Ron Wurzer

Wine

   
Garrison Creek Cellars winery located among Les Collines Vineyard.
  
Bill Owen, OS Winery winemaker and avid bikerider.
     
  
Modern Novelty Hill and Januik Wineries and tasting room.
   
Hand sorting grapes at Betz Family Winery.
  
Grape processing at Dusted Valley Vinters.
     
  
Fermenting wine is pumped from the bottom of the tank to the top for an even fermentation at Dusted Valley Vintners.
  
Grapes being sorted and prepped before being crushed for Dusted Valley Vintners.
  
Bergevin Lane Vineyards fermenting tanks.
     
  
Bergevin Lane Vineyards fermenting tanks.
  
Shannon Jones, center, of Hestia Cellars fills up barrels with the help of an assistant.
  
Mack and Sam put grapes into the crusher at OS Winery.
     
  
A grape-picker at Klipsun Vineyards, Red Mountain AVA, WA.
  
Shannon Jones, winemaker at Hestia Cellars gets ready to crush grape skins.
  
Walulla Vineyard, looking east.
     
  
   
Reisling grape vines at Wallula Vineyards.
  
Crushed wine being filtered of skins at Hestia Cellars.
     
  
A grape-picker at Wallula Vineyards with Reisling grapes.
  
Grape-picker hands at Walllula Vineyards with Reisling grapes.
  
Paul Golitzen of Quilceda Creek Vintners loads Cabernet Sauvignon grapes into the hopper to be crushed.
     
  
Topping of barrels at Hestia Cellars.
  
Red grape vines late in the season.
  
K Vintners tasting room.
     
  
Late season picked vines.
  
The bottom of a stainless steel grape crusher after a crush at L'Ecole No 41.
  
L'Ecole No 41 Tasting Room is located in a former schoolhouse dating to 1915.
     
  
Mechanized grape harvest of Reisling grapes at Wallula Vineyard for Pacific Rim Winery.
  
Nota Bene Cellars winemaker Tim Narby preparing a second pressing of grapes.
  
Juice flows from the second pressing at Nota Bene Cellars.
     
  
View of Desert Hill Vineyard looking south towards Horse Heaven Hills in Yakima Valley.
  
Novelty Hill and Januik Winery Barrelroom.
  
Recirculating of fermenting wine at Novelty Hill Januik Winery.
     
  
Tools of the trade at Cougar Crest Winery.
  
Hand stacked barrels at OS Winery.
  
Barrelroom at OS Winery.
     
  
Bill Owen and his son Mack Owen of OS Winery preparing to move juice.
  
Mack Owen of OS Winery punching down fermenting grapes.
  
Nicolas Quille, winemaker of Pacific Rim Winery.
     
  
Chateau Ste. Michelle winery store.
  
Reisling grapes from Yakima Valley.
  
Hand-picking Reisling grapes at Wallula Vineyard.
     
  
Alex Golitzen, winemaker at Quilceda Creek Vintners.
  
Filtering of juice at Robert Ramsey Cellars.
  
Kristen does a punch down of fermenting wine at Robert Ramsey Cellars.
     
  
Moving juice from a fermenting tank to barrels at Robert Ramsey Cellars.
  
Bottling at OS Winery.
  
Putting the foil on bottles during bottling at Mark Ryan Winery.
     
  
Bottling conyeyor belt as Mark Ryan Winery bottles his 2010 "The Dissident", a red blend.
  
Bottling conyeyor belt as Mark Ryan Winery bottles his 2010 "The Dissident", a red blend.
  
N. Sunset Road runs through the center of Red Mountain AVA.
     
  
Red Willow Vineyard features a chapel hand built by owner Mike Sauer and was first planted in 1971.
  
Cabernet Sauvignon grape vines at Red Willow.
  
Reisling grapes almost ready for harvest.
     
  
Bill Den Hoed, co-owner of Den Hoed Wne Estates and Wallula Vineyard.
  
Wallula Vineyard, located right above the Columbia River.
  
Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery.
     
  
Benson Vineyards Estate Winery, located in Chelan AVA seen in winter with the Cascades Mountains.