Olympic Cellars, Horse Heaven Hills (Washington) Lemberger 2015

 This grape variety, most widely known as Blaufrankisch from the excellent renditions made in Burgenland in Austria, has shown that it can also do very well in the USA’s Pacific Northwest.  As in this case, which is a light- to medium-bodied wine with fresh red-toned fruit, a beam of bright acidity, and unobtrusively fine-grained tannin.  I can imagine no way to interpret the proprietary name than as a recommendation to pair this with Dungeness crab, which could conceivably work, given the wine’s refreshing and nimble character.  In any case, this possible pairing is certainly testable, and I’d very much like to put it to the test.  A Double Gold award winner at the 2018 Toast of the Coast Wine Competition.