Columbia Crest's tasting room in Paterson, Wash., is open by appointment only November through March ... More and on Saturdays and Sundays the rest of the year. Kevin Cruff for Ste. Michelle Wine ...

To bookend the day with visits to Columbia Crest and AniChe is to understand the full scope of Washington winemaking. Housed in a rustic-chic, red-doored barn, AniChe is a boutique winery that opened ...

In the sibling rivalry of Washington's two biggest wine ­labels, Columbia Crest is the little brother that has spent all its life proving itself. In 1978, when the company then known as American Wine ...

The 2000 Columbia Crest Grand Estate Columbia Valley Chardonnay is consistently one of the best values in, what appears to be, an ocean of well-priced chardonnays. I stress the word "consistently ...