no matter how great the wine may be. So ask yourself – am I missing out?
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Going Rogue in the Applegate AVA

Though most of the valley’s wineries are quite small and the wines sold principally out of tasting rooms and local retailers, a few have reached beyond and deserve much wider recognition.
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