Every Friday ~ 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Wine & Beer Tasting

Tasting fee: $2.00 ~ Waived with any in-store purchase and

for all Wine Club Members.

The Wine Alley invites you to start your weekend with a Wine & Beer tasting every Friday evening from 5:00 - 7:00pm. 

Tastings feature at least 3 wines and 3 beers.  

he last Friday of the month enjoy at least 3 wines and 4 beers. 

Stop in on your way home or to start your evening on your way out. 

Either way, you’ll enjoy some nice wines and cold beer!

Every Tuesday ~ Noon - 6p

Try It, Before You Buy It

Tasting fee: Waived

Stop by The Wine Alley on Tuesday to try a specially selected wine perfect for your Tuesday dinner.  This is a great opportunity for you to stop in anytime throughout the day to try a wine that we think makes the perfect “Tuesday Wine” -- a wine that you can open without guilt and enjoy Tuesday night or any other night of the week without breaking your budget. 

We will keep these wines under $20 and many times under $10. 

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Tuesday & Friday Tastings

Saturday & Special Tastings

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First Wednesday of the Month

Private Wine Tasting For Wine Club Members Only

February 1st, 4:30p - 6:30p

This tasting is exclusively for our Monthly Wine Club Members.  This is their opportunity to sample all of The Wine Club selections, mingle with fellow members, enjoy samples of our cheeses, crackers, Italian salami and chocolates and pick-up their Wine Club selections.

Not yet a member of The Wine Alley Wine Club.  Click here to learn more about The Club and all of its benefits.

This Month’s Selections

Club Red: Fidelitas Merlot 2009, Robert Ramsay Syrah 2009

Club Red/White: Fidelitas Merlot 2009, Long Shadows Carmina Burana Dry Riesling 2008

Club White: Long Shadows Carmina Burana Dry Riesling 2008, Eyrie Pinot Gris 2009

Saturday, February 11th, Noon - 4:30p

Wines for St. Valentine’s Day

Tasting fee: $2.00 Waived with purchase of any featured selection and for all Wine Club Members.

Join us as we feature a special selection of wines to make this special day as romantic as possible for the special person in your life!

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Saturday, February 18th, Noon - 4:30p

Convergence Zone Cellars with owner/winemaker Scott Greenberg

Tasting fee: $2.00 Waived with purchase of any featured selection and for all Wine Club Members.

We are a family-owned and operated winery located in the Puget Sound Convergence Zone located in Woodinville’s Warehouse District. Grapes from some of Washington’s best vineyards in the Red Mountain, Yakima Valley and Columbia Valley areas are vinted and blended by winemaker Scott Greenberg into award-winning small production, premium quality wines. Our 2011 production was 600 cases (up from 140 cases in 2008). Our tasting room is open Noon-5:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays and for special events. We invite you to join our e-mail list, become our Facebook fan, follow us on Twitter or Yelp, or see what we’re doing on Flickr.

We are often asked “what is a convergence zone”? First, it’s a weather phenomenon in the Puget Sound area, and our winery is in the middle of the CZ. Here is a good article on the convergence zone. “Zone” is also a city planning term--residential zone, commercial zone, industrial zone, etc. Since Scott is a city planner (“the job that supports the winery”) we thought it was only fitting to create a “convergence zone” bringing together city planning and wine. Finally, it means a convergence of different grapes, vineyards and winemaking styles to produce drinkable, ageable, aromatic, palate-pleasing and long-finishing wines.

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Saturday, February 25th, Noon - 4:30p

Blind Red Wine Tasting

Tasting fee: $2.00 Waived with purchase of any featured selection and for all Wine Club Members.

Okay, so we really don’t blindfold you for this tasting.  However, we do cover-up the wines so you can’t see what your tasting.  In fact, we don’t tell you anything at all about the wine except it is red.  No price.  No label!  No origin!  Nothing! Nada!

Blind tastings are a great learning experience about wine.  When you don’t know how much a wine costs or what the label looks like or from where it comes, you must rely solely on your senses of smell, sight and taste to determine whether you like the wine or not.

These tastings are always great fun and you just might learn a thing or two about what wines you really like.

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Saturday, March 3rd, Noon - 4:30p

Wind River Cellars with owner/winemaker Joel Goodwillie

Tasting fee: $2.00 Waived with purchase of any featured selection and for all Wine Club Members.

Since the release of our 1995 inaugural vintage, Wind River Cellars has been producing award winning wines made from grapes grown in the Columbia River Gorge and Klickitat County. Recognized as one of Washington State’s most respected wineries, Wind River Cellars has expanded its product line to include twelve different varieties of red and white wine.

Winemaker and Owner, Joel Goodwillie, a forth generation Washingtonian, is dedicated to managing the winery’s estate vineyard with meticulous and environmentally sound attention. Grapes are also sourced from some of the region’s most reputable vineyards, including Celilo and Horse Heaven vineyards.

