Our editors' picks for the essential Puget Sound & Islands wineries and tasting rooms, and why each one earns the stop.
Every list like this is an argument. Ours favors rooms that express what makes Puget Sound & Islands itself: urban Seattle cellars, ferry-ride island tasting rooms and the 1995 AVA's rare cool-climate grapes - Madeleine Angevine, Siegerrebe and Pinot Noir grown west of the mountains.
The anchor is easy: Bainbridge Island, where the AVA's modern story began with 1977 plantings a short walk from the ferry, and three rooms still pour island fruit.
ride the Bainbridge ferry from downtown Seattle and taste at Eleven, Eagle Harbor and Perennial Vintners, then decide whether the next trip is Whidbey's Langley cluster or a San Juans weekend
Saturday for the Bainbridge ferry triangle and an evening SODO pour, Sunday for Whidbey - Langley's rooms, Dancing Fish at Freeland and the farm stops north
Every winery we track in the region, each with its own page.
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