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Red Mountain AVA Event Notice - 2015 Vintners in the Vineyard This Weekend @RedMtnAVA

Dear Friends,

Sorry for the late notice about this stellar event on Red Mountain at Col Solare Winery. The 2015 Vintners in the Vineyard is this weekend! (This event was formerly known as Revelry on Red Mountain and the name change caught me off guard). There is still time to purchase tickets.

The view south from Col Solare Winery, Red Mountain AVA.

Red Mountain is a gem of an AVA blessed with wonderful sun exposure, perfect soil for growing the best wine grapes in the world and a magnet for attracting talented winemakers. This translates to wines of great depth and character. This event is your opportunity to learn and experience Red Mountain wines. You are being called to Vintners in the Vineyard. The event name has changed, but the venue and wines are all about Red Mountain AVA. 

Delicious wines, great food.
Details follow:

This Saturday night, join your favorite Red Mountain AVA Alliance winemaker and help raise funds for the Auction of Washington Wine.

Wonderful company sharing wonderful wines.

Converse with the winemakers while tasting exquisite wines, noshing on delicious appetizers, and reveling in the sweeping views of Red Mountain’s rolling hills and breathtaking vineyards.

Award winning High Tower Cellars pouring.

Who: Auction of Washington Wines
What: Vintners in the Vineyard
When: Saturday, June 6th @ 6:00pm
Where: Col Solare Winery, Red Moutain
Why: Proceeds benefit WSU Viticulture and Enology Program and the Seattle
Children’s Hospital

Tickets: http://wawine.auctionreg.org/registration
Saturday Night Event: $95.00 per person
Saturday Night Shuttle: $25.00 per person


Event Sponsors:

Col Solare Winery


Olive Catering

Red Mountain AVA Alliance

Event Menu

 ~Boarded appetizers~

artisan domestic and imported cheeses, house crackers, grapes, dried fruit, cured artisan meats, marinated olives, roasted peppers, fresh cut and marinated crudite vegetables, assorted dips and spreads, artisan house baked breads &  house crackers, truffled caprese skewers, truffled macaroni and cheese, herbed bread crumbs, seared amberjack, sweet red chili, minted English peas, coconut carrot puree, barbeque prawn cocktail, chimichurri barbeque, sweet potato shoestrings
red chili calamari, black risotto, chicken satay, medjool date jam, prosciutto d'Parma, buttermilk fried quail, cardamon brown butter, braised wagyu brisket, bleu d'Auvergne, cherry chutney.


~Boarded sweets~

seasonal fruit and nut bars, cheesecake bites, brownies and handmade chocolates.

Delights of Olive Catering.
Beneficiaries:
Seattle Childrens Hospital
WSU Viticulture and Enology Program

Ambassador Wines pouring.
Participating Wineries

  • AMBASSADOR WINES OF WASHINGTON
  • BAER WINERY
  • CHINOOK WINES
  • COL SOLARE
  • COOPER WINE COMPANY
  • CORVUS CELLARS
  • DELILLE CELLARS
  • FRICHETTE WINERY
  • GAMACHE VINTNERS
  • GORDON ESTATE
  • GUARDIAN CELLARS
  • HAMILTON CELLARS
  • HENRY EARL ESTATE WINES
  • HIGHTOWER CELLARS
  • J. BOOKWALTER WINERY
  • LAWRELIN WINE CELLARS
  • MONTESCARLATTO ESTATE
  • SEVEN HILLS WINERY
  • TAPTEIL VINEYARD WINERY
  • UPCHURCH VINEYARDS
  • WSU BLENDED LEARNING
J. Bookwalter Winery will be pouring.


Sensory sensations.
Come for the wine, stay for the Red Mountain sunset.

*Note; Check out all Auction of Washington Wine events at: http://www.auctionofwashingtonwines.org/events/

Cheers!
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