Samantha Cole-Johnson
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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And the thing is, a lot of those wines are, okay, so a couple things.
Some of those wines are being put into massive bulk blends.
But the wineries over there that are really good, well, there's Boise, and that's a big market.
And they come and they take all the good wine and then they go home.
And so it's in both Washington and in Idaho, there's this thing that happens where really good wineries are mostly DTC because the Seattle market or the Boise market will just come, grab wines, join the club, and off they go.
And then what you're getting in the U.K.,
no shade, but is mostly like Chateau Saint-Michel or these huge producers because they have the volume to export and the little guys don't want to deal with all the paperwork.
And they're also like, but we have a ready market.
Look, these people come visit us all the time, which I think is actually a more sustainable model.
But sometimes when you talk to people about Washington wine, they go, oh, well, it's like Chateau Saint-Michel, right?
That's all of it.
And you're like,
And for a really long time, that was the huge majority of it.
It's still a really big piece of it.
But there are really, really good wines being made and from smaller producers and people who are concerned about farming.
And it's trending more in that direction.
Washington started with big producers and large-scale farming.
And a lot of the vineyards there are still built that way.
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