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Part of the Wine Blogger Conference was an hour of white wine speed tasting and an hour of red wine speed tasting. I truly have mixed feeling on wine speed tasting. You get to taste through twelve wines in one hour and you just go with your immediate response with a sip or two and you […]

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So I spent three fun and wine filled days in Walla Walla at the Wine Bloggers Conference the other week. I did come away with quite a bit of new knowledge and that I don’t plan any radical changes to the blog or what I tweet. I think I have a great niche with Woodinville wines. […]

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We did manage a break on Friday afternoon for lunch when the Taco Trucks pulled up outside the Marcus Whitman. I know some were a bit unsure but as much as I love fine dining, I love diners and food trucks too. I tried tacos from the first truck La Monarca. I decided to go […]

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Just a few steps from the Marcus Whitman Hotel is downtown Walla Walla and there are quite a few tasting rooms to visit. On Friday night of the Wine Bloggers Conference we had a chance to go on the Walla Walla Wine Walkabout and check out the local downtown tasting rooms. I did like the extra […]

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I arrived in Walla Walla on Thursday afternoon and headed up to my room at the Marcus Whitman Hotel to relax before heading out to Walla Walla Vintners for a pizza party. They have an amazing pizza oven outside the tasting room and some picnic tables looking out onto a vineyard. I could have stayed here […]

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As a more practical matter of how to have our winning WBC or Bust Wine Bloggers taste through quite a few of our wonderful Woodinville wines we had them come to Willows Lodge. It was one of our first nice days this year so we ended up on the patio outside the Fireside Cellars. A […]

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I heard yesterday on KING5 that McMenamins is buying the historic school building in Bothell and turning it into a 70 room hotel, restaurant, pub, movie theatre, and a spa. It’s just what this area needs for the locals and tourists. Tweet This Post

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I stopped by Meritage Meadows the other afternoon for their open house. They are located in Redmond at 21407 NE Union Hill Road, Redmond, WA   98053, close to Woodinville Wine Country, They are looking for wine lovers, B&B fans, and the business traveler to fill their five beautiful rooms. All the rooms are named after Washington AVA’s; Puget, […]

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Here’s a chance to see some of our local winemakers out of their element the Iron Vintner Challenge at Willows Lodge. They will be in the kitchen instead of the winery. There are two preliminary rounds with the first on June 2nd with Mark McNeilly of Mark Ryan Winery vs. Brennon Leighton of Efeste. Round […]

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