Winemaker-driven and proudly Washington. These wines skip imitation and chase grapes that only make sense here: fruit-forward, bright with acidity, and built for the dinner table.

Small Woodinville winery founded in 2005 that makes about 1,000 cases a year of Cabernet Sauvignon and red blends from Red Willow, Mays Discovery and Stillwater Creek vineyards.

A small, women-owned winery in Woodinville's Warehouse District, where winemaker Pam Adkins pours a crisp Alma Albariño, Bare Knuckle Syrah and Rosé the Riveter by the taste, glass or bottle.

Family winery run by Jarrod and Ali Boyle, growing its wines at Destiny Ridge Vineyard in the Horse Heaven Hills. Pours in Prosser, at the vineyard and in Woodinville.

Food-friendly wines with low alcohol and high acid, poured among 80 acres of vineyard, wheat fields and 4,000 lavender plants in Walla Walla. The landscape is half the reason to go.

Walla Walla Valley winery and sister to Pepper Bridge Winery, making wines from 100% estate, certified-sustainable vineyards. Celebrating its 25th year.

A Woodinville warehouse district tasting room that feels anything but industrial. Seated, guided tastings of Red Mountain wines, with as much or as little wine talk as you want.

Family-rooted wines in downtown Manson on Lake Chelan. Pull up to the wine bar or take a charcuterie board out to the patio and soak up the little lakeside town.

Family winery making small-lot Walla Walla Valley reds, led by Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. Guided tastings downtown in Walla Walla, walk-ins at its original Woodinville winery.

A Woodinville tasting room built around one promise: no wine goes out the door that the owners wouldn't pour for their own family. Made for a holiday dinner or any good table.

A tasting room inside a working winery, surrounded by the real equipment and looking straight into the barrel room. You are tasting right where it happens.

Avennia makes wines around clarity of place, type and purpose, using classic French varieties and blends and methods handed down over generations. Taste them in Woodinville.

Woodinville winery making wines from Stillwater Creek Vineyard in the Royal Slope AVA, with a public room in Woodin Creek Village and an appointment-only Warehouse room.

Baer's second Woodinville tasting room, on Wine Alley in Woodin Creek Village. It's a short walk from downtown, behind Molbak's.

Woodinville winery founded in 2006, making 100% single-varietal wines from Yakima Valley and Red Mountain fruit, pouring weekends in the Warehouse District since 2008.

Estate-grown Pinot Noir plus wines from top Washington vineyards, poured by the flight or glass in Woodinville. Small plates are available to pair.

Beaumont's Woodinville tasting room is a warm, relaxed place to settle in with a friend and taste handcrafted Columbia Valley wines. Open since 2014.

Bunnell~Newhouse's Woodinville tasting salon feels like pulling up a barstool at a friend's place. Wines from Ron Bunnell, light bites, and a flight lineup that changes every month.

Washington winery focused on European-style blends (Bordeaux, Rhône, Spanish and Tuscan styles), with a bistro and tasting room in Woodinville and a wine bar on the Vancouver waterfront.

A Columbia Gorge vineyard planted in 1986 on basalt soils above the river, farmed organically and biodynamically. The long, warm season even ripens Piedmont grapes like Nebbiolo and Barbera.

Wines in a Spanish style, made with Walla Walla fruit and poured at the Woodinville tasting room.

Taste inside the cellar itself, perched on barrel heads among stainless tanks, sometimes with wine poured straight from them. Add a smoked seafood plate or a vegan tamale and a sparkling frizzante.