This Culinary Cruise Through the Pacific Northwest Follows Lewis and Clark's Path

"On a shipbound tasting, Coco Umiker — owner and head winemaker — had us laughing with her line, “Your one job while I’m talking? Drink!” and then proved the point: her Carmenère is rich and slick, “like a ride in an old plush car,” while the wines that stole my heart were a bone-dry Albariño and a Syrah grown in the wind-blown loess of north-central Idaho that is so redolent of sage it’s almost savory. Umiker started Clearwater Canyon Cellars in 2004 when it was only the 15th winery in Idaho; she noted that there are now 65 wineries and that “we’re riding the coattails of Oregon and Washington.”" - Becky Cooper