Rob Griffin started the award-winning Richland winery with his wife Deborah Barnard in 1983, having moved to Washington state in the mid-1970s to begin working in the wine industry.
The James Beard Foundation has announced the semifinalists for its annual awards celebrating the top restaurants and bars, including many in the Pacific Northwest.
If passed, Washington would join Utah as the only state with a 0.05% blood alcohol concentration limit. Other states have considered similar legislation, buthaven’t passed it. Opponents argue the legislation, Senate Bill 5067, would elevate the liability risk for bars and other establishments that sell alcohol.