Savor Idaho was a great success, it seems to sell out earlier every year. We always have fun and enjoyed our experience this year too. We were pouring our Harvest Moon Red, Dry Riesling and Dry Rosé. The Boise Weekly was there and they loved our Harvest Moon Red! Click the link for their full article.
For the month of April
“It’s like you put Spring into a bottle!”
The 2015 Blossom is a dry rose with strong strawberry notes & a crisp, clean finish. This rosé complements mild cheeses & dishes featuring fresh basil & thyme. Try it with a crisp chicken salad garnished with strawberries. This promotion lasts until April 30th. This promotion does not apply in combination with other promotion, discounts or sales.
The Williamson family has farmed in this valley for 4 generations and have relied on our native pollinators for the health and success of our orchards and vineyards. Help us help Pollinator Partnership in their mission to promote the health of pollinators (not just Honey Bees) through conservation, education and research. 100% of your donation goes to Pollinator Partnership. This promotion lasts until March 31st.
For more information about Pollinator Partnership go to pollinator.org.
Holiday Wine BOGO Special
During the month of December, buy a case of red wine at full price and get a case of select white wines for $1.00!!
Sale excludes 2012 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon & 2013 Homestead Red. Choose from 2015 Blossom or 2014 Dry Riesling for your whites.
No other discounts or promotion can be applied. Availability is subject to change.
Williamson Vineyard’s 2013 Sangiovese was voted Best of Sangiovese and pulled a double gold medal at the 2017 Best of the Northwest competition put on by SIP Northwest magazine.
We are so pleased to announce that our 2013 Syrah has been awarded gold in the Great NW Cascadia Wine Competition!
Any Idaho agricultural story, even a story about wine, has to begin with potatoes. The state turns out 13 billion pounds of spuds a year. Go ahead, read it again if you have to: 13 billion pounds.
Idaho aggies are big on barley, plums, onions, beets and mint too. They don’t call it the Gem State for nothing; the place has good growing soil, and for close to 50 years, a small portion of it has been dedicated to growing commercial wine grapes. Idaho’s climate is well suited for such a crop, and most of it grows at relatively high elevation, somewhere between 2,500 and 3,000 feet. The state enjoys long, sunny days (for ripening) and cool high-altitude nights (for retaining acidity). Daily temperature shifts of 40 degrees are not out of the question in some vineyard locations.
Idaho vineyards date to the 1860s, even before grapes were planted next door in Washington and Oregon. (If you don’t have a map in front of you, Idaho’s western edge forms the entire eastern borders of both of those coastal states.) Prohibition put an end to the first phase of the Idaho wine industry, and it was not until the 1970s that it picked up where it left off. So Idaho has a young and small wine industry, with many miles to go before it achieves the success of its neighbors. But the state known for potatoes is also turning out some good wines these days.
There are three overall wine regions in Idaho (North, Southwest and Southeast), and in 2007, the state’s first official appellation, the Snake River Valley AVA (American Viticultural Area), was established. It stretches across 8,000 square miles, even crossing the state line and creeping into Oregon, and is home to 1,125 acres of Idaho vineyards. Idaho’s second appellation, Eagle Foothills AVA, was established in 2015, and the third, Lewis-Clark Valley AVA, came into being in May 2016. About three-fourths of that appellation is in Idaho, and the rest lies across the border in eastern Washington.