One would think that the winery tasting rooms would be busy on the weekend but I guess that the Wine and Food Fair in Prosser is taking all the business from Walla Walla as the tasting rooms were mostly empty of patrons. That is a good thing for us since we get more attention and more tastings.
We rode our bikes around the town on Saturday morning. In 1904 a fort was built here to protect the farmers from the Indians and today it is the VA Hospital Center. Walla Walla has several nice green parks and a good bike trail system.
We tasted at Gramercy Cellars and Canoe Ridge Vineyard in town before heading out to Waterbrook Winery and 3 Rivers Winery. More wine will be showing up in MO this fall!
Today we tasted at Spring Valley Vineyards, who has named all their wines after the founding family, and Morrison Lane. We met the owner the other night at Charles Smith Winery and had a very nice visit with his wife today. We also tasted at Mark Ryan Winery.
As we were looking for another place to taste wine, we came across a free concert on the Plaza in the middle of town. It was a blues band called The Kingbees and it appeared that the musicians were older than us as was most of the audience. But they were very good. We stood by our bikes for almost an hour listening to them.
Whitehouse-Crawford restaurant came highly recommended by a couple we met while tasting at Gramercy Cellars. It was a old lumber mill resurrected as a winery and restaurant. The couple who recommended it actually work there and Mckenzie was our waitress. We discovered late in the evening that she was an aspiring opera singer when she belted out an opera passage for her boss. She will be working on her Masters this fall. Sounded to me like she will do well as an opera diva.
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