Waving Tree Vineyard & Winery

Since our last visit they completed their renovation and the tasting room is much more spacious now. So many of the wines here are good, they are all estate wines (except I believe one, but I forget which one it was) and most of them are in the $ 20 range. If you are a wino and in the area this is definitely the LAST place I would stop because they have TWENTY-​FIVE wines for you to taste for $ 5. It’s insane. Designate a driver, and bring a sandwich.

We found Waving Tree winery by accident last year and had such a wonderful experience with their Barbera wine that we made this part of this year’s vacation plans. This year when we came to the winery it had been completely remodeled on the outside and the inside making it much more inviting. We had an excellent tasting of a large flight of wines from a gentleman named Joshua who was pleasant and knowledgeable as well as passionate about the wines they make. Their wines are uniformly drinkable with a good differentiation between labels and some subtle notes which we expect to open more when aerated. In our opinion their wines are underpriced and a great value. This is a family run winery with the Dad (Terrance) being the winemaker and his two children and a few others doing a lot of the other work of making some very excellent wines. This is just around the corner from Maryhill winery which we didn’t even go to this year. Instead we bought two cases of premium wine from our new friends at Waving Tree.

Excellent wine. Excellent people and service. We very much enjoyed the tasting room and bought a couple of bottles!

The wine was excellent we ended up buying four bottles! Two dessert wines, a Petite Syrah, and a Nebbiolo. They had easily 20 different wines for tasting and all of them were estate wines except one. Mom and I enjoy the dessert wines and we tasted 4 – 5 different dessert wines! Such a great selection, do yourself a favor and go!
Family owned and operated as far as I can tell. The wine maker was the man who gave us our tasting and his wife took our money. She said the son was in the fields tending the grapes and the daughter was working on the remodeling for their tasting room. Such nice people!

Best red wine tasting we have had yet great job on their blends. Right off the highway and is also the visitor center.

This was the last winery along the Columbia River. After wine tastings at four other wineries, this was a delightful find. Although, a bit hard to find, we missed the turn off, but eventually found it. I’m glad we didn’t give up. It is a tiny tasting room in a small parking lot right next to the Mary Hill State Park entrance. We were lucking to spend time with the owner, Terrance, who answered all our questions and we learned more about the different grapes that are harvested in this family run winery. We were surprised how much we enjoyed the wines here. This was the only place where I could actually detect the different aromas of each wine. We enjoyed the 2008 Nebbiolo-​World Wine Awards 88, The Works — World Wine Awards 90, 2008 Barbera –World Wine Awards 89 so much we bought 2 cases of a variety of different wines that were reasonable priced that we are enjoying immensely now that we are back at home in Seattle.
We spent last summer wine tasting in Napa Valley but this area has some great wineries, too, and this winery was top on our list.

The wine from here takes me to my happy place. The sangiovese, 2007 & 2008 Barbera and DELICIOUS! The tasting room is super cute and the owners are delightful. Take a trip to this place, buy some wine, join the wine club and become a happy camper.

We have discovered Waving Tree at the pre — Passport Weekend function in Portland and really liked their wine and their attitude.
So we wanted to visit them during the Passport Weekend. Easy enough… looked them up on the map… are you kidding me? They were the very last winery in the Columbia Gorge.
The yummy wine still lingered on our taste buds and so we went. It was our first time driving past Hood River and let me tell you, we loved it! The Gorge is completely different the more east you go. Beautiful hills, elegant windmills, the trees give in to shrubs and desert-​like landscape.
The tasting room is a cute little wood cabin and the winery is just past that, through fruit orchard.
They have nice wine selection and most of the wines that we liked had this delicious spiciness… hmm.
Needless to say, we became members of the wine club — our first ever, are we adults or what?

What?! No reviews for this place? I actually just searched for them on Unilocal after being enchanted by their juicy sangiovese this past weekend. It was everything I’ve ever hoped and dreamed of in a fruity red. The bottle looks cheesy and sort of hippie gimmicky. I would have never selected this wine on my own, however, I was recommended by some Washingtonian wine experts and voila, I have found my new favorite Washingtonian wine.