Ancient Lakes Area Wine Tour

The next weekend April & I do a tour of wineries in the area. We are a couple of weeks late in the season, and our tour takes us to only three stops: Saint Laurent at Malaga up near Wenatchee ( http://www.saintlaurent.net/ ), the venerable White Heron Cellars ( http://www.whiteheronwine.com/ ) overlooking Crescent Bar in Trinidad (exotic names, Malaga and Trinidad), and back to Dry Falls Cellars in Moses (http://www.dryfallscellars.com/) where we spend a pleasant hour with our feet up, sipping wine and visiting with the winery family. The next morning we head south to Othello and then work west along the Frenchman Hills. We come across a couple of vineyards amid the orchards and fields. We note the row spacing and trellis design. It looks like a handful of farmers and orchardists have just kind of decided to plant some grapes on a likely-looking piece of their land, figuring they would learn as they go. Viola! Just like that, they find themselves on Chamber of Commerce winery maps, part of the Columbia Valley “wine trail,” much to the bemusement of the farmers. http://www.columbiariverwine.com/