At long last, Category 5 Cellars has opened their tasting room! We’ve been cheering them along from afar over the last year or so, keeping in touch via social media and dreaming of tasting their Albariño again. We were thrilled to be invited to their recent Grand Opening Weekend in the warehouse district here in Woodinville. I was astonished (and ...
I had stopped into J. Bookwalter Winery in Woodinville on several occasions, and had stocked up on their 2018 Readers Cabernet Sauvignon during many of Costco trips. Somehow though, I had never sat down on the patio for a full tasting!? I don’t know how that is possible, and I was seriously missing out because the patio is gorgeous. Carrie ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jen and I recently took advantage of her club membership at DeLille Cellars to partake in a wine tasting on the beautiful club-only third floor patio, on a beautiful sunny morning. (Yes, we ate big breakfasts and then began our wine drinking day at 11 am! Up with the birds, practically). After our tasting flight (which included Doyenne, ...
I have been craving Roussanne and Marsanne and trying to learn more about this varietal lately. The weather is perfect for sitting outside so I gathered a few bottles from Woodinville wineries and invited two friends over to enjoy the lineup with me on the backyard patio. Since we have been mostly cooped up in sweatpants for the past several ...
Carrie and I recently visited the newly opened Damsel Cellars tasting room and LOVED it! The new space is located right next to the old tasting room in Woodinville’s Artisan Hill District. It’s fabulous. We were thrilled to have a sneak peek of the Damsel tasting room and to chat with Owner/Winemaker Mari Womack. She was a video pro when ...
We were so thrilled to hear the latest news from JM Cellars that they are opening back up for wine tastings at their Woodinville and Maltby locations! The Maltby tasting room reopened under Snohomish County’s Phase 1.5 guidelines on June 13th. This weekend, June 20th and 21st, JM’s Woodinville tasting room will open. You can read more on Safe Start ...
During this challenging time, we’ve been staying safely at home, quarantining other than a few grocery store runs, and volunteering at the Woodinville Wine Industry Food Pantry and at EastWest Food Rescue. We’ve been keeping up with our wine industry friends via Facebook, virtual tastings, Zoom meetings, and in the new Facebook Messenger Rooms, but we miss being able to ...