Eric Degerman is president/CEO for Great Northwest Wine — an award-winning news website that covers the wine industry of Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Idaho — and a featured writer for Pacific Northwest Golfer magazine. He co-founded Wine Press Northwest magazine in 1998 and resigned from the Tri-City (Wash.) Herald in 2012 to launch Great Northwest Wine with Andy Perdue. Eric lives in Richland, Wash., with his wife, Traci. This will be his 13th consecutive year of judging at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. For more information on Great Northwest Wine, go to: www.Greatnorthwestwine.com