On the way home from our most recent trip to Walla Walla last month, my husband and I recounted each of our trips to the valley since our first in 2008: 11 for him, 12 for me. That’s an average of three visits per year. But no matter how often we travel to the Walla […]
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Meet Chef Heidi Varney of the Woodward Canyon Reserve House
In the little town of Lowden, about 13 miles west of Walla Walla off Highway 12, sits Woodward Canyon, one of the Valley’s oldest wineries, started by Rick Small and his wife, Darcey Fugman-Small, in 1981. While its wines–particularly the Artist Series–have been drawing me to its charming little tasting room in a restored 1870’s […]
Walla Walla: A Place of Memories, Old and New
I’m in that space between trips, with my past and future visits to wine country like bookends on either end of my day-to-day life here in Seattle. True, I’m a city girl through and through, but for the past few years an impossible dream of moving out to Eastern Washington has been taking form. So […]