aggiesundevil4 said:
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Looking for help to plan where to go and which wineries to visit…thought the Wine experts on this board may have recommendations in addition to the travel board folks…TIA
Oregon and definitely E. Washington will be hot during the day in the summer. Obviously cooler if you are on the coast.
There are several hundred wineries in the Walla Walla area, I think, and some just across the border in Milton-Freedwater area of Oregon.
There are also a lot of Wash. wineries with tasting rooms in Woodinville, which is near Seattle, so if you just want to taste wines and be near a big city, that's an option. One time we did a couple of days into Woodinville and then drove down to Oregon and spent a couple of days in the Willamette Valley.
Washington wineries tend to be very red wine focused, lots of Bordeaux blends (cab heavy) and also Syrah and Grenache. There is growing vineyard acreage for whites, some rhone whites and also spanish whites with a smattering of sauv blanc, riesling, semillion. A bit of chardonnay here and there.
If you want multiple cooler climate wines, Pinot and chardonnay options, then you'd probably rather be drinking in Willamette valley where those are really the specialty and the majority of the production.
