You don’t want to leave Quilceda Creek without tasting the iconic Columbia Valley cabernet sauvignon, a fleshy, hedonistically dark-fruited expression of the grape.
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(Note: Tours are unavailable at time of update visitors can email the winery for more information.) Alex’s son Paul serves as winemaker today. It was through visits with his uncle that Alex Golitzin learned his craft and attained the encouragement to launch his own project, which would go on to become one of Washington’s most highly sought after sources of cabernet sauvignon. Tchelistcheff, whose work focused primarily in California, first came to Washington as a consultant for Chateau Ste. Alex was born into wine royalty, the nephew of André Tchelistcheff, the most influential winemaker in 20th-century America.
The winery was founded in 1978 by Alex and Jeanette Golitzin, who vinified their first wine the following year. Quilceda Creek has long been regarded in the highest echelon of Washington wines.
We love the lakeside Eritage Resort six miles north of Walla Walla, set among 300 acres of wheat fields and vineyards. The Pedestal merlot, crafted by Bordelais legend Michel Rolland, demonstrates remarkable polish, with its velvety, plummy warmth. Long Shadows’s Poet’s Leap riesling, made by German winemaker Armin Diel of Schlossgut Diel, is one of America’s most consistent and age-worthy examples of the grape, as well as an incredible value (at around $20 a bottle). Long Shadows operates two tasting rooms (with vineyards in several parts of the Columbia Valley)-one conveniently close to Seattle in Woodinville, and the other in Walla Walla, which is decorated with glassworks by famed native Washington sculptor Dale Chihuly. Winemaker and viticulturalist Gilles Nicault holds down the fort in Washington year round, to ensure the grapes are grown and the wines are vinified to meet each winemaker’s specifications. Accordingly, the Long Shadows portfolio offers seven wines, made by seven different winemakers hailing from the Napa Valley to Tuscany, Australia to Bordeaux. In 2003, Allen Shoup began the Long Shadows project, in which iconic winemakers from around the globe focus on their signature grape varieties, as produced with Washington fruit. Long Shadows gathers some of the wine world’s biggest talents under the umbrella of a single label. Whether in Woodinville or deep in wine country, here are six of the top wineries to visit in Washington State. An easy trek from the city by car, Woodinville offers the opportunity to taste wines from across the state (including its most remote locales), all in one compact town. Many Washington wineries offer tastings on site, but several have also set up shop in the town of Woodinville, part of the Puget Sound viticultural area, roughly 30 minutes northeast of Seattle. The largest and most classic wine region, however, is the Columbia Valley, which traverses the Oregon border and includes several important sub-appellations, such as Walla Walla, Yakima Valley, and Horse Heaven Hills, among others. Washington cultivates grapes-with cabernet sauvignon, merlot, syrah, riesling, and chardonnay leading the charge-in several pockets across the state, including around the banks of Puget Sound and the trendy, emerging Columbia Gorge region.
Michelle, and Leonetti, which helped forge a path to Washington’s current status of harboring one of the country’s most dynamic fine wine industries. The movement gradually rebounded post-Prohibition, starting in the mid-20th century, with pioneering and still-in-production labels, such as Quilceda Creek, Chateau Ste. By the time an early Prohibition struck the Evergreen State in 1916, Washington had already nursed a burgeoning wine industry, supported by its sizeable population of European immigrants, many from wine-loving countries like Italy, France, and Germany. Washington’s history of grape growing dates back to 1825, when the Hudson’s Bay Company planted vines at Fort Vancouver (now a National Historic Site, set across the river from Portland in vineyard-heavy Oregon).
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