2026 Wine Promoted
Quarter Two Wines Promoted
Well when you tasted 500 plus wines in five days you think the palate might be a bit dull but for some reason I don’t have a limit. At Taste Washington this wine stood out as by far the best value and served this in a blind tasting last night and was wine of the night against $50 plus wines. Get some before it is sold out. Gravel Bar.
- 2021 Gravel Bar Winery Alluvial Columbia Valley – USA, Washington, Columbia Valley
Glasvin Kane. So this just won a blind event with wines $50 and above. Clear cut winner tonight and my top wine along with 3 others out of seven. Cherry, plum, spice, floral, minerals and earth. Very solid wine and for the price none better in Washington. (94 pts.)
Quarter One Wines Promoted
2021 Thurston Wolfe Petite Sirah Reserve Zephyr Ridge Vineyard 2020 Achával-Ferrer Quimera 2020 Big Table Farm Syrah Funk Estate Vineyard 2019 Tan Fruit Chardonnay Oak Grove Vineyard 2023 Drew Family Cellars Chardonnay Radiolaria 2010 Anderson’s Conn Valley Vineyards Éloge
2025 Wines Promoted
Wine of the Year: 2022 Abbott Claim Chardonnay Temperance Hill Vineyard This was an amazing year of tasting wines from around the world. A record amount of notes were written and I plan on doing even more in 2026.
Quarter One Wines Promoted
Quarter One: 2021 Januik Cabernet Sauvignon Quintessence, 2017 Reynvaan Family Vineyards Syrah In the Rocks, 2008 Anderson’s Conn Valley Eloge, Result of a Crush 2017 & 2021 Syrah, 2020 Concha y Toro Cabernet Sauvignon Don Melchor, 2021 Idda Etna Rosso- Italy, Sicily, Etna DOC.
Quarter Two Wines Promoted
Quarter Two: 2020 Mark Ryan Merlot Little Sister,1998 Fox Creek Shiraz Reserve, 2020 Achával-Ferrer Quimera, 2011 Sheridan Vineyard L’Orage, 2023 Hartford / Hartford Court Chardonnay Russian River Valley, 2012 MTR Productions Syrah Memory Found
Quarter Three Wines Promoted
Quarter Three: 2016 Buty Rediviva of the Stones Cailloux Vineyard 2022 Ceritas Pinot Noir Costalina 2021 The Standish Wine Company Shiraz The Standish 2007 Corliss Estates Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 Patricia Green Cellars Pinot Noir Mysterious 2021 Abbott Claim Chardonnay Temperance Hill Vineyard 2022 Abbott Claim Chardonnay 2014 Result of a Crush Red Wine
Quarter Four Wines Promoted
Quarter Four: 2022 Abbott Claim Chardonnay Temperance Hill Vineyard 2019 Peay Vineyards Pinot Noir Savoy Vineyard 2016 Elephant Seven Syrah Yellow Bird Vineyard 2024 Morét-Brealynn Rosé of Pinot Noir 2020 Torbreck Shiraz The Struie 2004 Two Hands Cabernet Sauvignon Aphrodite 2018 Leeuwin Estate Chardonnay Art Series