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Taste Washington 2015: A Battle Plan

Tackling the nation’s largest single region food and wine event involves an element of strategy...and this six-step plan.

03/23/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan

Behind Bars

Five Questions for the Bartender: Chad Phillips

A barman absolutely mad for sherry explains its many charms.

03/18/2015 By Darren Davis

Oeno Files

Weekly Wine Pick: Goose Ridge g3 Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley 2012

One of the year's best Washington wine values

03/17/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan

Oeno Files

20 Ways to Celebrate Washington Wine Month

Culminating with Taste Washington

03/09/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan

Oeno Files

Weekly Wine Pick: Woodinville Wine Cellars Little Bear Creek Red Wine Columbia Valley 2012

A $20 offering that drinks like a wine nearly twice the price

03/03/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan

Fancy Sodas

Seattle Is Ginger Beer's Boomtown

The drink once relegated to a moscow mule mixer has become a full-fledged industry here.

03/02/2015 By Caroline Ferguson

Beer, Wine, Spirit

3 Drinks for March

This month's imbibing agenda

03/02/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan and Allecia Vermillion

Review

Single Shot on Capitol Hill: A Shot of Style

This new watering hole is the hottest ticket in town.

03/02/2015 By Kathryn Robinson

Oeno Files

Meet the Northwest's Newest Official Winegrowing Region

Its distinctive wines have helped brighten Washington's star. So why is the Rocks District located in Walla Walla Valley…Oregon?

02/25/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan

Oeno Files

Weekly Wine Pick: Gramercy Cellars Lower East Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley 2012

Gramercy’s 2012 cabernet is labeled Lower East but drinks more like the Upper West Side.

02/24/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan

Hopped Up

Outer Planet Brewing Opens on Capitol Hill

Meet the neighborhood's new nanobrewery and taproom.

02/20/2015 By Allecia Vermillion

Oeno Files

Weekly Wine Pick: àMaurice Cellars Malbec Columbia Valley 2011

Argentina’s signature variety is Washington's sleeper hit.

02/17/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan

Day Drinking

6 of Seattle's Best Bloody Marys

Brunch's signature cocktail, from subtle to skyscraping

02/16/2015 By Darren Davis

Oeno Files

Weekly Wine Pick: Sixto Uncovered Chardonnay Washington 2012

Uncovering the new (and most impressive) Washington chardonnay

02/10/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan

Oeno Files

Weekly Wine Pick: Corvus Cellars Cuvée Columbia Valley 2011

A Washington wine prototype: high quality, fairly priced, and nano-produced

02/03/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan

Three Drinks

One Beer, One Wine, and One Spirit for February

February’s imbibing agenda.

02/03/2015 By Allecia Vermillion

Imbibing Agenda

Salt and Straw's Collaboration Beer Comes to Seattle

It's a salted caramel stout, brewed by Breakside Brewery. Unsurprisingly, it's selling like hotcakes in the Emerald City.

02/02/2015 By Caroline Ferguson

Opening Dispatch

Stout Opens Tomorrow on Capitol Hill

With "just" 20 carefully curated taps.

01/29/2015 By Caroline Ferguson

Oeno Files

Weekly Wine Pick: Flying Trout Winery The Brook Blend Columbia Valley 2011

A particularly Washington riff on the Bordeaux blend.

01/27/2015 By Sean P. Sullivan

Exciting Developments

Hotel Albatross and Sexy Alley Puffy Tacos Open This Week

Ooooh. Ballard's intriguing new cocktail bar comes with a street food walkup window.

01/27/2015 By Allecia Vermillion