A few weeks ago the hubby and I were invited to a wine club dinner at the Estates Wine Room. A chef from a Seattle restaurant we love called “the Tillikum Place Cafe” was creating a meal to pair with some wines from Double Canyon and the winemaker Kate Michaud would be there as well. We have walked the route by Estates Wine Room umpteen times on the way to Sounders games but I hadn’t noticed it as we always have kids in tow. Since this event was for the 21 and over crowd (and so is this post), it was a nice excuse to invite my parents to babysit and the hubby and I headed out on a beautiful Seattle evening to Pioneer Square (we even took the bus on the way there and had the nicest driver in Seattle!).
The Estates Wine Room is located across from two of my favorite places in Pioneer Square, the London Plane and Caffe Umbria. Inside it has gorgeous exposed brick walls and outside there are tall tables that you can stop by and have a glass of wine on sunny days. The tasting room is open 12-6pm and a wine and cheese experience costs around $40. The night we visited, the tasting room was decked out with two long tables and white linens and it seemed like a cozy but beautiful place to host a dinner.
The neatest thing I learned from the dinner is that many of the people who were dining with us were part of a Wine Club hosted by the winery. This wine club is a membership where clients buy either a 6 bottle or 12 bottle shipment twice a year for an average of $350 or $700 a shipment plus shipping. With the membership, they get access to discounted tastings and visits to the Estates Wine Room with friends and discounts on dinners like the one the hubby and I attended. I have heard of wine clubs before but I thought they only sent wine to you, I didn’t realize there was a social aspect to this kind of club.
We met some lovely people, ate some delicious food and we learned about Double Canyon Wine from Kate, the maker herself, while we tasted different types and different years. This was such a fun way to spend an evening with the hubby and on our Uber ride home we talked about how this would be a fun thing to do with friends and how it would be so cool to to visit the actual Double Canyon Winery in Richland one day and see where all the baby grapes get turned into wine too.
(PS. I was invited to the Estates Wine Room for this dinner and as always the opinions and writing in this blog are mine.)
Terumi Pong is a Seattle-based family travel writer and mom of twin teenage boys. She loves coffee and pastries, shopping local and looking for greener ways to live. She is also known as Scout’s mom (Scout is a 5ish pound little black yorkie-poo)
Sounds super fun!I’ll definitely have to check out the tasting room next time I’m in the area.
Sounds like this would be a fun date night! I’ll have to share with my Seattle friends.