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• The "Flayvors of Washington" Recipe Contest, Presented by Columbia Crest Winery and Food Network Star Bobby Flay, Begins Today

  - 2008-04-15

  Acclaimed Washington State Winery Sponsors Contest on FoodNetwork.com with World-Renowned Chef PATERSON, Wash. -- Columbia Crest Winery, in conjunction with Chef Bobby Flay, today launched the "Flayvors of Washington" recipe contest. The month-and-a-half-long contest, which runs through May 31, 2008, is being hosted on FoodNetwork.com, the No. 1 food...

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• Columbia Crest announces the introduction of its H3 ultra-premium product tier

  - 2008-03-01

  Columbia Crest announces the introduction of its H3 ultra-premium product tier. The wine is crafted from fruit grown in the Horse Heaven Hills AVA. The chardonnay, merlot and cabernet sauvignon began shipping in January 2008 to limited markets for a suggested retail price of $15 per bottle. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

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• Columbia Crest adds two

  - 2004-05-01

  Columbia Crest, Paterson, Wash., has added 2001 Two Vines Cabernet Sauvignon and 2001 Two Vines Shiraz to its Two Vines tier, which retails for $8 per bottle.

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• Columbia Crest has new reserve

  - 2002-12-01

  Washington state's Columbia Crest Winery introduced "Walter Clore Private Reserve," an artisan-style Bordeaux blend. The 2,000 case 1999 vintage is available nationally at a suggested retail price of $30. Walter Clore is a Washington wine legend, who proved that premium wines could be made from Washington-grown vinifera grapes.

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• Columbia Crest bows "Grand Estates" wines

  - 2001-06-01

  The wines, to be available nationally, are Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and are to retail for about $11 per bottle. Doug Gore, winemaker, noted vinifera acreage in Washington State has grown from 11,100 acres in 1993 to 24,806 acres in 1999.

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• Wine Spectator Names Columbia Crest Producer of Year's ``Top Washington Wine''

  - 1999-12-16

  PATERSON, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 14, 1999-- Wine Spectator, the nation's leading wine enthusiast publication, has named a Columbia Crest Estate Chardonnay as the "Top Washington Wine" released during 1999. For the second time in three years, the magazine also has named an Estate Chardonnay as one of the "Top...

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• Columbia Crest Grape Harvest Yields Quality Fruit; Winemaker Reports Excellent Flavor

  - 1996-10-29

  PATERSON, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 29, 1996--Columbia Crest Estate Vineyards and Winery concluded its 1996 grape harvest granting high marks to fruit quality and recording yields just higher than projected. Columbia Crest winemaker Doug Gore analyzed fruit samples throughout the grape crush and found excellent flavor and character development....

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• Columbia Crest, Merlot, 1993, $11.(Food)(Wine Of The Week)

  - 1996-01-17

  More than any other winery, Washington State's Columbia Crest ignited the spark that led to the recent explosion of interest in wines made from merlot. Year after year its moderately priced merlots have tasted rich and soft - exactly the combination that many...

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• The Columbia Crest approach to demystifying wine

  - 1993-08-01

  In the past, wineries have concentrated their marketing efforts on esoteric points of quality, such as aging and complexity, as if gentlemen in smoking jackets were the only ones who could enjoy wine, says Ted Baseler, senior vice president, marketing and communications, of the Woodinville, Washington-based Stimson Lane, producers of...

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