Another great Taste Washington in the books. Thank you Kana Winery and Elegante for letting us pour for you. It was a great year to be both an attendee and worker due to a lower # of people thirsting for an easy drink and a greater # of people out to find the beauties of Washington state. The wineries had excellent wines and the food vendors equally good food. Although I did eat, it was the wine I was out find, and boy did I ever. Some must buys at great prices are, River Aerie Malbec and Sangiovese, Syncline was showing a Gruner Vetliner (excellent acidity), Robert Karl 2006 Claret, Kana 2005 Tempranillo, and as always Camaraderie had a star Cabernet Franc 2005. For the expensive big boys as always I found the Longshadows group to be outstanding and look for Saviah's Syrah Reserve bottling and Bunnell's single vineyard Syrahs. I am updating our home page www.ellensburgwineworks.com to reflect some of the treasures I found at Taste and will have many more of them in the store, shoot us an E-mail or give us a call we ship almost everywhere. For my usual epiphany I have to say I am shocked as to how many people I talk to out of the Pacific Northwest that have not discovered Washington wine and for you Cali files remember variety is the......

Twitter my Tweeter, Keeping wineos on their toes

So I guess I'm a Twitter or maybe just a twit. I don't think so this time, this seems like a great way to keep up with the in the moment thoughts of other wine lovers. At first I thought it sounded like people were just calling each other names by twitting and tweeting, but I have found that this is a great to communicate thoughts on all things wine and related. I guess I do want to hear what you are having for dinner and what wine you will try with it, or what your best buy was today, or may be even just how are feeling about wine right now! Anyway it seems that this is here to stay and new entry in the digital world of wine, so try it out after all variety is the....