In 2008 Jessica Munnell approached Tom Merkle about working together to create a wine that featured his grapes. A partnership was formed that became Wautoma Wines – made of the best Cabernet Sauvignon from Wautoma Springs. Eight years later Rachel Mercer joined the duo and the three set their sights on increasing production and opening a Tasting Room. In December 2019, Wautoma Springs Tasting Room in Prosser, WA, opened. A small tasting space that showcases tapas, tinned seafood, local produce and Wautoma Springs wines.The epitome of a boutique winery, producing extremely small-lot, hand-crafted wines from people who know the business inside and out. This isn't a venture capitalist's or a lawyer's winery - not that there's anything wrong with that. We know the soil. We know the vines. And we know how to make good wine. Our story is in every bottle.
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Treveri Cellars - Christian Grieb
Treveri Cellars, Washington State’s Yakima Valley, founding sparkling wine house, produces some of the finest handcrafted sparkling wines in the United States. Family-owned and operated since its inception, Treveri prides itself on a tradition of excellence in both winemaking and service, ensuring that each bottle of sparkling wine delivers superior taste and quality. With a wide array of sparkling wines, including non-traditional varieties such as Riesling and Müller-Thurgau, Treveri largely focuses on 100% varietal sparkling wines, crafting each wine in the traditional method (Méthode Traditionnelle). Treveri Cellars was founded with the principal of producing premium sparkling wines from Washington State using the finest vineyard sources. Treveri’s wines are expressive of each varietal, and have a distinctive flavor of both the unique terroir and style of its winemakers and their German heritage. With degrees in Winemaking and Sparkling Winemaking from Karthäuserhof Winery in Germany, Head Winemaker Jürgen Grieb, along with his son, Christian, use the traditional method of producing sparkling wine, a complicated process that yields delightfully complex and fruit-forward sparkling wine. Treveri’s winemakers bring together old-world techniques and new world fruit, crafting sparkling wines that rival some of the world’s best.
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Tirriddis Sparkling Wines - Andrew Gerow
Tirriddis is a Washington State traditional method sparkling wine winery located in Prosser, Washington. Founded in 2020 by Andrew Gerow, Gabriel Crowell, and Matthew Doutney, three graduates of Washington State Universities Viticulture & Enology program. Our name, Tirriddis, comes from Tirage, Riddle, and Disgorge the three steps to naturally produce sparkling wines. Focused solely on this traditional method, we proudly implement ground-breaking and unique “non-traditional” styles to emphasize Washington’s world class growing environment. In addition to wine quality, sustainability within the community and our environment is very important to us as we strive to help represent and push forward the future of Washington wine.
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Purple Star Winery - Amy and Kyle Johnson
In 2008 we set out to start a winery with a specific vision: to embody the soul of wine from vineyard to bottle to table. Our philosophy is that wine should be accessible, approachable, and affordable. But most of all, we believe a wine’s purpose is to bring together family and friends!With 10 years of viticulture and winemaking experience in Washington State, we know a thing or two about making wine. For starters, Purple Star’s varietal blends are grown from some of Washington State’s finest appellations including Wahluke Slope, Yakima Valley and Red Mountain. With grapes handpicked at their optimal flavor profile and juice fermented at cooler temperatures for longer periods, our wines exhibit softer tannins and retain more varietal character.
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Martinez & Martinez - Drew Martinez
The Martinez family planted a small vineyard of Cabernet Sauvignon in 1981 on the Horse Heaven Hills AVA (HHH’s) and are now a small family owned and operated vineyard and winery. They take pride in the family’s Latino heritage as the vineyard owner, Sergio Martinez; is from Mexico while his wife Kristy is 3rd generation Prosser resident. Their son Drew Martinez is the winemaker and his wife Monica the General Manager. Customers will find numerous artworks inside the winery representing the Latino heritage including Dia de Los Muertos art.The winery, established in 2005; produces their estate, old vine Dominio de Martinez Cabernet Sauvignon and May Mae Rosé. They also produce other award-winning reds like Carménère primarily from the HHH’s AVA and whites like Albariño from The Yakima Valley AVA. The family celebrates their Mexican heritage through experiences from the vineyard to the glass.Daily offerings include wine tasting flights and appetizers with expanded food options Friday-Sunday. Guests can purchase by the glass or bottle or venture out and try one of the wineries famous wine slushies. Either the original Rosé Rita or the new Mango Rita with Chamoy and Tajin.
Wine Soundtrack, one of Italy’s leading podcasts about wine, is the voice of the Italian wine growers and winemakers. Wine Soundtrack was launched in Italy in May 2017 and is now launching in the U.S. In each podcast, wine producers share the story of who they are and their winery through a series of 30 questions. Wine Soundtrack was created to bring to life an idea of sharing and insight; it allows wine lovers to listen to the hopes, dreams, intuitions, prospects, loves and passions of the protagonists of the wine world, directly from their own voices. Wine Soundtrack will make you smile and amuse you through the voices of those who have decided to express their own character, their own dreams and their own ambitions in each bottle of wine. Wine Soundtrack will lead us through the vineyards of ideas and of visionary thinking and will share the passion of these producers. Follow us on our web site www.winesoundtrack.com
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