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Columbia Crest Winery

 

Columbia Crest Winery


People who bought wines from Columbia Crest
also bought wines from:

Canoe Ridge, Chateau Ste Michelle, Snoqualamie

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Columbia Crest Grande Estate Merlot

$12.10 - Case price
(any 12 or more bottles)

Price: $13.45

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Blueberry and cocoa aromas continue in the mouth. Velvety softness trails across the palate leaving a rich fruity finish. Ray Einberger, Winemaker...read more

Columbia Crest Grande Estate Syrah 01

$10.57 - Case price
(any 12 or more bottles)

Price: $11.75

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This Rhone-style wine features fresh rose, ripe strawberry and white pepper aromas. A terrific balance between fruit and cocoa flavors delivers a soft, well-integrated wine with a lush, lingering finish. Ray Einberger, Winemaker...read more

Columbia Crest Merlot Reserve 03/04

$23.36 - Case price
(any 12 or more bottles)

Price: $25.95

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Columbia Crest's best quality Merlot, smaller amounts made from the best grapes of the vintage....read more

Columbia Crest Syrah Reserve 04

$22.45 - Case price
(any 12 or more bottles)

Price: $24.95

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Columbia Crest's best Syrah, a wine made in smaller amounts from the highest quality grapes of the vintage....read more

Columbia Crest Cabernet Reserve 05

Price: $27.95

$25.16 - Any 12 bottles
- regular size (375 or 750 ml)


95 points- Wine Spectator

"Ripe in flavor, with a vivid array of black currant, blackberry, violet, black tea and black pepper aromas and flavors that zoom through to a long, expressive finish. Shows subtlety in the layers of ...read more

Columbia Crest Reserve Semillon Ice Wine 05 375 ml

$19.75 - Case price
(any 12 or more bottles)

Price: $21.95

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The Columbia Crest Reserve Semillon Ice Wine is the best deal we've ever found for a genuine, picked off the vines, Ice Wine. Like many great European ice wines, this wine was crafted from grapes left hanging on the vine into December. Rock solid...read more

Columbia Crest Walter Clore Col Valley 04

$34.16 - Case price
(any 12 or more bottles)

Price: $37.95

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A special wine made in honor of wine pioneer Walter Clore....read more

Red Diamond Merlot 05/06

$8.05 - Case price
(any 12 or more bottles)

Price: $8.95

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Red Diamond Merlot is a great value from a new winery, part of the Ste Michelle group. Elsewhere on the web, it's $14 a bottle - this is the exact same wine, we don't know why the huge price elsewhere online.

From the winery: "The line in t...read more

Red Diamond Chardonnay 05

$8.96 - Case price
(any 12 or more bottles)

Price: $9.95

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Red Diamond Chardonnay 05 - a rich, refreshing blend of pear, apple, and creamy apricot flavors. Refreshing.

Red Diamond is a new winery with blended Washington wines at value prices.

From the winery: "In a nutshell, this wine fills your m...read more

Red Diamond Cabernet Sauvignon 06

$8.96 - Case price
(any 12 or more bottles)

Price: $9.95

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Red Diamond Cabernet is a great value, a new winery from the Ste Michelle group. Excellent value.

Elsewhere on the web at $15.

...read more

Ice Wine Case Pack

Price: $257.89

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Ice Wine Case Pack - 15% Off Retail!

Save $45.51

The Pacific Northwest offers values like no where else. We offer the rare and authentic ice wines, made from frozen grapes ...read more

 

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Columbia Crest Winery


People who bought wines from Columbia Crest
also bought wines from:

Canoe Ridge, Chateau Ste Michelle, Snoqualamie

Other Washington wineries we suggest:

Di Stefano, Walla Walla Vintners, Kiona, L'Ecole #41


About Columbia Crest

Columbia Crest is one of the largest wineries in the United States, and the largest in the Northwestern United States. Columbia Crest is located in a beautiful Chateau in Woodinville, Washington, built by the winery in 1982. By 1983, Columbia Crest had invested $26 million in the Washington winery, a sum that has been returned many times over as the winery was immediately successful, and continues to be one of the most successful wineries in the world.

Columbia Crest WineryBy 1990, noted wine critic Robert Parker had named Columbia Crest one of the 24 "best value wineries". So many awards and kudos have been awarded that we literally don't have room to list them all here.In 1992, Columbia Crest began viticultural and enological research on microclimates and irrigation that continues today.

Columbia Crest has pioneered vineyard and winery research in the Northwest. In March, 1999, Columbia Crest released the results of their six year study on irrigation in the Northwest. In 1999, Columbia Crest added a new, $7 million red wine fermentation facility to its winery. The expansion introduced to Columbia Crest rotary fermenters, a high-tech heating and cooling system that can be monitored and adjusted from a remote location, and fermentation, storage and blending tanks in varying sizes. The expansion will help winemaker Doug Gore to create even more fine, handcrafted wines.

 

The Winemaker

As extraordinary as they are, the winegrowing conditions in the Columbia Valley can’t produce wine on their own. That’s where Columbia Crest’s winegrowers and winemakers come in, led by Doug Gore.

A California native, Doug has been making wine in Washington State since 1982 and making headlines for almost as long. His Columbia Crest Merlots caught the wine world’s attention more than a decade ago, and he continues to innovate with Columbia Crest’s Semillon, Semillon-Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Merlot-Cabernet programs.

Though Doug’s work has helped Columbia Crest win many awards, he urges visitors to the winery to decide for themselves which wines they like best. "Awards and high ratings are fun to get," he says, "but you can’t drink them. The best wine in the world is the one that tastes best to you."

Columbia Crest WineOne of Doug Gore’s long-term projects at Columbia Crest has been to create what he calls "wineries within the winery," so that different wines can be made in different ways, depending on the varietal, the vintage, and the vineyards. "We even assign people to those specific areas," he says, "so that they have an opportunity to become expert with the processes they’re using. This also creates a special feeling about what they’re doing. The areas that people work in really do become wineries within the winery." The specific artisan techniques Doug applies to different Columbia Crest wines are key components in their ultimate designation as Columbia Valley, Grand Estates, or Reserve wines.

Of course, he is intimately acquainted with his wine grapes long before they arrive in the winery. "It all starts in the fields," he says, "and we’re blessed to have so many of our vineyards right around the winery so I can be close to the vines." After the harvest, he keeps in mind how each lot of winegrapes was farmed. "We have a tremendous amount of sophisticated winemaking technology at our disposal at Columbia Crest," he explains. "My job is to make sure it’s put to the best use, so that there’s as much Mother Nature in the wine as modern science."

Doug is aware that his winemaking team is helping to build one of America’s most popular and fastest-growing wineries. Yet he remains modest, easy-going, and quick to give credit to others. "I work at a dream job with a great team of talented people," he says. "Every day we get a chance to put our education and training to work to create something people can enjoy, all across the country. Sure, we work hard, but a lot of the time it doesn’t feel like work. ‘Excitement’ would be a much better word."

 

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