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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.

By 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.

 

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