Red Lion Hotel Yakima, Wine Tasting Nearby
Yakima Winery Tasting Rooms Cluster Around Downtown Hotels
Mar 5, 2009
Travelers to the Yakima area enjoy the downtown Yakima wineries. Since Washington's wine country has seen more tasting rooms popping up in recent months, wine tasting and wine clubs have become a popular downtown attraction. Guests at the Red Lion Hotel Yakima, or any other hotel in Yakima's downtown area have several options when it comes to choosing a winery or wine club to join.
Red Lion Hotel Yakima
The Red Lion Hotel was the first of many recently added hotels to grace the Yakima skyline. Since 2006, several more hotels have been built in the downtown Yakima area. Another hotel in Yakima that's popular with the wine tasting tours and winery vacations is the downtown Yakima Fairfield Inn and the Ledgestone, which opened in early 2009.
Wine Clubs and Downtown Yakima Attractions
Joining a wine club can help consumers save money on the finer Yakima wines. Each month, Yakima wineries send club members a bottle of wine. Downtown hotels are quick to offer wine-tasting advice, maps to downtown Yakima wineries and other famous Yakima, Washington attractions, like the Toppenish Mural Tours, the Yakima Valley Museum and Russillo's Pizza and Gelato, home of Washington State's largest hand-tossed pizza.
Yakima Winery Tasting Rooms
In the downtown area, visitors can walk safely at night, from one Washington winery tasting room to another. Just in the downtown area, wine tour travelers can visit the Donitelia Winery, Gilbert Cellars, Kana Winery, Masset Downtown Cellars, Plaza Socievole and more. When it comes time to dine out, Yakima's downtown restaurants often have intuitive wine lists and menu items paired with wines, to make ordering easier.
Wine Tasting at Washington Wineries
Many visitors to Washington's Wine Country prefer to drive out to the vineyards and enjoy the wine at the actual winery, instead of at the wine tasting rooms. The Rattlesnake Hills Wine trail is a great resource, with maps and driving directions to each winery. It's a nice neat package that visitors prefer. Country roads can wind and turn, and without a map, “a day of wine tasting” can easily turn into “driving in circles around a cow pasture.”
Since the downtown hotels in the Yakima, Washington area lie along two highways, State Highway 12 and Interstate 82, the downtown hotels often serve as a central location whether you're visiting the lower valley wineries or the upper valley wineries. Local wine enthusiasts recommend that guests sample both, because each has a distinctively different profile, and only by sampling them can you appreciate the variant nuances that give each their character. Yakima hotels provide guests with resources like wine trail maps, and winery recommendations.
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