Rick Casqueiro

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  For Rick Casqueiro, harvest began Thursday morning.
  
  Casqueiro is head winemaker for Domaine Ste. Michelle, the sparkling wine operation for Ste. Michelle Wine Estates in Woodinville.Casqueiro has been making sparkling wine since 1978 and joined Domaine Ste. Michelle in 1996.This year, he will produce 323,000 cases of sparkling wine.All of his wine is made at Columbia Crest in Paterson.
  
  On Thursday, he was at Canoe Ridge Estate Vineyard, 10 miles west of Columbia Crest.A crew was hand-harvesting chardonnay for Luxe, a premium sparkling wine that retails for about $20, nearly twice as much as the winery's five other styles of sparkling wine.
  
  "You have to be very careful how you select vineyards for taste profiles," Casqueiro said.
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  Most wine grapes are harvested around 24 brix, but the grapes picked Thursday were about 17 brix, which is right where Casqueiro wants them.
  
  Casqueiro uses chardonnay and pinot noir, the two classic grape varieties employed to make champagne, the world's must famous sparkling wine.The pinot noir is grown at six vineyards in the Yakima Valley and will be harvested around Labor Day.
  
  Last year, Casqueiro started harvesting Aug. 15.He expects to be done about Sept. 20, which is in the middle of harvest for the rest of the state.

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  Some varieties close the season with high acid levels, for example, so Ringer has scheduled sparkling winemaker Rick Casqueiro of Domaine Ste. Michelle to discuss the potential for sparkling wine production from Puget Sound grapes.

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  Mmmmm?. — Rick Casqueiro, Winemaker
  
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  Speakers include Domaine St. Michelle's sparkling winemaker Rick Casqueiro, Extension enologist Jim Harbertson, WSU wine microbiologist Charles Edwards,Walla Walla Community College's Mike Moyer, plus winemakers from the Puget Sound Wine Growers Association and Eastern Washington.

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  Try substituting our Blanc de Blancs the next time you think about serving a Chardonnay.-- Rick Casqueiro, Winemaker

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  Mmmmm?. -- Rick Casqueiro, Winemaker

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  Rick Casqueiro, Winemaker

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  Crafted from premium European grape varieties grown in Washington State's Columbia Valley, Domaine Ste. Michelle winemaker Rick Casquiero follows the tradition of French winemakers before him using the classic méthode champenoise.The clean character of this Extra Dry showcases an appealing balance among several exotic fruit characteristics, including apricot, pear, guava and kiwi.

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  Rick Casquerio, who lives in Richland, joined Domaine Ste. Michelle a year ago and has nursed the new package from beginning to end at the champagne cellars in Paterson.
  
  Actually, the champagne cellars is a winery within a winery, using space at the cavernous Columbia Crest Winery.Casqueiro says that someday, it should have its own cellars, perhaps in Paterson, the Yakima Valley or somewhere else in the state.That probably won't happen for a year or two, he says.Domaine Ste. Michelle probably is the third- or fourth-largest winery in the state, shipping 300,000 cases this year from Paterson all over the world.
  
  It's a good product aimed at the same market as Korbel.
  
  Currently, all three sparklers are nonvintage, a cuvee brut - which means it has some wine from several years in the bottle - an extra dry and a blanc de blanc made from chardonnay.
  
  Chardonnay and pinot noir traditionally are the grapes used to make champagne.The term "champagne," according to the French, who guard it zealously, should be applied only to French sparkling wines that come from the Champagne region of France.

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