William Pollard Jr | aka: Wild 4 Washington Wine

Can you really find good Washington wines at reasonable prices? Last week I was snowed in for three days. My little car had a tough time on the icy roads, so I figured it was safer for my son and I to stay home. On the weekend my wife took us out in her SUV to run errands. Powering through snow and slush, we headed for the local grocer to stock up on supplies. My priority on our outing was to bring home wine to prevent me from raiding our home cellar. I'm saving most of those bottles for special occasions. Of the wines we purchased, I found three reasonably priced, locally produced, red wines. Two of the wines were priced at $10.99 and one was priced at $8.99. The prices were reasonable, but how did they taste? 2007 Powers Merlot 2007 Merlot is just one of many excellent wines by Powers Winery. The first wine I enjoyed was the Powers Winery 2007 Merlot. Powers is about a 10 minute drive from my home, so they are very local to me.  Bill Powers and his family have been crafti...

List of Red Mountain Wineries. I've updated the Local Wineries page . Made time this morning to add Red Mountain AVA information and a list of Red Mountain Wineries to the  Local Wineries page . This list does not include Benton City wineries, yet. There are some recent additions to Red Mountain which may not be reflected by my list. I'll do more research to confirm. I will be adding a legend to the list of wineries: V= Visited Facility, R=Reviewed Wine. If you notice any errors or omissions, please post a comment. Thanks for the tweets, #ff, #wawine, #ww, @wild4wawine Cheers!

Local Winery - Great Blend This weekend I had the pleasure of enjoying a bottle of Goose Ridge 2008 g3 . The Goose Ridge g3 is a red wine blend of 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 31% Merlot and 24% Syrah with 14.2% alcohol. Some Background Goose Ridge was founded by the Monson Family in 1999. Goose Ridge is an estate winery dedicated to handcrafting wines from grapes grown on their 1,400 acre vineyard. Veteran Columbia Valley winemaker Kendall Mix joined Goose Ridge Vineyard & Estate Winery as head winemaker in April of 2010. I have not had the pleasure of Meeting Mr. Mix or of sampling his wines, yet, but I look forward to that day. The Goose Ridge tasting room is located in Richland, off of Dallas road, about a five minute drive for me. Back to the 2008 g3 I have to admit that, while I drank the 2008 g3 a year ago, I did not review it. Why? Because, a year ago the 2008 g3 seemed too thin, and did not excite my senses – today the g3 is splendid. I try to keep my posts positive, so...

We brought in the new year with good friends and several bottles of Washington wine (hope to share which wines with you soon). 2010 was a landmark year for this blog, 69 posts! That blows away 2008 with only 25 posts. Even though the cold weather is not agreeing with me, I'm looking forward to the rest of 2011. Several ideas for new posts are bouncing inside my head. And yes, I'm eager to enjoy the new vintages and releases. I'd also like to warmly welcome our newest, and closest to me, winery, Hamilton Cellars. You can find their contact information above on the new tab " Local Wineries ". So, Happy New Year! If you've never visited SE Washington State, then hopefully, you'll get the itch to visit Washington Wine Country and have your taste buds pleased and purpled. Cheers!