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Three and a half years ago, Ryan Jasielum took up the mantle of Liholiho’s opening somm, Lulu McAllister, and fashioned a wine list full of precise, focused wines that play off chef Ravi Kapur’s riffs on Hawaiian and Polynesian flavors.
There’s no question that Washington’s hottest AVA—as in degree days—is also its hottest—as in fastest growing. That’s Red Mountain, a 4,040-acre speck within the vast, 11-million-acre Columbia Valley AVA. Jim Holmes and John Williams planted what’s now known as Ciel du Cheval Vineyard back in 1975, followed by Klipsun, planted by David and Patricia Gelles
Brian Rudin is the new Winemaker and General Manager at Echolands, a winery on the Oregon side of the Walla Walla Valley AVA.
L’Ecole No 41, based in Walla Walla, Washington, announced that it has hired Ryan Pennington as the winery’s Chief Operating Officer.
From the first sentence of his masterful two-volume set, The New French Wine, Jon Bonné creates a portrait of the country in all its turbulence and vitality.