For the most part, my history with wine is probably typical for someone from the Midwest.
Bill鈥檚 Tasting Room in Prosser is like a time machine. Walk through the doors and you鈥檙e back in the 1960s with a jukebox, shuffleboard table, and walls adorned with photos of the 鈥淩at Pack鈥 and Marilyn Monroe. Often, you鈥檒l find Bill Jenkin, the mastermind of the establishment, dropping by …
Washington state is one of the world鈥檚 great wine-growing regions. We are the second-largest premium wine producer in the United States, with more than 900 wineries and 350 grape growers. Only California has more. We鈥檝e come a long way since 1981, when there were only 19 wineries in the enti…
鈥淣ever the twain shall meet.鈥 This line from Rudyard Kipling鈥檚 poem, 鈥淭he Ballad of East and West,鈥 comes to mind when considering the life of a winemaker and wine grape grower. Those two jobs require an entirely different skillset, and excelling at one profession does not guarantee you can …
Tradition. It鈥檚 a word that conjures up many feelings and emotions. At the core, the word means 鈥渢ransmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation.鈥 And no word could be more fitting when describing J. Bell Cellars in Zillah.
The new C么te Bonneville tasting room in Sunnyside features vintage wine in a vintage building, in beautiful light-filled rooms rich with flavors and history. It was built in 1911 as a train station, and thousands of travelers flowed through it until trains fell out of favor and it sat empty …
I had dinner with a girlfriend a few weeks ago and we spent half the evening lamenting our respective gardens, swapping ideas on the benefits and challenges of raised beds, composting, and why the heck we can鈥檛 seem to get carrots to grow. Seriously, why are carrots so hard? I can grow a pot…
As he tools down the road in his 29-passenger bus, Eric Miller cultivates enthusiasm and interest for Yakima Wine Country.
Planting a vineyard, growing grapes and making wine sounds dreamy, doesn鈥檛 it? But when you hear Kyle Welch鈥檚 story of what it takes to make wine 鈥 it may drop off your bucket list. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not as simple as putting a stick in the ground, sitting back and watching it grow,鈥 says Welch, winemake…
Vigneron Gary Cox started Cox Canyon Vineyards and Ellensburg Canyon Winery in 1999 with a long-term goal of environmental sustainability, becoming the first sustainable vineyard and winery in Kittitas County. A vineyard, after all, can have a lifespan of 120 years. The oldest known vine in …
The new C么te Bonneville tasting room in Sunnyside features vintage wine in a vintage building, in beautiful light-filled rooms rich with flavors and history. It was built in 1911 as a train station, and thousands of travelers flowed through it until trains fell out of favor and it sat empty …
I had dinner with a girlfriend a few weeks ago and we spent half the evening lamenting our respective gardens, swapping ideas on the benefits and challenges of raised beds, composting, and why the heck we can鈥檛 seem to get carrots to grow. Seriously, why are carrots so hard? I can grow a pot…
As he tools down the road in his 29-passenger bus, Eric Miller cultivates enthusiasm and interest for Yakima Wine Country.
Planting a vineyard, growing grapes and making wine sounds dreamy, doesn鈥檛 it? But when you hear Kyle Welch鈥檚 story of what it takes to make wine 鈥 it may drop off your bucket list. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not as simple as putting a stick in the ground, sitting back and watching it grow,鈥 says Welch, winemake…
Vigneron Gary Cox started Cox Canyon Vineyards and Ellensburg Canyon Winery in 1999 with a long-term goal of environmental sustainability, becoming the first sustainable vineyard and winery in Kittitas County. A vineyard, after all, can have a lifespan of 120 years. The oldest known vine in …
What do you get when you combine great soil, proper temperatures and precipitation? You get the 黑料福利社 American Viticulture Area (AVA) 鈥 a hotbed for growing some of the best wine grapes in the world.
Emptying a bottle of luscious 黑料福利社 wine was the easiest part of this DIY bird feeder project. The hardest part was drilling two holes in the bottle to dispense the seeds. With a little practice, that part becomes almost as easy. Before you start, watch a few YouTube videos on drilli…
What do you do when you need to promote your industry to the masses, but know you can鈥檛 do it on your own? You invite your competition to participate. That鈥檚 the simple answer to the question of how Craft Beverage Yakima came into existence.
Fall in the 黑料福利社 is a gorgeous time of year to go wine tasting. The days are warm and sunny and the nights cool off to crisp perfection. Vines trail along their trellises, sagging under the weight of nearly ripe bunches of wine grapes everywhere you look. Fresh produce abounds as fa…
Owner of Stems, Brad Baldwin appeared surprisingly relaxed for a man that had withstood an onslaught of wine tourists invading the 黑料福利社 for the annual Red Wine and Chocolate weekend. On top of that, he helped with the kick-off event, 鈥淪ecret Crush,鈥 at the Yakima Country Club put on…
After enjoying your favorite bottle or bottles of wine, the fun doesn鈥檛 have to stop there! Instead of tossing out those empty bottles and corks think about keeping them and finding a new use for them. You don鈥檛 have to be extremely crafty to pull these off. Check out just a few of the easy …