Walla Walla Wineries Get A Free Pass

With more than fifty wineries pouring wine, sadly, I had to skip some of my favorite wineries to bring you the latest info on Walla Walla wines. I hope none of these reliable friends feel slighted because they get a free pass. You can count on them. They are all wineries that pretty consistently turn out excellent wine. Here they are in alphabetical order with a few comments:

• Dunham - great Syrah and Cab
• Dusted Valley - great Syrah and Viognier
• K Vintner - Syrah, Syrah, Syrah
• Nicholas Cole - high end
• Reininger - always excellent, especially the Merlot
• Sapoleil - obscure winery making excellent Syrah
• Syzygy - good reds
• Three Rivers - huge range, excellent vineyard designated Syrahs
• Walla Walla Vintners - great Cab Franc
• Whitman - Narcissa
• Woodward Canyon - huge range of serious wines
• Yellow Hawk - award winnning wines
• Zerba - kind of a hybrid of many stripes, an Oregon winery in the Walla Walla AVA, another award winner

Taste Walla Walla really should be a two day event, or at least twice as long.