How Woodinville Became Washington Wine Country
This suburban corner of King County on the east side of Lake Washington has developed into a home for more than 130 wineries and tasting rooms. Some are within walking distance of each other, but all are just a short drive away and within easy reach of the 3.8 million people living in the Seattle metropolitan area.
So yes, the 14th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. is officially wine country, even though nearly all of the 58,000 acres of vineyards are under the blue skies of the Columbia Valley — a three-hour drive east over the Cascade Mountains. (Yakima Herald)