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Wine in the Yakima Valley Winery
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Regular tasting: 5 wines
for $10
A
short video tour of Bonair Winery
Winter seems to start on December 1. Check our
webcam for current conditions. Winters in south central Washington tend
to be mild and since it is a desert, it rarely snows.If you
are flying in, check out the
Tote and Taste
program from Alaska Airlines. Check your luggage on Alaska and your case
of wine flies for free.
Sign up for our newsletter to get unadvertised specials. Come visit
us. Real wine country is just 2 hours east of Issaquah via freeway or 25
minutes from SeaTac or Portland on Alaska Air.
If you are planning a trip to visit Washington wine
country, you will find it very different from California wine country.
Most of the Washington wineries are located in industrial parks, strip
malls, downtown store fronts, and old airports. Even if a winery is an
estate winery, the tasting room may be located miles from the vineyards.
If you are planning a trip from Seattle to visit Red Mountain,
Tri-Cities, or
Walla Walla wineries, you drive right past our winery on I-82,
only 2 1/2 hours out of Seattle. Stop in and see us. You walk through
our vineyards to get to our tasting room. The grapes you see make the
wines you drink.
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 so
you won't see any rattlesnakes here.
This is Washington States
most scenic wine country. 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.
In the desert, there is a great differential between
daytime and nighttime temperatures, sometimes over 40o.
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.
Does it bother you that your wine had a better
vacation than you? Did you get to Summer in Australia? Live in a bodega
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 four consumed in
Washington was produced here. Save the planet. Drink Washington wine.
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. 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
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