Gallery: Wine Science Center at WSU Tri-Cities
Scenes from the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine Science Center at the Tri-Cities.
Read more in “A perfect vessel for wine research.”
Photos by Zach Mazur
Scenes from the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine Science Center at the Tri-Cities.
Read more in “A perfect vessel for wine research.”
Photos by Zach Mazur
by Hannelore Sudermann
At Karma Vineyards, where grapevines pour down the hillside toward the southern shore of Lake Chelan, a 3,000-square-foot cave holds the next few years’ of sparkling wine.
Three different grapes from the 14 acres of vines go into the bubbly: Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier. They’re treated much the same way they would be in the Champagne region of France, where the complex and labor-intensive method of making sparkling wine was perfected.
“The méthode champenoise is worth the work,” says Julie Pittsinger ’06, who owns Karma with her husband Bret. They opened Karma’s doors in … » More …
“The whole concept has burgeoned ... to one where the landscape is part of why people select to live in certain locations, has political meaning, has religious meaning, has all of these other kinds of meaning.”
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