2011 Events

January 10 from 11 to 3. Bring a Spanish Tapas, a bottle of Spanish Wine (white or red and wrapped in foil) and your own wine glass (or 2) to paint. We'll have a very loose, informal aroma class with our favorite Wine Woman, Carol. Bring a notepad to take notes.

Lisa Days house in W. Richland. 2 spaces left.

January 15. Kestrel Barrel Room ( behind the tasting room), Prosser. Blending party with John Gabriel at 1:30pm. This will be limited to those that have already pre-paid for their cases.

4 cases left.

FEB. 12~ Bottling @ 1:30 in the Kestrel Barrel room.

February 10 ~ Sandi Whistler is hosting this event in her home in W. Richland. Red wine and chocolate theme (or anything pertaining to Valentine's Day)

February 15 & 17 Mosaic Class at Lisa Day's. Must sign up ahead of time. More details to come.

March 8, Barnard Griffin Tasting, 11am, Richland. No charge, but please purchase some wine. They are letting us bring our appetizers and desserts into their winery. Barnard Griffin has been a regular winner in our WWW blind tastings. BRAVO!

"Down Under" tasting with Alice from Shingleback and Red Knot by Precept Wine Brands. TBA

Results from the Bordeaux tasting

25 WWW showed up at Miss Charlenes house for a day of food, wine, & Apres Vin products. That was YUMMY, fun and educational all at the same time. THANK YOU ERIC AND LORI!!!

After carefully tasting all 15 wines, the winners were:

#1 Mouton Cadet Rothschild

#2 Barnard Griffin Cab/Merlot Blend

#3 Smasne Cellars County Line

2009 Bordeaux Orders

We are ready to start taking orders for your WWW 2009 Bordeaux wine. We need to buy 25 cases for one barrel of wine. With 76 WWW members, we may run out! 1st come, 1st serve.....

As of January 5th, we have 4 cases left.

John says that the grapes have all come the Horse Heaven Hills. The price is $18 per bottle and $216. per case. Please send me your personal check made out to JOHN J. GABRIEL in the amount of $216. before January 8th to assure your case. We will give John your check, collect the tax balance and the $3. for your labels at the blending party on January 15. If you would like to split a case with a friend, that will be fine, but still send me one check and include both your names for our records. We are only selling cases of 12, not by the bottle.

Email Gayle if you need the address for mailing.

Bordeaux Tasting and Apres Vin

Tuesday, December 7th is our next event. We will be meeting at Miss Charlene's house in South Richland to taste test some Bordeaux blends for our next vintage. The folks from Apres Vin will be there to give us a taste of their wonderful grapeseed oils, too. As always, bring an appetizer to share. More info to come in your next email.

Click on the title above to see more about Apres Vin.

Blending Day

We have a definite date to blend our next wine. It's Saturday, January 15. More news to come...

Bubbly Day

Our bubbly tasting was a HUGE success! Over 24 WWW showed up at Miss Vicky's home armed with great food and a disguised bottle to try. Can you imagine the work it takes to try 24 bottles?!

Thanks to Jan for making our score sheets and tallying the winners. They are:

1st Place~ Cooks Spumante (are you kidding me?!! $3. ??)

2nd Place ~ Barefoot Bubbly Moscato Spumante (Green label)

3rd Place ~ Shingleback Black Bubbles Sparkling Shiraz

4th Place ~ Martini & Rossi Asti Spumante

5th Place ~ Segura Viudas Brut Reserva

6th Place ~ Adriano Adami Prosecco

And a BIG thank you goes to Miss Vicky for hosting in her home~ she did an awesome job!

Some great food

How very surprised we all were to find out what our WWW favorite champagne was :)

TUESDAY, November 9

Tuesday, Nov. 9, 11am, at Vicki's. Theme is blind tasting Sparkling Wine, Champagne, or Prosecco. Bring an appetizer to share (plus the recipe) and your own champagne glass or flute. We will be brainstorming our next label. Bring ideas with you. RSVP to Gayle.

October 5th, Walla Walla Adventure

Tuesday, October 5th is our next outing. The plan is to go to Walla Walla to an airport winery, Revelry. http://www.revelrywines.com/

No tasting fees and all wines under $20 (except for a Reserve). You will love Jared and his wines. He has a bordeaux blend with a lot of Cab Franc that you will want to try (and maybe we can imitate his blend in our next vintage?). If we have time, we can hit Tamarac or Russell Creek.

Lunch @ noon is potluck at Catie's new store (we get to be the first for a soft opening:>). You can bring your own dish or pick one up next door at http://www.salumierecesario.com/

Bon Appetit'......

Zillah Tour

Thirteen women showed up at Starbucky's Thursday morning. I'm sure the patrons wondered what was going on in the parking lot- a Chinese Fire Drill? Anyway, we headed to CULTURA where we had the BEST experience tasting of the day. We all loved Sarah and Tad, their darling tasting room, BATHROOM- OMG!, and the big barrel room full of French Oak Barrels (and one token Hungarian). My personal favorite was the Cab Franc.

We loaded up the 3 cars and caravaned up to Silver Lake. We were supposed to have lunch there, but our plans quickly changed. 'Nuf said. We did get some great ideas for winter crafts and for our next label.

Drove back down the road to Maison De Padgett. The ladies there were super sweet and the gardens were to die for! Cindy, you missed a good garden! We quickly unpacked our picnic and went inside to buy a glass of wine to have with lunch. The girls did an amazing job once again with all the awesome goodies. Maison's specialties are Muscats and Ports. I liked the one red- the Sangiovese.

We took a vote whether to go to Hyatt or up to the Bed & Breakfast with the Te-Pee's and they voted for the winery. We'll have to go back to see those again.

I believe that the Women Who Wine now have palate's to distinguish Rattlesnake Hills/ Yakima Valley terroir

	( the combination of factors, including soil, climate,and environment, that gives a wine its distinctive character)
[literally: soil]

from other Washington AVA's.

Please put Oct. 5th on your calendars for the next outing. We are going to have a PRIVATE soiree at Catie McIntyre's "Wild Woman of Walla Walla" new wine store! Try to say that fast!

Catch the Crush

Here is a list of participants and what they are offering. Click on the heading to get the link.