Q&A with winemaker, Tom Campbell
  1. How does it feel to be referred to as one of Washington’s wine legends?
    Old, it makes me feel old.
  2. How did you get started in the industry?
    It was an article in Time Magazine about Joe Heitz making a great Cabernet Sauvignon made from grapes grown from Martha’s Vineyard in Napa that directed me toward wine making and U C Davis.
  3. What keeps you hooked?
    Life.
  4. What’s your method or style of winemaking?
    Knowledge and free will.

  5. You create wonderful Washington wine, but live in Montana?
    Two sources of inspiration.
  6. What is your take on the 5 label concept of Woodhouse Family Cellars?
    It’s a beginning…
  7. Which is your favorite label?
    See # 10
  8. If you could create the perfect blend it would be…
    Perfect.
  9. Some have described your wine as “rhonestyle.” What are your thoughts on that?
    I think it is one of the many styles I enjoy and a current pleasure to explore.
  10. Favorite appellation?
    As a great diplomat once said, “ All my children are beautiful.”
  11. Where is the Washington wine industry headed?
    On to wine making history.
  12. What’s next for Woodhouse?
    Ask Bijal, Shinead, Kennedy and Hudson.
  13. Your favorite blend and what do you pair with it?
    See #10
  14. What wine are you having with dinner tonight?
    2000 Dussek and my 2004 experimental Montana Gewurztraminer.