Bonair Winery Home Page

Wine in the Yakima Valley Winery
Rattlesnake Hills AVA
Bonair Winery and Vineyards
Official Home Page
500 South Bonair Road
Zillah, Washington 98953
Yakima Valley, Washington
Hours: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Daily

Bellevue Delivery

The first weekend in December, we deliver wine to our friends house in Bellevue. You only have to drive as far as Eastgate to get your wine - not over Snoqualmie Pass. Wine may be picked up Saturday December 6 and Sunday December 7. To order, just use our handy self-calculating order form. If you are a member of our Elite! wine club you get to purchase wine at wholesale. Here is the Elite! order form. You may play around with the two forms and see if it saves you money to join the Elite!

Winter arrives around December 1 in the Rattlesnake Hills. It is the quiet time in the wine country. Bonair Winery will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Otherwise, we are open from 10:00 to 4:30 daily. Don't worry about snow. We don't get very much and when we do, we plow the parking lot. The nice thing about winter coming on December 1, is that is is gone on March 1. Spring begins early in the Rattlesnake Hills.

Does it bother you that your wine had a better vacation than you? Did you get to Summer in Australia? Live in a wine cellar in Chile? or spend time in Bordeaux? We support the locavore movement. Your food shouldn't travel any more than you. Travel globally, but eat locally. Did you know that only one bottle in six consumed in Washington was produced here. Save the planet. Drink Washington wine.

Bonair Winery is situated in the Rattlesnake Hills of the Yakima Valley, Washington State's foremost wine growing region region. No, we don't have rattlesnakes in our vineyards. Every March 17, St. Patrick's Day we drive the snakes out of the vineyards. This is Washington States most scenic wine country. There are no industrial park wineries. (Unlike California, most wineries in Washington State are in cities and their grapes come from hundreds of miles away often blending vineyards that are 100 miles apart.) In the Rattlesnake hills you drive through orchards and vineyards, just like wine country is supposed to be. Like Bonair, our neighbors are Estate Wineries, also. We have a close connection to the soil. The grapes you see are the wines you drink.

Most people think Seattle is Washington. Well, politically speaking, it is, but east of the Cascade Range is a vast desert that receives as little as 5 inches annual rainfall. Folks, that's less than Phoenix, Arizona. It is a perfect climate for Vitis Vinifera, the European Wine Grape. We get 17.4 hours of sunshine in the summer, 2 hours more than the fellows down in California. Washington is on the same latitude as the famous wine regions of France. As you can see by the map, California is on a different latitude.

In the desert, there is a great differential between daytime and nighttime temperatures, sometimes over 40^o. These cool evenings preserve the natural acid in the grapes while daytime temperatures develop sugars. This results in a perfect sugar/acid balance.

Without untimely and damaging natural rainfall in the Yakima Valley, we can precisely regulate the amount of water the plants receive to ripen grapes to perfection with the use of drip irrigation. Drip irrigation preserves water, a precious commodity in the desert West.

Winery Tours $10/person Vineyard Tours $10/person
	Wine in the Yakima Valley Winery Rattlesnake Hills AVA Bonair Winery and Vineyards Official Home Page 500 South Bonair Road Zillah, Washington 98953 Yakima Valley, Washington Hours: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Daily Catch the Crush at Bonair Winery! View the activities as reported on KIMA 29 Bellevue Delivery The first weekend in December, we deliver wine to our friends house in Bellevue. You only have to drive as far as Eastgate to get your wine - not over Snoqualmie Pass. Wine may be picked up Saturday December 6 and Sunday December 7. To order, just use our handy self-calculating order form. If you are a member of our Elite! wine club you get to purchase wine at wholesale. Here is the Elite! order form. You may play around with the two forms and see if it saves you money to join the Elite! Winter arrives around December 1 in the Rattlesnake Hills. It is the quiet time in the wine country. Bonair Winery will be closed on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Otherwise, we are open from 10:00 to 4:30 daily. Don't worry about snow. We don't get very much and when we do, we plow the parking lot. The nice thing about winter coming on December 1, is that is is gone on March 1. Spring begins early in the Rattlesnake Hills. Does it bother you that your wine had a better vacation than you? Did you get to Summer in Australia? Live in a wine cellar in Chile? or spend time in Bordeaux? We support the locavore movement. Your food shouldn't travel any more than you. Travel globally, but eat locally. Did you know that only one bottle in six consumed in Washington was produced here. Save the planet. Drink Washington wine. Bonair Winery is situated in the Rattlesnake Hills of the Yakima Valley, Washington State's foremost wine growing region region. No, we don't have rattlesnakes in our vineyards. Every March 17, St. Patrick's Day we drive the snakes out of the vineyards. This is Washington States most scenic wine country. There are no industrial park wineries. (Unlike California, most wineries in Washington State are in cities and their grapes come from hundreds of miles away often blending vineyards that are 100 miles apart.) In the Rattlesnake hills you drive through orchards and vineyards, just like wine country is supposed to be. Like Bonair, our neighbors are Estate Wineries, also. We have a close connection to the soil. The grapes you see are the wines you drink. Most people think Seattle is Washington. Well, politically speaking, it is, but east of the Cascade Range is a vast desert that receives as little as 5 inches annual rainfall. Folks, that's less than Phoenix, Arizona. It is a perfect climate for Vitis Vinifera, the European Wine Grape. We get 17.4 hours of sunshine in the summer, 2 hours more than the fellows down in California. Washington is on the same latitude as the famous wine regions of France. As you can see by the map, California is on a different latitude. In the desert, there is a great differential between daytime and nighttime temperatures, sometimes over 40^o. These cool evenings preserve the natural acid in the grapes while daytime temperatures develop sugars. This results in a perfect sugar/acid balance. Without untimely and damaging natural rainfall in the Yakima Valley, we can precisely regulate the amount of water the plants receive to ripen grapes to perfection with the use of drip irrigation. Drip irrigation preserves water, a precious commodity in the desert West.	509.829.6027 fax 509.829.6410 fax 509.829.6215 Click on the picture to see an enlarged view of the vineyard today. The picture is updated from sunrise to sunset daily. For up-to-date pass conditions, check the Washington State Pass Report. Note: The Maryhill Bridge at Biggs Junction, OR will be closed after Labor Day. Cross at The Dalles, OR. We'll see you later this morning! We are only two hours and fifteen minutes via Interstate from Bellevue. We are only 172 miles from Portland Oregon. Have a safe trip.
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