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Top wines in the Great NW Wine Competition Part one in a series of columns looking at the best wines of the Pacific Northwest.
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NW Wines By ANDY PERDUE and eric degerman
he inaugural Great Northwest Wine Washington, Oregon, Competition is in British Columbia and the books, and the Idaho. Sixteen results showed a wine professiondelicious diverals tasted the Cover sity of wines from entries over across the Pacific two days. They Story Northwest. evaluated all The competition, the wines blind, held at the historic meaning they didn’t Columbia Gorge Hotel in know who made them, so Hood River, Ore., drew they were not influenced 791 wines from more by anything except the than 200 producers in quality of the wines.
The results: nearly 100 gold medals and several hundred silvers and bronzes — a great showing by any measurement. In the next couple of weeks, we will take a closer look at the top red and white wines in the competition, which should give you some ideas on wines you will want to have in your cellar or on your dinner table. This week, we take a look at the top six wines of the competition. Interestingly, those six wines included three from Washington, two from Oregon and one
Wine judge Jay Drysdale of Vancouver, British Columbia, evaluates Syrah at the Great Northwest Wine Competition in Hood River, Ore. Andy Purdue / Great Northwest Wine
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Walla Valley. The winery is in Milton-Freewater, Ore., about 15 minutes south of Walla Walla, Wash. Zerba uses estate grapes from the Oregon side of the Walla Walla Valley. The winery’s prow-
from British Columbia — a spread that showed the tremendous talent throughout the Pacific Northwest. The best in show was Zerba Cellars’ 2010 Malbec from the Walla
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ess should come as no surprise, as winemaker Doug Nierman’s reds have been among the best anywhere for the past half-dozen years. The top white wine See Wine, Page 3
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