Friday, July 30, 2010

Tapteil at Zinful

Location: ZINFUL Panini Grill & Wine Bar, downtown Kennewick
Time: 5:00PM - 8:30pm, Wednesday, August 4th
Check it out on Facebook (Zinful's or Tapteil's)

Thursday, July 22, 2010

TAPTEIL EVENT, AUGUST 13, 6:30 pm


Wine &Hors d'oeuvre's Evening at Tapteil Winery in Benton City on FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 AT 6:30PM. Special entertainment by BLUE MOUNTAIN SPANISH SOUND.
Come celebrate our 1st release of W.W.W.Bella Vino!

Tapteil again has generously donated their site for our adult-only event again this year. It is located at the north end of Sunset Rd. in Benton City. For directions, go to www.tapteil.com
Click on Winery and then MAP.

Please bring an appetizer to share and if you are a sweet wine fan, please BYOB.
Tapteil has a dry Chardonnay, a Syrah, and 2 outstanding Cabernet's to choose from. Willowbrook residents, WOMEN WHO WINE and their guests can purchase their wines at the family discount of 30% off!
WILLOWBROOK COMMUNITY CLUB will provide the soft drinks and water bottles. Please come even if you don't imbibe..... We always have a fun group with WONDERFUL food. Invite your friends to carpool.
If you would like to donate $5 to help pay our musicians, that would be wonderful!

Wear some nice duds and bring a jacket (it gets chilly when the sun goes down). We may be taking pictures for our next vintage label. Women Who Wine~ bring a bottle of your Bella Vino to share, also.

Please RSVP to Gayle at 627-5579 or email gayleepie@charter.net

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Cooper Wine Company 6/15/10

Red Mountain Tour

A beautiful (cool & sunny) day in Red Mountain started with a tasting at Masquerade. We enjoyed ourselves so much, we forgot to take pictures! We have another excuse to go back again for more Sparkling Wine, Gewurztraminer, and Malbec (and hit a few golf balls while we're at it). Thanks to Bill & Jennifer Kimmerly for opening up just for us.


Our second stop was the new COOPER. Neil and D.B. Cooper greeted us outside and then showed us the new digs - all spiffed up and ready to show off his awesome wines. We can hardly wait until we can buy them.
Neil Cooper
Third stop was at Eve & Ed Shaw's Portrait Cellars. Ed was somewhere buying some new winery toys and missed out on a wonderful lunch and tasting. Eve sneaked us down into the cellar to try the newest Riesling and Cab that will be bottled in the next few weeks. We will want some of THAT, too!

Portrait Cellars

Our last stop was to Linda Andrew's Art & Glass Studio. We were in awe of all the techniques she uses. See for yourself in these photos. A very successful day in Red Mountain.....


Have fun on your vacations and we'll see you on August 13.






Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Don Carlo Vineyard

Don Carlo Vineyard, established in 2007 and located in Milton-Freewater, is owned and operated by Tim and Lori Kennedy.  Prior to owning the vineyard Tim made potato chips.....awesome potato chips.  In fact, Tim is the Tim in Tim's Cascade Chips!  I was quite excited to learn this because Tim's Chips have been my family's favorites for years.  And after tasting the Kennedy's wines, it's obvious they put as much love into their new endeavor as they did the last. 

                      
   
This picture of the vines being planted was very cleverly taken by Karen Sowers - it's actually a picture of a picture!  Looks real doesn't it? In the previous picture you can see Lori showing/explaining to Michelle the various stages of the vineyard's progress by using the pictures on the coffee table.  It is from one of these that Karen took her picture.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

We're on YouTube!


Here is Catie's video from our Walla Walla tour

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Petit Noirs Chocolates

   

Va Piano

Balboa

Balboa, a spur of the moment stop, is where we had lunch....Gayle called a few minutes before we descended to ask permission to have our picnic lunch in their tasting room - the weather was too cold to have it where we had originally planned. Not only were we welcomed, but they moved their bistro patio tables and chairs inside for us....all in about 5 minutes! This was a really fun stop and their wines were voted "fav of the day" by many. Thanks, guys!!
  

Saviah


Traditionally, lavendar is planted at the ends of the rows of grape vines to attract bees for pollenation and to ward off unwanted insects.


Wednesday, May 12, 2010