Greg Powers knows viticulture and enology from the ground up and was manager for the family estate vineyard before taking on winemaker duties. Melissa Hansen Greg Powers, winemaker for Washington State’s largest organic winery, didn’t initially make organic wines for Badger Mountain Vineyard winery, even though the grapes were from his family’s certified organic estate vineyard. ­Taking the plunge to make sulfite-free wines in the early 1990s was a scary business venture, no matter how dedicated one might be to the organic cause. “We were scared to death to do organic, sulfite-free wines,” he said. “When we first started the […]