This morning we were docked at an industrial area. Next to the
boat was a junk yard and an uncruise beach with pink Flamingos
and plastic Palm Trees. How cool, this is the party boat for
sure! Our first stop after riding 30 minutes along beautiful
scenery of the Washington fruit growing region was the McClore
Wine Center. We had an excellent tasting comparing Chilean and
Washington State wines. We tasted a total of 6 wines in our
"wine class" which was lead by April, the director of the
center. We then went into the tasting room where we had 3 more
wine tastings of red wines. Our next stop was a bus trip to
Terra Blanco winery where the winery is very impressive. There
literally is millions of dollars invested in a 300 acre vineyard
where the goal is to make estate bottled wines. They have their
own grapes, they press them themselves and they ferment the
juice themselves. We toured some impressive bored out
underground cellars which were reinforced with steel framework
then sprayed with concrete. This was the barrel aging room.
It's truly amazing. We had a lovely lunch of sandwiches and
salads as well as a greeting Rose then a Cab with lunch. We
next went to the tasting room for another 6 glasses of wine
bringing our total up to 57 glasses. We had 4 glasses of wine
with April's 5 PM tasting then a glass of wine with dinner and
then an apertif. Dinner was a pecan crusted steelhead trout.
Dessert was a red velvet cheesecake. Total for the week so far
is 62 glasses. I tried to get on Republic wireless but my data
had run out for the month. Theoretically it will renew tomorrow
because they said one day left. I skipped the 8 PM presentation
and passed out in bed.