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FEATURED DESTINATIONS
tasting washington state
IN SEARCH OF FINE WINES & GOOD TIMES IN THE GREAT NORTHWEST
| STORY & PHOTOS BY RON JAMES |
ine country escapes to the volcanic moonscaped vineyards
are one of our favor- of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.
ite travel adventures.
We’ve tasted wine – Recently we decided it was time to
W great, good, bad and explore closer to home, taking short
ugly -- at wine tasting rooms around jaunt from San Diego to the Great Pa-
the world, from the sprawling Hunter cific Northwest via Alaskan Airlines
Valley in Australia to the Waschau Val- to Sea-Tac airport just outside Seattle.
ley of Austria; from the rolling green This week-long expedition took us back
hills of Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia to one of our favorite places in America.
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