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New Finds in Walla Walla
For the last several years, the first weekend in November has found my husband and me (and, often, several of our friends from around the Northwest) in Walla Walla, Washington, for the region's Fall Release Weekend. It's a wonderful time to visit, as the frenzy of harvest and crush are over, and the wineries are eager to share their newest releases . . . all of this against the backdrop of colorful fall foliage, the gold stubble of wheat fields and early dustings of snow creeping down the surrounding Blue Mountains.
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A Return to Almost-Normal Wine Tasting
My husband and I recently made our annual spring trek to the standout wine region of Walla Walla, Washington. In the past few years we've ventured there and found the wineries made substantial adjustments to their tasting rooms and events to keep their patrons safe in the COVID era. During this visit we found several of our old favorites had returned to pre-pandemic celebrations while also keeping some of the best innovations and changes that came out of the past two years. It seems they've learned that, like my husband and me, many of their patrons prefer to sit down at a table for a relaxed tasting rather than elbow their way up to a crowded bar for a quick pour while struggling to hear what the host had to say about the wine.
Wine with Friends
The first two days of our trip to Walla Walla, Washington, it was just my husband and me. While we enjoyed each other's company and sampling wonderful wines and chatting with the winemakers and tasting room staff, there was something missing. In the past our wine tasting excursions have always included at least one other couple --- and, often, a whole group of us --- whom we've known for decades and with whom we've shared life's ups and downs along with some great meals and memorable bottles of wine. So we headed out on Saturday with great excitement, knowing we'd be spending the day with longtime friends we had only seen once in person since 2019.
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A Positive Experience
Over the past few weeks I've written about my experience traveling out of state to visit one of our favorite wine regions for a scaled-back version of our annual trek there to attend Fall Release events in Walla Walla, Washington (here, here and here). In this time of COVID, we undertook the trip with great caution and a bit of trepidation, for at the beginning of November infection rates were starting to rise. Here in the Pacific Northwest they are lower than in most other parts of the country, and we knew the wineries had undertaken many procedures to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience. And while we certainly benefited from the chance to travel outside our bubble and enjoy good food and wine, we could see how much it meant to those businesses we visited that they could serve us.