If you’re planning wine tasting trips throughout Washington State, or you just want to learn more about Washington wines and winemakers, visit the wine alliance pages of our various regions and AVAs. Their websites generally contain event listings, winery lists, tasting room maps and vineyard info.
Washington State has diverse wine growing regions, multiple “wine countries” and tasting room clusters. Wineries and tasting rooms in hyperlocal areas band together to share resources, work together, and put on events. Take advantage of their web and social media resources, where you’ll be able to catch up on current wine news, wine events, wine releases and get a feel for what’s going in wine on all over the state.
Let’s start with the most important resource for Washington wine: the Washington State Wine Commission.
https://www.washingtonwine.org/
The Washington Wine Institute is the vocal advocate and champion of the Washington state wine industry.
A few of you might be interested in the Washington Winegrowers Association:
https://www.wawinegrowers.org/
Family Wineries of Washington State advocates for small family wineries.
Central Washington:
https://www.centralwashingtoncolor.com/things-to-do/vineyard-winery-tours/
Greater Seattle Area:
Here in Seattle, we have small clusters of wineries working together throughout the greater Seattle area; but we also have the state’s largest concentration of tasting rooms, in Woodinville.
Puget Sound Wine Growers
Seattle Urban Wineries
https://www.seattleurbanwineries.com/
Wineries of Bainbridge Island
https://www.bainbridgewineries.com/
Woodinville Wine Country
https://woodinvillewinecountry.com/
Lake Chelan:
http://lakechelanwinevalley.com/
North Central Washington/Cascades
Cascade Valley Wine Country
https://www.cascadevalleywinecountry.com/
The Columbia River Gorge
Olympic Peninsula:
https://olympicpeninsulawineries.org/
Prosser:
Prosser Wine Network
https://prosserwinenetwork.com/
Southwest Washington:
Southwest Washington Wine Association
Greater Spokane:
The Cork District
Lewis-Clark Valley Wine Alliance
The Spokane Winery Association
https://www.facebook.com/Spokane-Winery-Association-101452221388/
Walla Walla:
The Walla Walla Valley Wine Alliance
https://www.wallawallawine.com/
Yakima:
Rattlesnake Hills Wine Trail
Yakima Valley Wine Country
https://yakimavalleywinecountry.com/
Wine Yakima Valley
We listed only associations with webpages and social media presences that have been updated in late 2019 or early 2020.
Did we forget your local wine association? Let us know in the comments section below.
For more information on Washington wine, visit these blogs and websites:
https://www.discoverwashingtonwine.com/
https://greatnorthwestwine.com/
https://www.washingtontastingroom.com/
http://www.washingtonwineblog.com/
https://www.winemag.com/contributor/sean-sullivan/
-Carrie
Woodinville Wine Blog
https://pnwwinelife.com/