Sean P. Sullivan Northwest Wine Report

02/12/2025

Paired with pizza and Home Alone. Happy holidays everyone!

01/12/2025

Yes, it's that time of year. Time for our annual Cyber Monday subscription sale!

This is our *only* subscription discount throughout the year. Get $10 off consumer, commercial, or enterprise annual subscriptions. The offer expires at the end of the day Sunday December 7th.

I still need 7 more subscribers to keep things going in 2026. If you've been planning to subscribe, now is the time!

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Happy Cyber Monday everyone! As always, this is Northwest Wine Report's only subscriber discount of the year! You all know the story of today, as I have written in previous years. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, became a traditional day of shopping frenzy in the U.S. Some

30/11/2025

It’s a two night mini vertical! 2013 last night, 2014 tonight. Hold this one. It needs time.

Paired with more Stranger Things. No spoilers, but wine plays an…interesting role in the first few episodes of the new season.

30/11/2025

Saturday night folks! What's everyone opening up this evening?

Still looking for eight more subscribers to Northwest Wine Report during my Fall Subscriber Drive to keep things going in 2026. Link to subscribe in the comments. Join us!

People who accepted the 2026 Northwest Wine Challenge, second to last night to taste your November Northwest Grenache. Early next month, I'll post asking what wine everyone had to keep us all accountable.

Okay, on your mark, get set, go!

29/11/2025

My contribution. Paired with fettuccini with mushroom and thyme and the new Stranger Things. The wine is singing.

29/11/2025

Friday night folks! What's everyone opening up this evening?

Northwest Wine Report's Fall Subscriber Drive continues! Still looking for 8 more brave souls to subscribe to Northwest Wine Report to keep things going in 2026. Link in the comments. To people who have already subscribed, thank you!

Folks who accepted the 2025 Northwest Wine Challenge, only a couple more nights to get that November Northwest Grenache tasted. Early next month, I'll post asking what wine everyone had to keep us all accountable. Home stretch!

Make sure to check out my articles from this week if you haven't seen them already:

Five things you might not know about me

Happy Thanksgiving!

Link in the comments.

If you haven't already done so, feel free to tell us what you opened for Thanksgiving either here or on Wednesday night's post.

Okay, ready. Set. Go!

28/11/2025

Here’s my follow on question, and no looking up the answer! What appellation is missing from this picture?

We're celebrating American made wine on this Thanksgiving day with wines from Washington.⁠
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What's your favorite AVA in Washington state?

27/11/2025

Our Thanksgiving eve tradition is to open an older bottle from Washington. This 1978 Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery Cold Creek Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is, I believe, the first vineyard designated wine produced in Washington. (Feel free to correct me if I am mistaken.) It was purchased from the estate of Allen Shoup, former head of the company and later the founder of Long Shadows Vintners. I open it tonight in Allen's memory.

I'll post some additional notes on the wine in a bit.

27/11/2025

Starting out tonight with some Willamette Valley rosé bubbles from Soter Vineyards. 2021 vintage. Apologies for my wine rack getting hungry on the label.

27/11/2025

Happy Thanksgiving eve folks! What's everyone opening up tonight? What are your wine plans for the big day?

Wishing you all a happy and safe Thanksgiving tomorrow full of family, friends, and, of course, Northwest wine.

26/11/2025

Only one place to go after two corked bottles of the same wine.

26/11/2025

Dinner had to wait, as I got called in to perform an emergency surgery on a three year old bottle of Gigondas. Wine is now resting comfortably in my glass.

Update: Check that. It’s corked.
Update 2: Second bottle of it was too. Both very subtle.