Washington State wineries

In Yakima: Apex, Chinook, Kestrel, Yakima Cellars. If you can get your hands on any Apex Outlook Syrah, run, don't walk.

In Columbia Valley: Cañon De Sol

Go to Walla Walla, too, and visit Rulo

If you'er going to be in the Seattle area on Aug. 6th, that's the date of the Rhone Rangers Northwest Grand Tasting .

JJ

Agree about Rulo -- wonderful viognier. Go to Buty, Tamarack and Colvin in Walla Walla -- all near the airport, and there are several other wineries in the immediate area, none of which will disappoint, IMO.

In Tri-Cities, Barnard-Griffin and Bookwalter are among my favorites.

This is on of the orgs that tracks WA wineries:

The food here is great:

Christophe Baron's wines at Cayuse, and all of the wineries that use Red Mountain grapes (Blackwood Canyon is trippy) are my current favorites. Sadly, one of the best was Seth Ryan, whose winemaker was young and died in a car accident recently. I have a friend who loves Wineglass Cellars, and Apex is nearly always mentioned as a top wine. The tricky part about WA wines is that many top winemakers simply transport the grapes from Eastern to Western Washington, so that makers like DeLille, Novelty Hill, JM Cellars, etc., make the best wines but aren't always sited in the growing region itself.

Have fun, and let us know what you find.

In addition to the excellent suggestion you've received -

Also, as you are coming into Walla Walla from the west, Woodward Canyon and L'Ecole 41 are right next to each other.

And Seven Hills in downtown Walla Walla.