If you haven’t been to The Tasting Room in Post Alley (located in Downtown Seattle’s Pike Place Market), you’re missing a nifty opportunity to partake of some fantastic local wines in a splendid setting. The Tasting Room is run by a cooperative of small Washington producers, and you can sample and purchase their wines in their beautiful cellar-like tasting room.
Currently featured are the wines of:
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- Camaraderie Cellars
- Harlequin Wine Cellars
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- Mountain Dome
- Naches Heights Vineyards
- Wilridge Winery
- Wineglass Cellars
Several wines by each producer are available by the glass, half glass, ounce, carafe, bottle, or flight. Prices are reasonable, and there are small food plates offered to provide company to your beverage. The Tasting Room has regular goings-on like trivia night, pizza night, and a monthly Wine 101 class, and rents out their facility for events.
You can find wines here that you won’t find anywhere else, including some older vintages (currently featured on sale for a measly $15 is a 2003 Merlot by Wilridge…I challenge you to find another seven-year-old wine for that price fashioned from Red Mountain fruit!) I saw only about half a dozen cases of that left on my visit with J. last week, so no promises that it will be there if you wait until December to shop for your holiday party.
Pop in to The Tasting Room any day of the week, and you’re likely to find a Washington winemaker working there to chat with and offer recommendations as well as a personal account of this year’s harvest. And all of this is almost close enough to the Market to get hit by a flying fish!
The Tasting Room / 1924 Post Alley, Seattle, WA / tastingroomseattle.com / info@thetastingroomseattle.com / 206-770-9463
Marla said,
February 10, 2011 at 4:19 pm
That sounds fantastic! Also Patterson Cellars just opened a tasting room in Seattle on Western Avenue below Pike Place Market-it’s worth checking out.
http://www.pattersoncellars.com