Wineries producing Columbia Gorge wines
- Located in Southwest Washington – total area is 77290 hectares with approximately 394 vineyard acres.
- Primary grape varieties – Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer.
- Silt loam
- Approximately 10 to 36 inches annual rainfall.
Charles Smith Wines
Charles Smith’s explosion onto the world wine scene has been nothing less than phenomenal. Winemaker Charles Smith managed Rock & Roll bands in Europe for 11 years before moving to Walla Walla and starting K Vintners on a shoestring. While Charles’ wines radiate the excitement of his Rock & Roll roots, they are grounded in ...
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Syncline Winery
syn-cline (‘sin-klin): A trough of stratified rock in which the beds dip toward each other from either side. Directly west of the vineyard and winery is a series of sheer, nearly 100 meter cliffs that rise up into the surrounding mountains straight out of the Columbia River. Locally known as the ‘Coyote Wall Syncline’, this ...
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Wines of Substance
The original thought was to be a one wine brand, with a single minded vision to produce the best value-priced Cabernet Sauvignon in America. How do you go about this? Traditional winemaking. Natural fermentations. Barrel-aging. Plus, bottling unfiltered and unfined. In essence, making the wines in small batch winemaking integrity, but doing so ...
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Woodward Canyon
Owner and winemaker Rick Small’s family has been farming the same land where Woodward Canyon’s vineyards now lie for three generations. Rick first planted vineyards here in the late 1970’s, and Woodward Canyon was the second winery to be established in the Walla Walla appellation in 1981, after Leonetti. With deep roots in th ...
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