I Eat, I Drink, I Travel
Wine and Winery Events
A lot of pick ups this weekend… so I lot of tasting is about to happen. On the slate this weekend for pick ups and tastings:
Ancestry
Kevin White
Three of Cups
I feel like I have picks up at Elevation also.
While in Artisan Hill, I need to hit a couple of other places to see what is new.
Where you hitting this weekend?
Let’s connect and drink some wine together!
It is Spring Wine Release season and if you are a Cork Dork, this is one the best times of the year!
It is also a hard period on the check book if you are in a lot of clubs (which I am.. OUCH)
My top releases I look forward to in Woodinville:
Kevin White
Col Solare
Passing Time
Efeste (a few weeks ago)
Cascade Cliffs (a few weeks ago)
and a half dozen others…
Have favourite wineries you look forward too? Let me know and lets go hit them!
See you in Woodinville this weekend!
As we move into Spring, I am looking forward to getting back out to the wineries. I have been very active on my IG (see the side bar), but I have not been that inspired to post here. As things loosen up, as wineries reopen, as releases happen, I plan to be there.
Tasting through Woodinville is still the goal, year after year, and I will get back on track.
I have added a new section to my journey, a spiritual one, if you are at all Spiritual, check it out. Its my journey through a specific period.
Lets get back out to the wineries to taste and have some fun in 2021!
What an insane few weeks and likely another month or two. So Wine Tasting rooms are closed, that is putting a dent in my “Hit Them All” quest in Woodinville.
Hit Them All was going great. I had completed Artisan Hill, and was moving to the top of the Warehouse District. I will try and post my Artisan Hill highlights in a bit.
My day job is deemed an essential service, but the weekend trips to the Wine country obviously on hold. LUCKILY I was pretty stocked up. So the tasting at some level has continued.
Pulling out some older bottles that I had not got too yet, like the 2013 Roza Hills Cab’s, a six bottle collection. Five bottles are each from a different block in the same vineyard, and the sixth is a blend of those five. So far GREAT wines.
I also have a Kevin White vert I will get into in a week or so.
Had some Van Camp older bottled that Jim and I did some trades on, I drank though, maybe have one bottle left. Just had the 2015 Cab, was very solid.
I have a lot of older Efeste Big Papa and Tough Guy… Cannot wait for those.
Will be trying all of those as this lock down goes on, so I will def be on the hunt for new wines when we are able to get back out!
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What has been tasting good?
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Stay safe! Drink Wine!
Had a great night at the Snohomish Wine Walk last night pouring with Jim VanCamp from https://www.vancampcellars.com/
It was a last minute addition for me, so I was not prepared to even go to the Walk. We stopped by VanCamp to have a glass and he was packing up to go, so I asked if he needed help… he did, so I poured with him.
Met a ton of people, talked about wine with everyone. Had a lot of fun.
Next time I will try and make sure I have cards to give out so we can do Winery Meetups in the future!
THANK YOU Jim for letting me help you!
So I have said for about 4 years now that I hit every winery in Woodinville atleast once per year… Likely true, or 95% true ?
I am sure I have missed someone in this Hit Them All quest.
So I started a new quest (modified quest) in July 2019. I picked a Wine District, picked a starting point and am systematically working through Woodinville, logging every winery as I do it. Hoping to set up my own interactive map of the areas so that wineries could be clicked on taking you to my write up and links to their pages, or something. Still a lot to work out on how I do that.
What I will have, eventually, is my tasting notes and thoughts about the wineries. I have hit about 20 so far, trying to do 3-5 a weekend, at least 10 a month, but as winter comes, I will step it up.
So I started with Artisan Hill at the bottom and am currently working up the hill. This weekend, I made it to the main complex in Artisan Hill, the top of the hill. How to work through those. After that, Warehouse is next, satrting at the bottom of the hill and working up.
That is my plan, my Quest for Woodinville in 2019/2020 – Make sure I Hit Them All.
What are your favourite wineries in Woodinville? Lets connect and hit some together!