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Boutique Wineries and Their Signature Wines
Advocate, Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, and in other local and national
reviews. There's a waiting list for Membership in the winery's Collectors Club.
Adams Bench produces 1,000 cases a year of Cabernet Sauvignon and
Cabernet blends, routinely makes Sangiovese, ,and occasionally other single
varietal wines from fruit typically reserved for blending, all reds, no whites.
Daughter Hannah Lewis works with the Blues as Assistant Winemaker.
Each year Collectors Club Members and guests look forward to the latest
vintage of the winery's flagship wines, Columbia Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
"the V" and Columbia Valley "Reckoning,"– served multiple times at the
concluding dinner of the Microsoft CEO Summit, the annual gathering in
Seattle of world leaders and Fortune 500 CEOs–along with an impressive
lineup of single vineyard Cabernets.
LEFT: Late summer hot air balloon over Hollywood Hill, Adams Bench Winery.
Photograph courtesy of Adams Bench Winery
ABOVE: Looking west over the winery courtyard toward the Olympic Mountains during
harvest season.
Photograph by Sheri Solvang Nohle
BELOW: Winery dogs Freddy and Grace in the Winery tasting room.
Photograph by Julie Austin