Copyright 2013: The Gray Report This article is abstracted. To read more from The Gray Report, click here.   Oregon is suddenly the belle of the wine ball. A year ago the image was of enlightened hippies earnestly struggling to farm in sync with Mother Nature, with no wineries bigger than 175,000-cases King Estate. This week, …

Copyright 2013 – Wine Press Northwest This article is abstracted. To read more, click here.  You won’t see the name “Precept” on any labels, yet Precept Wine in Seattle is one of the Northwest’s largest and most influential wine producers. Precept’s roots go back to the 1990s, when the Baty family — under the name Corus …

Thanks to a combination of acquisitions and organic growth, Northwest winemaker Precept Wine expects to pass the 1-million-case mark in 2013, co-founder and CEO Andrew Browne tells Shanken News Daily. “A rising tide lifts all boats, and in the Northwest wine industry—whether it’s Idaho, Oregon or Washington—we’ve got a rising tide,” Browne says. Seattle-based Precept’s …