How quickly August turned into September! On Friday the 6th, I decided to head to Red Mountain with the idea that I would hit a tasting room I hadn’t visited in quite some time. My first stop was to say hello to my friends at Fidélitas....
On Saturday August 24th, my wife and I attended Col Solare’s 2016 Tenuta Cabernet Sauvignon Release Tasting. We were met by April Reddout and Felicia Smoker who do an outstanding job of managing and coordinating the tasting room and other special events at Col Solare....
On Sunday August 18th, Gabby and I decided it was time to give some love to Walla Walla. So on this beautiful day we headed Southeast to the land of fabulous wine! Without any real plan we decided to make things up as we went. ...
Today was a day to just relax, enjoy some wine, get some sun on Red Mountain and breathe some fresh air. My journey took me to the top of Red Mountain at Col Solare Winery. What started as a simple wine tasting evolved into a fantastic experience created by April Reddout and Lisa Weld-Henson....
Aaron's Wine Chronicles welcomes Darel Allwine for our 2nd winemaker interview! Darel is the Head Winemaker of Col Solare Winery on Red Mountain in Benton City, WA....
Thursday was one of those days where neither I, nor my wife, knew what to do with ourselves. So after a few hours at the office, I came home and we decided to embark on back-to-back wine tasting escapades – since we spent the previous day doing the same thing! I guess you can’t argue with success right? If it worked yesterday and it isn’t broken…why fix it?...
As I’m making my way home from Minneapolis, Minnesota on a Wednesday morning (from a business trip), my wife asks if I’d be up for some wine tasting when I arrived home. What was I to do? My answer was, “If I must honey….if I must!” So we went straight from the airport to the wineries!...
As July turned into August, on this first Friday of the last month of summer, my wife decided she wanted to accompany me on a wine adventure. So of course I obliged her!...
On Saturday July 27th, I was in a “mood” and my thirst for some wine with some great views overtook me. My wife was again busy with photo shoots, so I drove solo to Paterson, Washington to visit Columbia Crest and Alexandria Nicole’s Destiny Ridge Vineyard tasting room. It was a beautiful day!...
On a gorgeous Sunday around noon (July 21st), I decided to head out to Prosser and partake of some great Washington State wine. My first stop was WIT Cellars. It’s one of my favorite small-production wineries in the State. ...