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Saturday, March 10th, Noon - 4:30p

’37 Cellars with owner/winemaker Frank Dechaine

Tasting fee: $2.00 Waived with purchase of any featured selection and for all Wine Club Members.

’37 Cellars came about when Chuck and I,  two brothers-in-law, decided that we wanted to make our own ultra-premium, hand-crafted wine so that we could enjoy more of it and share it with friends. After a couple of years of doing this, our passion and desire to make more wine and make it available to other people led to the formation of a new Washington State winery  called ’37 Cellars.

The name ’37 Cellars took a long time to come about.  We both  enjoy playing guitar and both are fortunate in owning old Martin vintage guitars. As the name suggests, we are very fortunate as we both have 1937 Martin guitars.

1937 was one of the four years that the C. F. Martin Guitar Company produced instruments that have been known since as the “Holy Grails” of acoustic flat top guitars, the finest ever made. In naming our winery ’37 Cellars, we pay homage to the Golden Era of guitar making.

It is our intention to handcraft the best possible wine by adhering to the same level of detail and excellence as the master guitar makers of the past.

We hope you will enjoy our wines as much as we do!

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The Wine Alley’s

Seventh Anniversary Celebration Weekend

April 27-28,2012

Join us as The Wine Alley celebrates its seventh anniversary the weekend of April 27-28, 2012!!!

It’s hard to believe it has been seven years already.  We couldn’t have done it without the constant support of our Fairwood community.  We are proud to live and work in this great place!

Mark your calendars for the following events! 

Friday, April 27th, 4p - 7p

Mega Beer Tasting

Saturday, April 30th, Noon - 4:30p

Mega Wine Tasting

Hope to see you all there!  More details to follow.

Saturday, February 4th, Noon - 4:30p

Fivash Cellars with owner/winemaker Scott Fivash

Tasting fee: $2.00 Waived with purchase of any featured selection and for all Wine Club Members.

Owners and winemakers, Scott and Margaret Fivash, got their introduction to the Washington wine industry by featuring the “Best of Washington Wines” in Washington CEO magazine, which they owned and operated for more than 15 years.

In 2006, Scott and Margaret moved to Walla Walla to learn more about the wine business. While there, Margaret earned an AAAS degree in Enology and Viticulture at Walla Walla Community College Institute for Enology and Viticulture, Scott attended the Wine Executive program at UC Davis, and they both worked at various wineries for 3 years to gain experience.

Now back in Sammamish, they’ve turned their woodshop into a winery and continue to make wine with grapes sourced mostly from Walla Walla.

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Friday, March 16th, 4p - 7p

St. Patrick’s Day Weekend

Mega Beer Tasting

Tasting fee: $5.00.  Tasting fee includes souvenir beer glass while supplies last.

Kick off your St. Patrick’s Day Weekend at The Wine Alley.  We will be pouring 12 different beers to get your weekend off to a great start!

More details to follow.

There will be no regular wine tasting this evening.

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Saturday, March 24th, Noon - 4:30p

Kiona Cellars

Tasting fee: $2.00 Waived with purchase of any featured selection and for all Wine Club Members.

As far as John Williams and Jim Holmes were concerned, the plan was perfect. It was an 84-acre patch of desolate sagebrush and cheatgrass nestled between Red Mountain and the Yakima River. They did their research, of course, and as far as they could tell, the area was perfect for growing grapes. It had south-facing slopes, incredible hezel silt loam soil, and temperate sunny weather conditions. It didn’t matter that they had to bring electricity in from 3 miles away or dig a well on their own dime. They were going to plant a vineyard, and it was going to be good.

 “We’d researched it and knew there was water about some 500 feet deep. We were at 550 feet and close to the end of our cash, and we hadn’t hit water yet, and the well driller asked us how far we wanted to go. We asked, how much money have we got left? We drilled about five more feet and hit the water.”

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Turns out it was a great decision to drill just a little further. With the water now flowing, the partners decided to go ahead and plant four acres each of three classic varieties – Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, and Riesling. Employing what one of John’s children would jokingly call “slave child labor” more than 30 years later, the first grapes were planted on Red Mountain in 1975. The first fruit was ready in 1978, but only two years would pass before Kiona Vineyards became Kiona Vineyards and Winery and produced the first wine under the name in 1980.

Since then, Kiona has grown from a basement/garage operation to one of the premier wineries in the United States. Wine Spectator has placed two of Kiona’s wines on its prestigious “100 Best Wines” list and the Williams’ were among the inductees into the “Legends of Washington Wine” Hall of Fame in only its second year in existence.

