About Chateau Ste. Michelle
Washington's founding winery on 105 wooded acres near Seattle — the estate that pioneered vinifera grape growing in Washington State since 1954 produc
Michelle is Washington State's founding winery and the institution most responsible for establishing the Pacific Northwest as a serious wine-producing region.
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Michelle is WashingtonMichelle is Washington State's founding winery and the institution most responsible for establishing the Pacific Northwest as a serious wine-producing region.
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The estate tracesThe estate traces its roots to 1934 — the year after Prohibition ended — and has been producing premium vinifera wines under the Chateau Ste.
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Michelle label sinceMichelle label since 1967, when legendary winemaker André Tchelistcheff helped shape the Washington wine identity that the state has built into an international reputation over five decades.
"Washington's founding winery on 105 wooded acres near Seattle — the estate that pioneered vinifera grape growing in Wash"
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Featured Wines
Riesling
Eroica Riesling
Columbia Valley / Eroica Estate
The collaboration that changed Washington wine's global reputation — Eroica Riesling produced with Ernst Loosen of Germany's Dr. Loosen estate combining Washington's Columbia Valley terroir with German Riesling expertise in one of the world's most distinctive and consistently 92–96 point expressions of this variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Columbia Valley / Canoe Ridge
Chateau Ste. Michelle's premium Bordeaux expression — single-vineyard Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon from Canoe Ridge and Cold Creek estate vineyards demonstrating what Washington's Columbia Valley warm desert days and cool nights consistently produce in California's most commercially important red variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Merlot
Merlot
Columbia Valley
Washington's most consistently produced and food-compatible Merlot — Chateau Ste. Michelle's Columbia Valley estate expression showing what the warm desert days and cool nights of Eastern Washington's most comprehensively irrigated and managed wine terrain produce in this Bordeaux variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Chardonnay
Chardonnay
Columbia Valley
Washington's founding winery's most broadly accessible white expression — Columbia Valley Chardonnay from Chateau Ste. Michelle's estate partnerships showing the food-first, balanced character that 60+ years of Washington winemaking expertise produces in California's most popular white variety from the Columbia River corridor.
Estate
★★★★☆
Tasting Experiences
Book on Tock →Daily Walk-In Tasting
Daily walk-in at Washington's founding winery on 105 historic wooded acres near Seattle — Eroica Riesling, Columbia Valley Cabernet, and Merlot in the most comprehensively appointed and historically significant winery destination in the Pacific Northwest. Summer concert series on the 1912 chateau grounds.
$25
Private Salon Tasting
Limited-release and single-vineyard wines in a private tasting salon — five small-production Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and white wines in a newly designed private setting at the historic Woodinville chateau. Thursday–Saturday 1:30pm.
$30
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