Happiness at Home

To a happy person, the formula for happiness is quite simple. Regardless of what happened early this morning, last week, or last year—or what may happen later this evening, tomorrow, or three years from now—now is where happiness lies.  – Richard Carlson

Summer sunset in Zillah with a view of Mount Adams

Alaska Airlines < 3 Washington Wine

….and right back at em, Washington Wines < 3 Alaska Airlines. A recent partnershipbetween Alaska Airlines and Yakima Valley Visitors and Convention Bureau is making travelling with wine that much easier:  

“Passengers who bring a case of wine that is packaged according to airline standards can check it for free at the Yakima Airport as of Sept. 1, thus saving up to $65.”

Check it?! Like… for free?!  Like a lot of wineries, we’ve got shippers and inserts to make it even easier. Find more information about the Taste and Tote program here.

Where will you be Sunday at 10am?

It’s not often that Zillah is mentioned as an epicenter, so when it was mentioned as The Epicenter (okay, the capitals may not have been necessary) of the Rattlesnake Hills in this month’s feature article about a weekendwine getaway to our very own AVA, we thought it was noteworthy enough to share. The two day tour they put together takes readers from the Yakima Greenway though eight Zillah wineries (Cultura and Portteus Wineries included) restaurants, B&Bs, and Two Mountain Winery somewhere in the middle. Yep, yep! We got a couple good paragraphs and a nice photo of Gus (ever the guard dog) laying out in front of the tasting room, which the writer qualified as an unpretentious “World War II airplane hangar” – alright, we’ll take it!

And for the moments that you're not sipping and swirling, tasting and touring, this is also pretty cool: 

Dog's Life is Difficult

A particularly sad yellow Lab was telling his troubles to his friend. "I'm depressed. I think negative thoughts. I'm always bored and always tired."

"Why not go see a psychiatrist?" suggested the friend.

"Well, I would," said the Lab, "except that I'm not allowed on the couch."

The Riesling's Getting Ready...

As our entire digital personal histories chill in Facebook’s new sub-zero storage unit not too far away, Two Mountain’s 2011 Riesling is doing something very similar in our own refrigerated storage unit… in anticipation for tomorrow’s Case of the Blues and All That Jazz. We are not, as Facebook appears to be, preparing for an impending apocalypse, but for an awesome night and another year’s excuse to bust a few dance moves and air guitar riffs, and hang out on a hot summer’s night with all of our friends at Sarg Hubbard Park. Which red we decide to pour, well… you’ll just have to stop by the table and see for yourself.

Until tomorrow!