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The Best Boozy Beverage Trails (That You Don’t Know About)

September 26, 2024

Idaho has been on the come-up as a wine destination for years now, thanks to its auspicious terroir. Winemaking there is progressive — women run close to 50% of the 70+ wineries and cideries — and the vineyards are set in some of the most breathtaking natural landscapes in the world. 

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Fifty Grande – Where To Go In September

August 12, 2024

September travel is defined by the Labor Day long weekend, which this year falls on September 2. Sleeping in on a Monday is the best part of the holiday, to be sure, but you can make the late morning that much better by waking up in a cool new place (one where your boss doesn’t know to look for you).

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FORBES – Why The Idaho Wine Industry Is Growing Right Now

July 29, 2024

If you are seeking a state where you can enjoy an outdoor vacation and drink award-winning wine, then Idaho should be on your radar. Though most people think of Idaho as a place to go hiking and camping amongst breathtaking mountains and lakes, rafting down wild rivers, or skiing at Sun Valley in the winter months, in the past two decades Idaho has been rapidly expanding its wine industry.

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KTVB – Wine industry continues to grow in Idaho

BOISE, Idaho — June is Idaho Wine and Cider Month, and wineries across the state are hosting events to celebrate.

In 2022, the wine industry had a $314 million impact, which was a 50% increase, according to the Idaho Wine Commission. In addition, 900 thousand people visited an Idaho winery that year.

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Idaho Press – ‘Savor’ Idaho’s wine, cider industries

June 3, 2024

Raise a glass to Idaho’s wine industry. Together, our state’s cideries and wineries — and bars, restaurants, tasting rooms and related events — cups runneth over. In 2022 alone, the industry brought in $314 million — that’s a 50% increase over five years, according to a recent economic impact study conducted on behalf of the Idaho Wine Commission. In addition, 890,000 Idaho tourists incorporated a winery or tasting room trip into their itinerary and spent more than $173 million on local business and the wine and cider industry combined added more than 3,000 jobs.

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Spoken Wines –

May 17, 2024

Idaho’s Best Kept Secret – Hells Canyon Winery

Visit the Wild West and meet Hells Canyon Winery, one of the oldest in the Pacific Northwest of North America making wines that rival the best in the West. Yes, in Idaho!! A perfect terroir produces an intense, powerful, complex Cabernet Sauvignon, while over 40 year-old vines are the secret to a crisp, vibrant old world style Chardonnay. Meet a culinary chef turned winemaker after he and his wife traveled to France in the 70s, came back and planted, now, one of the oldest vineyards in Idaho.

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Spoken Wines – From Ellis Island to Idaho Vines: A Family’s Journey of Perseverance and Passion

From Ellis Island to the foothills of Idaho, the story of Rolling Hills Vineyard is a multigenerational journey that started three generations ago in the Old World and came to fruition in Idaho. It is of a family working together as one to pursue their dream. When they saw this old vineyard on this beautiful property in the foothills north of Boise, Idaho that needed rehabilitation they all – were all in! Mark and Lori Pasculli purchased a neglected Cabernet Franc vineyard in the Eagle Foothills in 2016. Two vintages later their estate Cab Franc earned a Double Platinum and 96 points from Great Northwest Wine in 2021.

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Great Northwest Wine – Walla Walla Community College Hires Idaho Winemaker Martin Fujishin As Program Director

May 2, 2024

Martin Fujishin, one of the Snake River Valley’s top winemakers and a sustainably minded grapegrower, has been hired as the director of enology and viticulture at Walla Walla Community College.

Fujishin, 45, will be the ninth executive director in the program’s 24-year history. He starts June 3 on the Tausick Way campus and home to College Cellars of Walla Walla.

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