Yakima Valley Vintners, YVCC’s teaching winery, is located on the YVCC Grandview Campus. The facility offers students studying in the college’s Vineyard & Winery Technology Program the opportunity for hands-on technical training in the area of viticulture and enology.

This year, the annual Grape to Glass Gala will include a Winemaker’s Dinner paired with Yakima Valley Vintners’ wines, a silent auction and dancing. Proceeds will benefit student scholarships for the Vineyard & Winery Technology Program.

Several students from the Vineyard & Winery Technology Program have started their own wineries since taking classes at YVCC. Past students David Volmut, owner of Wind Rose Cellars in Sequim and Carly Faulk, owner of C & C Vintage Cellars in Prosser, will be showcased during this year’s event.

Reserve Tickets by May 17, 2012. Advance purchase only.

Tickets are available now

or by contacting 509-882-7037 or wine@yvcc.edu

If you prefer to mail in your ticket purchase, click on this downloadable form and mail to us before May, 2012.

Yakima Valley Vintners is busy managing the wines made from the 2011 year’s harvest. It looks like the 2011 will be another great year for wines in the Yakima Valley, especially for Merlot.

Yakima Valley Vintners released what is destined to become the next cult wine from the Yakima Valley in Washington. During the 2008 Spring Barrel Tasting, the students of the Vineyard & Winery Technology Program released their inaugural bottling. Those same wines have now become award winners and are nearly all sold out! The good news is more award winners have followed the inagural year and keep our tasting room fully stocked with 2008, 2009 and 2010 vintages.

For more information on the Yakima Valley Community College Vineyard and Winery Technology Programs, please visit www.yvcc.edu/wine