We are beyond excited about Chateau Ste. Michelle’s new private winery experience offerings here in Woodinville wine country! On Sunday, we’re renting a luxury cabana for a four-hour wine tasting experience for us and just three of our other friends. It’s a splurge, but we’re worth it! (Chateau Ste. Michelle did not comp us for the cabana, we paid with ...

Everywhere I’ve gone out to eat in Woodinville lately, I’ve been asking the restaurant owners and servers what they’d like our readers to know about the current restaurant situation in our city. Our Washington State governor recently closed the indoor spaces of bars, wineries, breweries and distilleries; and made a new regulation that people from different households can not sit ...

You’re trying to stay connected to your winery’s fans, customers and club members during this difficult time. You’ve done countless virtual tastings, video winemaker interviews, IG Lives, Facebook Lives, and private Zoom events for your wine club members. You might have done some vineyard tours, bottling day videos, and virtual winery tours. Are your fans, months into the pandemic, getting ...

Each week I have been inviting two or three wine industry friends over to my backyard for a careful social distanced wine tasting. I open six or seven bottles of Woodinville or Lake Chelan wine and each guest gets to re-cork and take home a couple bottles at the end of the night. I haven’t been able to really serve ...

  Everywhere I’ve gone wine tasting in Woodinville lately, I’ve been asking the winemakers and tasting room managers what they’d like our readers to know about the current wine tasting situation here. Our Washington State governor recently closed the indoor spaces of bars, wineries, breweries and distilleries. They can only serve customers outdoors, on patios, and via curbside pickup – ...

The other day I was picking up my “Midsummer White” purchase at the curbside pickup at Chateau Ste. Michelle, when suddenly my eye was drawn to their fetching little shop stand. You can understand how tempting everything was, and the Chateau employees were more than happy to upsell me some wine bottles. (They are too good at their job!) I ...

  On Friday (August 31st) Airfield Estates will release their first sparkling wine, a Blanc de Blancs. This wine is an estate grown 100% Chardonnay from the Yakima Valley AVA here in Washington State. Guess what I’m going to be tasting during my Sunday Brunch this weekend? You can shop for a bottle of Airfield Estates’ sparkling wine via curbside ...

When we heard that there was a new tasting room opening up (in the space previously held by Damsel Cellars ), Carrie reached out to Stephanie and Shawn from Glacier View Cellars and we stopped in for a tour and wine tasting. Glacier View Cellars is a vegetarian winery, which we had not heard before here in Woodinville! Carrie is ...

This afternoon, Governor Inslee announced changes to Washington State’s phased openings. If I am reading his statement right, it looks like wineries, tasting rooms and bars are closed to indoor service. As of July 30, they can only serve alcohol outside on patios (which requires special licensing from the state liquor board). Restaurants and Bars Indoor dining is limited to ...

It’s been so lovely – finally! – here in my backyard near Seattle in the afternoons (we’ve had an unusual amount of rain and non-sunny days this summer, sigh). I’ve hosted a couple of very careful social distancing wine tasting parties with just two or three other friends from the local Woodinville wine industry scene. We sit far apart in ...