Although Jim Holmes moved on to manage his own vineyard on Red Mountain, the Williams family still tends to their perpetually expanding winery and over 300 acres of vineyards, never forgetting to enjoy plenty of wine along the way!

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Saturday, March 17th, Noon - 4:30p

Jones of Washington

Tasting fee: $2.00 Waived with purchase of any featured selection and for all Wine Club Members.

Jones of Washington is a family owned and operated winery that is committed to small-batch artisanal wines crafted with all the love and attention that people who are closely tied to the land can make.

Jack Jones moved to the Columbia Valley as a child in the early 1950’s.He worked the land as a youth, becoming familiar with the geography and the climate. Subsequently, He began farming as a young man growing grains, forages, potatoes and the like. Throughout Jack’s farming career he always harbored an interest for fruits and vines.He satisfied his fruit curiosity by starting orchards in the early 1980’s. It wasn’t until the early 1990’s that he pursued wine grape growing with a passion. Jack is now recognized as a premier grower, both for magnitude and most importantly quality, in all of Washington State.

So remember, the next time you share one of the classic blends from the Jones of Washington Vineyard, there is over 50 years of experience behind it from Jack and his unique relationship with the land of the Columbia Valley.

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Saturday, March 31st, Noon - 4:30p

JM Cellars

Tasting fee: $2.00 Waived with purchase of any featured selection and for all Wine Club Members.

JM Cellars is a family-owned winery in Woodinville, Washington working in partnership with a diverse collection of the Columbia Valley’s best vineyards to produce high quality wines styled for balance, power, dimension and finesse. Best known for blended reds (we make four), many regard Tre (formerly Tre Fanciulli) as JM Cellars’ “signature” wine.

Prior to starting JM Cellars with his wife Peggy, John Bigelow worked in the technology sector. His family generally understood what he did for a living but it strayed from his desire to create a more tangible work environment that he could share with them. With the winery now a reality, both John and Peggy point to their purple-stained hands as tangible proof of John’s vision, a reality he says wouldn’t have been possible without family. He is quick to thank Peggy for her amazing enthusiasm and drive, his sons’ understanding when harvest has kept him from their soccer or football games and the hours of “sitting” logged by their grandparents. It takes more than great grapes to build a winery, it takes a family.

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Ladies’ Night Wine Tasting

Wednesday, February 22nd

5p - 7p

Tasting fee: $2.00 ~ Waived with any in-store purchase and

for all Wine Club Members.

Leave your spouse, boyfriend or significant other home for the evening and stop by The Wine Alley for an evening of wine tasting.  Grab your girlfriends, neighbors, mothers and sisters and enjoy a variety of wines, cheeses, crackers and chocolates selected with just you in mind.

Join us as we feature Lisa Thompson and her line-up of Mary Kay cosmetics.

Ladies’ Night Wine Tasting

Wednesday, March 21st

5p - 7p

Tasting fee: $2.00 ~ Waived with any in-store purchase and

for all Wine Club Members.

Leave your spouse, boyfriend or significant other home for the evening and stop by The Wine Alley for an evening of wine tasting.  Grab your girlfriends, neighbors, mothers and sisters and enjoy a variety of wines, cheeses, crackers and chocolates selected with just you in mind.

Saturday, April 14th, Noon - 4:30p

Palouse Winery

w/ winemaker George Kirkish

Tasting fee: $2.00 Waived with purchase of any featured selection and for all Wine Club Members.

Situated conveniently on Vashon Island's north end, our pocket winery is easily accessible, right on the main highway, just a mile from the ferry dock. Once you're here, enjoy spectacular views of Colvos Passage and the Olympic mountains while sampling some of the Northwest's finest award winning wines.

Since 2003 we have handcrafted limited quantity wines of the highest quality, ensuring every step of the wine making process is conducted to the highest standards. As with all wines the secret lies within the grapes. We are very fortunate to know Paul & Marilyn Portteus of Portteus Vineyards, one of the oldest vineyards in Washington. Located high in the Rattlesnake Hills, Portteus Vineyards is well known for producing some of the Pacific Northwest's best grapes.

George & Linda are a winemaking team and have been recognized as the "Best Puget Sound Winery", and one of the "Best 15 winemakers in Washington State".  Their passion is to make great wines, meet new friends, and embrace life day to day.

The entire wine making process is done on site, from the crush to the bottling and sale. Our wines are aged in 100% French oak barrels, imparting subtle vanilla, spice and butter flavors. Once bottled by hand, we modernized in 2007 and now utilize Bella, our bottling machine which bottles 40 cases in an hour, saving us hours of agonizing labor!

As we are a family operation we are family-friendly and welcome your family members whether two legged or four legged and in need of a treat or two. If you plan on exploring our island by bicycle we are also bike-friendly so stop in for a refreshing water, relax on the patio, take in the view and have a taste of a current vintage. It makes for a perfect day!

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