Northwest Wine: Cab shows its diversity in Washington
By about any measure, cabernet sauvignon has become Washington state’s signature grape. The noble red grape of France’s Bordeaux region (and California’s Napa Valley) has emerged as Washington’s most important variety and leads to some of our most interesting wines. In each of the past two harvests, winemakers crushed more than 60,000 tons of cab, […]
Kidnapping Victim Relives Nightmare Farmer Made Peace With Death, Then Decided He Must Live
Pat Tucker thought he was doing a good deed when he agreed to help two men who appeared at his farmhouse one night last spring claiming they were out of gas. Instead, he was kidnapped, held for ransom and shot four times in the back of the skull. Grateful for his survival and with a […]
Water from Wine: a local non-profit winery helping to fight the global water crisis
PATERSON, WA – ‘Tis the season of giving… and one father-daughter duo really have a good idea of what that means. The two have started up a fairly new winery in the tiny town of Paterson that’s making a worldwide impact. It’s estimated that more than 650 million people in the world don’t have access […]
Water from Wine Opens Second Tasting Room in Leavenworth
Water from Wine, a non-profit winery headquartered in Paterson, WA., has opened a second tasting room in The Wine Cellar at 217 9th street in Leavenworth. As a nonprofit, Water from Wine isn’t your typical winery. It was born out of a passion to address the global water crisis: water scarcity affecting over 650 million […]
Paterson farmer making water from wine
In a way, the family behind the local nonprofit Water from Wine is bringing the first miracle of Jesus turning water into a wine into a modern-day context, leveraging the rich wine-growing potential in the vineyard at Sandpiper Farms with the global need for clean drinking water. The nonprofit’s name, Water from Wine, is the […]
The nonprofit winery Water from Wine switches the narrative by funding worldwide water projects with wine sales
IN THE GOSPEL of John, the miracle at Cana, in which Jesus turned water into wine, is attributed as his first miracle. Now one Columbia Valley farmer is creating a winery, turning it into a nonprofit and using the proceeds to fund water projects around the globe. Pat Tucker and his daughter, Jamie Senkubuge, launched Water […]