William Pollard Jr | aka: Wild 4 Washington Wine

What is RESERVE? Only the highest rated wines please. Part Two: Destination Woodinville Wine Country.  Wine country in Woodinville, Washington. What does that mean to you? For me it used to represent a lot of Woodinville labels disconnected from faces and place. No longer. If you missed the previous post, I'm re-counting a weekend spent in Woodinville Wine Country. This was my first visit to Woodinville Wine Country. *Read the  Introduction Woodinville a First Weekend "No Longer Strangers"  if you missed it. After freshening up in my room at the Willows Lodge and Spa , I prepared for the Über exclusive wine tasting events RESERVE and North of 95 . RESERVE is an annual event featuring only award-winning, 90+ rated Woodinville wines. Convenient for me because the venue was at the Willows Lodge. RESERVE a room of very happy people. New this year was the optional  North of 95 tasting, where only the peak vintages of 95+ rated Woodinville w...

INTRODUCTION  Woodinville a First Weekend. What is the proper voice for sharing? Sometimes I forget this is a blog, a collection of my personal experiences and opinions. What I do not forget is the privilege of sharing with you the reader my sincere thoughts. Free to choose my words for this blog, as many as I wish, I choose to focus on the positive. I would rather build-up than tear-down. Occasionally an experience overwhelms and is too big for one post. Patterson Cellars Pour of Chardonnay. Many of my wine friends have encouraged me to visit a place I did not understand. "There is a lot going on in Woodinville, I'm surprised you have not visited." My typical response was, "They don't grow grapes there." Novelty Hills Januick Winery. Living in eastern Washington as long as I have, you know, where the grapes are grown, one can develop a little sensitivity to the dichotomy inherent in Washington state. Urban vs. agricultural, wet vs. dry,...