This Friday April 3, 2009, The Wine House is featuring a wine tasting with special guest Rich Marshall, a represenative of Maryhill Winery. For $10.00 per person we will be tasting 22 award wining wines.
Maryhill Winery is on the edge of a cliff overlooking the grand Columbia Gorge and provides an inspiring view of Mount Hood to the Southwest. The facility is just outside of the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area.
The most enjoyable aspect of Maryhill is the wide variety of grapes the area will support-including several difficult-to-grow varietals. Contracting with growers all throughout the lower Columbia Gorge to select premier vineyards to produce wine showcasing the rich and pleasurable flavors of this unique growing region. Maryhill produces 18 different varietals and 27 different wines.
In 2001, Craig & Vicki Leuthold (pictured left) opened Maryhill Winery. They started with 4,300 cases of wine from the 1999 vintage. The wines were delicious.
The history and the beauty of the land has caused the Leuthold’s to have bigger dreams. They built a 4,000 seat ampitheater just below the winery. It is the idea of listening to great music, sipping wine and watching the sun set over the Cascades.
The Leuthold’s have been able to exceed their goals by turning them into a premiere destination winery in the Pacific Northwest and was named 2009 Washington Winery of the Year!
Today Maryhill has grown to 80,000 cases of wine, making it the state’s 15th largest winery.
- Craig & Vicki Leuthold
