Paige,
You are most welcome. Have a wonderful time at Taste Washington!

Cheers!

Plaza Winery
Winer Makers Loft
Prosser WA

WineMiser,
I hope you’ll brave I-5 and come up for Taste Washington. It’s a great event! The DeLille Chaleur Blanc is a good wine but doesn’t stack up well price-wise against its peers at the same quality level.

Paige,
You are wise to plan a strategy ahead of time. Taste Washington is a huge event and can be overwhelming if you are not prepared. Brian offered two of the best tips for newbies (and veterans alike): Spit and drink lots of water. I suggest that you visit the Taste WA website to preview the list of participating wineries: http://www.tastewashington.org/seattle/wineries/. And if memory serves, check the website closer to the event for a preview of the program that should give you a map of where the winery booths will be located. I would prioritize the wineries you’d like to visit. Start with the 10 you don’t want to miss, then mark the next 10 you’d like to visit if you have time and so on. It gets really crowded during the general admission hours, so you might not get to as many as you’d like. But if you visit 10 winery booths and try all three wines they are serving, that’s 30 wines right off the bat. Then depending on time, crowds, etc. you can try more if you’d like. As for which wineries should be on your “must try” list, I’d encourage you to take a look at our “go-to” list of Washington wineries for 2009: http://winepeeps.com/2009/11/20/wine-peeps-leading-the-coverage-of-washington-state-wines-continued/. Have fun!

Cheers!

Write down a list of the wines you really want to try (especially if they are highly allocated or sought after). Taste is generally organized in alphabetical order by winery so you can knock that list out pretty easily.

Make sure you eat while you are there and don’t be afraid to taste and then spit. The motto is it’s hip to spit!

Drink LOTS of water!

Most important of all is HAVE FUN!!!!!!

Thinking about coming up for that.

Love Seattle, hate I-5!

I see you banged the DeLile Blanc,

Too expensive for a white wine?

Especially when you can get Eroica for low $20′s ?

Cheers!

The Wine Miser -

Right now drinking an OLD vine Priorat that picked up $10.

YES!!!!!

Great post! Can’t wait to get up to Seattle in about a month! I am bringing 5 others this year from Houston up there! Thank goodness for those flight benefits because of my job! Looking forward to another fun Taste Washington!!!!!