Wineries in Washington forms a multi-billion empire that
generate a lot of revenue to the state through its sale of wines and revenues from the many
tourist who visits these wineries during the various events such as wine
tasting and tours of the vineyards and wineries. Although wine making dates
back to many centuries ago, it was not well capitalized until in the year of
1970s where academicians who had the zeal to grow fruits for making wine
successfully established the first vineyards. Later the vineyard increased in number
spreading all over the country side.
Washington wineries
are most favored by the cold and wet winter that is followed by warm and Sunny
summers. The success of Washington wineries has helped it rank in the second
place in the whole country trailing California in terms of wine making. More
than 129,000 tons of wines are produced from Washington wineries hence the
rankings. This is viewed as a great success considering that the state was not
among the first regions to begin the wine making business.
Categories of wines available from Washington wineries
Washington wineries can be categorized as either as wine
wineries, red wine wineries, rose wine wineries, sparkling wine wineries and
white wine wineries. The category of wine produced by these Washington wineries
is determined by variety of grape used, the climate under which these grapes
are cultivated such as tropical climate of Virginia will have a different
category of wines compared to other areas. Also the soil plays a great role in
determining the category the wine will be placed and finally the method used to
vinify the wines. Though subjective in nature these categories are generated
from the combination of color of the wine, the taste of the output wine, the strength
of the alcohol and numerous other considerations.
Although there are various grapes and winemaking ways wines Washington wineries produce the
following categories of wine; Red wine unlike what the name suggest is made
from black grapes. The range of grape used to make the red wine is from light, dark
to bone-dry sweet grapes. White wines are produced from, green and may also be
made from black ones. It is flavored by zesty creamy to right flavors. Rose
wines are also made from black grapes but the process is quite different as the
grapes skins need to be removed. Red and white wine once blended can also
produce rose wines. Sparkling wine is formed by having a secondary fermentation
of the grapes until bubbles are formed .Fortified wine applies the method of
wine making that use spirits to fortify the wine.
Washington wineries
offers more than just wine tasting, visitors can enjoy the art gallery exhibited in the wineries, gifts
items gorgeous tables and chairs while enjoying the sipping of wine which is
also accompanied by great testing food Washington wineries is characterized by the numerous vineyards
that are spread all over the place where grapes are cultivated and delivered
to the Wineries though sometimes these
vineyard cannot meet the demands of grapes hence they are sourced from other
areas which include countries such as china.