DAY SIX - Emmett Idaho And Surrounding Wineries

From Dwayne Wright - www.dwaynewright.com

DAY SIX - Emmett Idaho And Surrounding Wineries (Oct. 3, 2007)
We decided to spend a second night in Emmett and in the morning went for a great hike in the high desert landscape. Then visited three local wineries of Ste Chapelle, Williamson Vineyard and The Winery At Eagle Knoll. A wonderful dinner with our hosts and wrapped up by watching A Night At The Museum.

I’ve only been to a dozen or so wine tasting rooms but I’d have to put the experience of these three Idaho tastings at the top of the list. In fact, April bought most of the wine on the entire trip in Idaho. None of them charged us for the tastings. Now, after we did the winery tours, we bought groceries at a local Albertsons and noticed that nearly all the wine we tasted was there and much cheaper than the discount price at the wineries themselves. Although, I did not see any of the Idaho wines at our local Ablersons in Washingon.

I thought the tasting room at the Ste Chapelle winery was excellent and we sampled about 8 wines there.Click Here To Visit Ste Chapelle Web Site

The Willamson Winery was a room off to the side of the Williamson Farm Vegetable Stand. They had a very unique array of produce, the tastings were excellent and we got to say hello to a little puppy during our visit.



Finally, The Winery At Eagle Knoll looked excellent. I bought a couple table wines there and they just were bought by new owners. The very next day they were having a massive parking lot sale of the wines the new owners did NOT purchase with the winery. We were disappointed that we were going to miss the sale until we saw that Albertsons still had those discounted prices beat. Anyway, they have a great back courtyard and hold concerts in the summer. I have to say the little bit of time we spent in Idaho was absolutely charming.