Wine & Spirits Winery of the Year 2009

The Team

Want to know who's making your wine? Come check out the people behind some of the valley's most enjoyable wines.

The Winery

Tamarack Cellars was founded in 1998 by Ron and Jamie Coleman as the 14th winery in the Walla Walla Valley. Currently there are over 70 wineries in the Walla Walla Valley. The winery is dedicated to the production of small lot, hand-crafted wines from select vineyards of the Walla Walla Valley, Columbia Valley, Red Mountain, Horse Heaven Hills, Wahluke Slope and Yakima Valley appellations.

Ron Coleman

Ron serves as manager and winemaker of the winery that he founded in 1998. Located at the local airport in an old World War II Fire Station, he is the big man behind the scenes…

Danny

Danny Gordon

Danny Gordon is the Assistant Winemaker at Tamarack Cellars. His duties include the hands-on daily winemaking, special events participation and outside sales…

Sandy Kleck

Sandy Kleck is a graduate of the Center for Enology & Viticulture in Walla Walla, and has worked in the wine industry since 1991.  She manages public relations, direct sales, wine club sales, and assists Danny with blending and lab trials. 

Martin Ibarra

Martin Ibarra is the Cellar Manager of Tamarack Cellars. Martin helps Dan Gordon, the Assistant Winemaker, with the daily hands-on wine work and maintaining the winery grounds…

2006 Cabernet Sauvignon: Wine Enthusiast

This stylish Cab is loaded with black olive and black fruits, all with a leafy edge. Still young tannic and a bit hard, it has good clean, varietal character and a good length.

2006 Merlot: Wine & Spirits

This one has a cinnamon stick spiciness that adds depth and savor to the sweet fruit. The aromas are autumnal, with the smoky scent of pine, and it's ripe black cherry flavor gains shape and contour from the fine nutskin tannins.

2005 Du Brul Vineyard Reserve: Wine Advocate

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

It displays an enticing bouquet of balsam wood, spice box, pencil lead, black currant and blackberry. Medium bodied on the palette, it is a ripe, dense, savory, plush effort

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