How do you cast a long shadow in the wine business? Start by bringing the world’s foremost winemakers to the Columbia Valley in Washington state, offer them the best grapes the appellation has to offer and then stand back.

That’s exactly the vision wine maven Allen Shoup had in mind when he created the Long Shadow project several years ago when he assembled a “dream team” of winemakers and put them to work making a specific style of wine they were each known for. And what a team he assembled; Randy Dunn from Napa, Michel Rolland from Bordeaux, Phillipe Melka from Napa and John Duval from Australia, just to name a few, have come together to share Shoup’s goal of producing the best wines possible from the finest grapes available in Washington state.