Clearwater Canyon Cellars Blog

Are you stressing out about which wines you should serve with Thanksgiving dinner?  Well, Andy Perdue and Eric Degerman of Great Northwest Wine are helping you out this holiday season with some great ideas for wines to pair with your meal.  One of which is our 2014 Malbec, which just received a Gold medal at the Great Northwest Wine Invitational last month and was named ‘Best Malbec’ at the competition of nearly 600 wines that is the sole ‘invite only’ wine competition in the US. Pairing-wise, our Malbec goes great with cranberry sauce and stuffing!  The dark fruit character of…

Our wines will be featured at the 10th Annual Eagle Food & Wine Festival on Saturday, September 24th at the BanBury Golf Course in Eagle, Idaho. This event is benefitting the Idaho and Utah chapters of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Eagle Community Food Bank. Tickets are just $45! This event will feature local restaurants, wineries and also 10 Barrel Brewing Company. All wines will be paired with culinary delights from local chefs. Clearwater Canyon wines will be paired with hors d’ oeuvres from Jakers Bar & Grill. To find out more information and to purchase tickets, click here!

Our 2014 vintage is proving to be a winner! Great Northwest Wine recently reviewed and rated our 2014 Renaissance Red and 2014 Estate Syrah. They both received the Outstanding! rating, the highest rating given at Great Northwest Wine. Both of these wines are produced from Lewis-Clark Valley grown grapes. Great Northwest Wine has always been a huge supporter of Idaho wines. In an industry that has been so skeptical of Idaho wine, they have always helped prove the naysayers wrong! To read their review on 2014 Renaissance Red, click here. To read their review on 2014 Estate Syrah, click here….

There are so many exciting things happening right now at Clearwater Canyon! I’ll tell you a little story about one of those things… Back in May we decided to enter a couple of wines in a little wine competition called the San Francisco International Wine Competition. This competition is the largest and most prestigious international wine competition in the United States. We chose to enter our 2014 Phinny Hill Carmenère and our 2013 Selway. About a month later we were given unexpected news: Our Carmenère received a Silver medal and our Selway received a Double Gold! What’s the difference between…

Hello everyone! The Port of Lewiston is undergoing road construction at the moment. If you would like to visit us at the winery before we move up to Umiker Vineyard, here are the directions: Turn at the stoplight at 3rd Ave N (heading west) Continue on 3rd Ave N Turn right on 15th St N Then turn right onto 6th Ave N Drive around the ‘road closed’ sign and you will be at the winery!

We are featured in the current issue of Good Fruit Grower magazine! It is one of the best articles written to date about our new Lewis-Clark Valley AVA. It includes interviews with Coco and Karl, Jim Arnett (of Arnett Vineyards), and Alan Busacca, geologist author of our AVA petition. Good Fruit Grower is one of the most highly regarded magazines read by grape growers and enthusiasts alike. The full article is available to read here.

Our wines were featured in the June issue of Rand Sealey’s Review of Washington Wines!  Although we are an Idaho winery, our grapes are grown in both Idaho and Washington.  Below are the reviews that Rand did on some of our Spring releases.  The rest of our Spring releases will be featured in the July issue.  To subscribe to the Rand Sealey’s Review of Washington Wines, click here. From the Newest AVA:  Clearwater Canyon Cellars On May 20, the Lewis-Clark Valley became Idaho and Washington’s newest American Viticultural Area (AVA). The 306,658-acre AVA straddles the Washington-Idaho border, comprising an area surrounding Lewiston,…

Come and enjoy an evening with us June 9th at Richard’s Cafe Vicino in Boise!  James Beard Nominated Chef Richard Langston has created a menu of delicious courses to pair with our newly released wines. Menu 2015 Lochsa: Smoked Idaho sturgeon with lemon gastrique, Idaho Caviar cream 2014 Merlot: Local greens, La Quercia Coppa (lardons), Local cherries, goat cheese dressing 2014 Carmenere: Lamb meatballs spiced with coriander on local heirloom polenta topped with salsa Verde 2014 Petite Syrah: Soy and brown sugar glazed pork belly with roasted sesame carrots 2014 Malbec: Fresh local berries with prosecco zabaglione Price: $125.00 ~ Call Cafe…

Located on the Middle Fork of the Clearwater River, River Dance Lodge is the ultimate outdoor enthusiasts’ getaway on the Lewis-Clark Trail.  Their onsite restaurant, Syringa Café will be serving up two nights of wine-paired dinners as part of a two-night weekend package. Colter’s Creek Winery will be pouring wines for the dinner on Friday, April 29th and we, Clearwater Canyon Cellars, will be pour our wines paired with dinner on Saturday, April 30th.  Saturday activities include a guided hike up Canyon Creek to the site of the Kooskia Internment Camp, the first Japanese internment camp in the United States…

We will be co-hosting a dinner with Happy Day Catering on February 13!  Our wines will be paired with some delicious food.  We will even be featuring a very special wine that will be paired with dessert!  Tickets are $100 per person, which includes the wine pairings.  Seating is limited, so tickets must be purchased by Monday, February 8.  Tickets are being sold through Happy Day Catering.  Call 208.743.0179 to RSVP.  We hope to see you there!