9 great wine bars around Tacoma to learn your grapes in 2024
Tacoma, a beer town I was told, has been drenched in wine in recent years, thanks to an influx of thoughtful entrepreneurs, a couple of wineries looking to reach new audiences, and the long-awaited growth of what was once the city’s only shop. Brewery taprooms are a popular destination for families year-round, but wine is […]
What is Pierce County’s ‘hidden harbor’? A place to unwind with Washington state wine
A new wine bar and bottle shop hopes to attract more locals and visitors alike to the “quiet” side of Gig Harbor while filling a void for a grape-focused hangout. Hidden Harbor Wine Library opened Aug. 29 at 8805 North Harborview Dr., where a curated selection of strictly Washington wines enjoyed in a breezy atmosphere […]
Yes, Tacoma has wineries. ‘Wine Passport’ lets you jet-set your way to free drinks this spring
Is Tacoma a wine town? It’s definitely starting to feel that way, as several wineries have recently chosen Tacoma over other Puget Sound cities for their first locations or expansions. With two local wine bars and bottle shops, including the venerable Tacoma Wine Merchants, four of them have banded together to create the first Tacoma […]
Tacoma is attracting wineries. New downtown tasting room has a bonus mission
As Tacoma continues to attract wineries, Water from Wine joins the field as the only one with a nonprofit business model. The downtown tasting room opened Nov. 3 at 1704 Pacific Ave. within the University-Washington Tacoma campus. Since bottling its first vintage in 2014 and selling its first bottle in 2017, the Paterson-based Water from […]
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 […]