Yakima Valley AVA turns 30

摘要

If Walter Clore was the father of the Washington wine industry, William Bridgman was the grandfather. The Yakima Valley appellation, the state's largest and oldest winegrape-producing region, is known as the backbone of Washington State's wine grape industry. But in recent years, the region's achievements have gone largely unnoticed by a media more focused on newer wine areas in the state. The Yakima Valley AVA represents a large swath of land that follows the Yakima River, encompassing parts of twocounties and three sub-appellations. The AVA's boundaries begin in the north at Union Gap and reach south to Benton City, including Red Mountain. Its western boundary is the Cascade Mountain Range and to the east are the Rattlesnake Hills.