Yakima Valley Vintners

SAVE THE DATE!

A Scholarship Fundraiser for YVCC’s
Vineyard & Winery Technology Students

Saturday, May 15, 2010
Join Us!

Winemakers Dinner
Silent Auction
Live Music & Dancing

For information about ticket sales:
wine@yvcc.edu / 509-882-7007

Save the Date (grape to glass) poster

Our Teach, Tour and Taste event was a resounding success. With over 75 visitors learning about our tasting room, winery and student programs, the event exceeded expectations.

A big thank you to the Vines, Wines and Dollar Signs learning community for your outstanding effort. Thanks to our community members for coming out to support the student’s efforts in the Yakima Valley Community College teaching Winery.

Yakima Valley Community College presents:

Teach, Tour & Taste Event

March 3, 2010  from 5 to 8 pm

Yakima Valley Vintners Teaching Winery
on the Grandview Campus
110 Grandridge, Grandview, WA

Free educational tours and tastings.
Hand-crafted wines by the glass, bottle or case.
Presented by Wine Marketing and Winery Technology students for the community.
A Community Event!

If you plan on visiting the Yakima Valley for Valentines Day, don’t miss the opportunity to visit the tasting room at the valley’s only teaching winery, Yakima Valley Vintners. We will be open Friday, Saturday and Sunday over the long weekend and we will have special wine pairings with chocolates. In house wine wine specials will also be offered along with our spectacular tasting of our award winning, student crafted wines. We hope to see you soon! Yakima Valley Vintners

Limited Release – Holiday Special

2008 Lemberger 3 Pack                                                 $34.99

This special three Pack of 2008 Lemberger offers a crafty contrast with three oak aging treatments in each sampler. All three wines in this collection are made with the same grapes, vintage and harvest. We then aged them with three distinctive Oak barrel treatments, American, French and Neutral oak. Available on a very limited release of only 109 sets and only available at the tasting room. (sorry, no additional discounts on this special pricing)

The tasting room will be open for Thanksgiving in Wine Country from 12:00 Pm to 5:00 PM on Friday and Saturday. Stop and to check out our spectacular case specials on our 2007 Viognier and our 2008 Mourvedre Rose.

Last night was a banner night for Yakima Valley Vintners, the Grandview, Washington winery located on the Grandview Campus of Yakima Valley Community College. All four student made wines submitted by Yakima Valley Vintners were award winners in the blind tasting along side more than 300 professionally made wines at the 31st annual Tri-Cities Wine Festival (results).

The four wines submitted were produced by students completing course work in the YVCC Enology and Viticulture programs over the last two years. The wines are marketed through the program at YVCC’s Grandview campus which houses the winery facility and tasting room.

The wines submitted for this year’s competition are:

• Yakima Valley Vintners 2008 Primitivo – Gold Medal Winner
• Yakima Valley Vintners 2008 Teacher’s Pet (Mourvedre Rose) – Silver Medal Winner
• Yakima Valley Vintners 2007 Graduates Last Hyrah – Syrah – Silver Medal Winner
• Yakima Valley Vintners 2008 Class Project – Viognier – Silver Medal Winner

The Yakima Valley Vintners tasting room at 110 Grandridge, is open every Friday afternoons from 3:30pm to 6:00pm where you can find these wines along with the entire repertoire available for purchase.

For more information contact us at info@yakimavalleyvintners.com

The 2009 wine making season is in full swing here in Grandview.

Our first 2009 vintage, a wonderfully dark Syrah, has completed its initial fermentation and was pressed last night. Our second vintage of Primitivo was crushed earlier this week and is just beginning initial fermentation. Students in the program have been busy learning to process the fruit being brought in this fall and are picking things up really quickly.

We will keep you posted on our progress for this season’s harvest and in the mean time you can check out our wines that have been released from past seasons in the Wine Shop . And remember, our Grandview Tasting room is open every Friday from 3:30 to 6:00 pm.

Cheers!

Yakima Valley Vintners