Our first winery that we visited was Knight Hill and it was way up on a hill! We drove up a gravel road through vineyards to a barn like structure that was their tasting room. The views from the top of the hill was were spectacular. Frank tasted the Riesling and thought it was too dry. We didn’t buy any.
Our next stop was the Hyatt Vineyards. I couldn’t get over the weeping tree in the parking lot, so I took a picture to post. It looks like a natural arch. Inside was a beautiful tasting room.The wine was very good and not very expensive. We bought two bottles for us. And one for our friend back in Palm Desert.
Two Mountain Winery was in a big metal building. They kept it cool inside and as you can see stored the barrels where you could see them. They also had a the chalk board with info on “wine math.” I thought it was interesting to see how they broke it down. Again we thought the Riesling was too dry. It was also expensive.
Silver Lake was beautiful. The landscaping was great and the views over the vineyards seemed to stretch for miles. They didn’t make a Riesling, so we didn’t buy anything.
Paradisos was the most informative and most interesting. The tasting room was a room added onto their house. They are a newer winery and still under construction. It is a Mom and Pop operation. I loved the decorations on the wine bar. Footprints in the color of wine as if they just stepped out of the crushing barrel. Reminded me of the Lucy Ball episode where her and Ethel stomp grapes. The owner of the tasting room had been to wine tasting school and I think he gave us a 2 hour lesson in wine tasting and what to look for. His wife was outside building a fence out of used wine bottles. There is no recycling for those bottles and she stacks them laying down in cement and makes a arched fence. Pretty cool looking, I should have taken a picture! We did buy a bottle of Riesling here. Very good.
By the time we left it was too late to visit the last winery on our list, but we had finished buying anyway. We met our friends for dinner at the Eagles Lodge in Toppenish. A perfect ending of a great day!
We will spend the next two weeks just visiting friends and hanging out in Yakima until we go on our Alaskan cruise.
The first weekend in Aug, Dixie was invited to go up the mountain to Packwood to spend “a girls weekend camping.” So Frank and the dog, Gidget had to fend for themselves while Dixie was in the mountains. The weather was just beautiful. We played games, ate, and talked. On Saturday the ladies had a golf time set. Everyone golfed except me. I just walked around. Good exercise and wonderful ladies.
Some of the players. The hazards, Elk droppings!
The 19th hole Checking the scoresIn the evening around the campfire we played some dice games and gifts were exchanged. Barb wore her bow and the golfers received trophies.
I think we all had a great time and I got to meet new friends!
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