Managing Editor, Wine Press Northwest

Eric Degerman is managing editor, wine judge and restaurant writer for Wine Press Northwest, a quarterly consumer magazine that was founded in 1998 and focuses on Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Idaho. He is online managing editor at the Tri-City (Wash.) Herald and lives in Richland, Wash., with Traci, his wife of 18 years, and their cat, Ichiro. His judging history includes the Northwest Wine Summit, the Grand Harvest Awards, the Long Beach Grand Cru, the Washington State Wine Competition, Canada’s Okanagan Fall Wine Festival and Oregon’s Greatest of the Grape. This will be his sixth consecutive year of judging at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.