Copyright 2015, Robert Ehlert, The Idaho Statesman See the full story here. It has taken me 40 years to get around to finally paying a visit to Ste. Chapelle Winery, and I am here to say you shouldn’t tarry quite that long before heading out to Sunny Slope for a sip or two paired with …
Eric Degerman, writer for Great Northwest Wine, recently took a look at The Daily Meal’s list of the “101 Best Wineries in America.” According to the numbers, out of the “approximately 8,500 wineries in America (including 750+ in Washington alone),” 9 of the top 101 wineries in the country come from Washington. Two other wineries …
Copyright Idaho Press Tribune. See the full story here. Long before Idaho wines began earning national recognition and before the Sunnyslope region of Caldwell was dotted with vineyards and tasting rooms, the Symms family got into the wine-making business.Forty years later, the winery they started, Ste. Chapelle, produces about 130,000 cases of wine each year, …
Eric Degerman and Andy Perdue, Dec. 25-31, 2014 The Great Northwest Wine crew tasted more than 5,000 wines in 2014, and we have come up with 100 wines from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Idaho that struck us as among the best we experienced. The wines were selected from blind tastings in which we were …
(Abstracted from www.wineeconomist.com) Read the full story here. We spent a weekend in the Idaho wine country last month and I’m still trying to make sense of the experience. It seems like every time I think I know what Idaho wine is I shift my ground a little bit and see something new and usually …