Start your weekend off right with us! YOGA + WINE at Gard Vintners Woodinville Once per month!! 10:30 a.m.-noon Join Yoga Uncorked for a ALL LEVELS Yoga class followed by Wine! This class will be a mixture of hatha and vinyasa postures to get your body moving, flowing, and ready to start your weekend off right! After class you can sit down and relax with your Gard … [Read more...] about Yoga and Wine at Gard Vintners in Woodinville
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Wine Country Celebrations Vintners Dinner at Fiction @ J. Bookwalter
Meet, mingle, and dine with local host J. Bookwalter Wines, as well as winemakers from Alexandria Nicole Cellars and Sagemoor Vineyards in an evening full of delicious food and wine. Guests will enjoy a patio reception with dining taking place in the barrel room. Wines will be paired with each course prepared by the team at the award-winning Fiction restaurant, and there … [Read more...] about Wine Country Celebrations Vintners Dinner at Fiction @ J. Bookwalter
Thoughtful winemaking, tarot card define Three of Cups
WOODINVILLE, Wash. — When Mike Metheny, Lisa Swei and a bottle of wine first crossed paths in 2005, the results might be described as perfectly uneventful. Both were working on Microsoft’s MSN product team in Redmond, Wash. Metheny had been dabbling in home winemaking for a few vintages and gave a bottle to Swei, who had considered getting in on the ground floor of a … [Read more...] about Thoughtful winemaking, tarot card define Three of Cups
Michael Florentino Cellars 2020 Albariño, Yakima Valley • $20
Woodinville winemaker Brad Sherman focuses his eponymous brand on Bordeaux varieties, but he and Jared Whelchel work with Italian and Spanish varieties under the Michael Florentino Cellars label. Albariño is an ideal fit and their flair with it is apparent. It all starts with Crawford Vineyards near Prosser, Wash. In the cellar, 75% of the lot is fermented in stainless steel … [Read more...] about Michael Florentino Cellars 2020 Albariño, Yakima Valley • $20
VineLine Dispatches from Harvest 2019
Harvest 2019 is running full steam. Throughout the Great Northwest wine community, grapes are being picked, transported, crushed and stored. It’s the height of activity so where better to send photojournalist Richard Duval but to a different region each week to capture slices of this most frantic of seasons. Last week, he roamed the Yakima Valley and Red Mountain for … [Read more...] about VineLine Dispatches from Harvest 2019