From Mattawa to Maine, graduates of the Walla Walla Community College enology and viticulture program have been proving themselves to be golden. Read more…
A winery that integrates the highest level of new techniques and technology needs a label that reflects its cutting-edge approach. Read more…
Perez joined Walla Walla Community College’s staff a year ago, but he was already well-versed in the region’s grape-growing. Read more…
Awarded to a winemaker who is known for the quality of his or her winemaking, contributions to the winemaking community and for helping put Washington wines on the national stage. Read more…
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Grapes are swelling in the hot Walla Walla Valley summer, with the leafy canopies doing their best to shield the ripening fruit from the fiercest of the sun’s rays. It looks primordial, timeless. And indeed, grapes have been grown and crushed into wine for at least the past 6,000 years. Read more…
Wine doesn’t just end up in your glass, it takes a lot of time, skills, and passion. Tori Youngblood shows us how one college program is shaping the next generation of Walla Walla winemakers. Read more…
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Bottling wine doesn’t get a lot of attention. After all, the art is in tending the grapes, and later tending the barrels, right? Bottling the end product is usually viewed by the consumer as just a mundane step between art and commerce. Read more…
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Marcus Rafanelli, born and raised in Seattle, recently was hired as Walla Walla Community College’s newest vintage winemaker. He grew up on Beacon Hill in a big Italian family, whose scions had made their way from the Veneto region of Italy and around Pisa. Read more…
WHAT DO YOU DO when you’re a new winery in a region already choked with wineries? That’s the question Brad Binko faces as the owner and winemaker for Eternal Wines in Walla Walla…read more