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Time to shake our collective heads. Anyone with half a glass and half a brain knows there's terrific wine in Washington. Chateau Ste. Michelle has been an industry leader for over two decades; we've gone from a handful of wineries to 500 licensed producers since 1980; we're the envy of the growers worldwide. But that obviously excludes the business staff at the Seattle Times. They can't even run a Google search on their own content.
Just look! With enormous fanfare this weekend, the paper trumpets the arrival of a cult winemaker from California, Randal Grahm, in our "mostly overlooked" region. What? Just because a quirky guy from Santa Cruz is setting up shop in Benton City, it's front-page news? What about the international awards (reported on this very site from time to time) garnered by folks who've lived here all their lives?
If we were Paul Gregutt, the witty and perceptive wine writer whose columns appear weekly in the Times, we'd take up arms against the business department. Don't these guys ever read their own fucking paper? "Mostly overlooked," my glass! And they wonder why newspapers are becoming irrelevant.
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If you don't think Washington wines are overlooked, just travel to some other parts of the country. True, the hard-core wine lovers are aware, but among the masses there is indeed a lack of appreciation.
Methinks there's more than a little provincialism and snobbery -- not to mention wild overreaction to the innocuous phrase "mostly overlooked" -- in your post.