Washington wineries

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.