About a year ago on an Alaska flight to somewhere, I think it was Hawaii but I don’t really remember, Nick and I came across an article in the in-flight magazine about a winery in Eastern Washington built to mimic SouthWestern design.  For some reason, it really struck me and I took a quick picture on my phone thinking I’d look into it more when we got home.  Well after our trip and returning home and getting back into everything, I totally forgot about it.  When I finally did remember a few weeks later, I couldn’t for the life of me find that photo and didn’t remember what the name of it was or in what town it was located.  Long story short, I let it go.

Well in January of this year, I randomly came across the photo I had taken of the article, placed in some random event folder in iPhoto and decided to check into it further.  After emailing the hotel and winery about my blog and wondering if they’d like to be featured on here, I had a weekend stay booked with them and a lovely local weekend trip on our calendar for March, which we wanted to keep local and fairly light after being in Asia for half of February.

We headed up to Prosser, Washington to Desert Wind Winery a few weeks ago to complete our stay, winding through the Columbia River Gorge, and finally crossing the border into Washington as we drove up Highway 97 through rolling hills, forests and farmland.  The scenery was gorgeous and totally different than I was expecting for that part of the state.  We arrived in Prosser in the late afternoon and began our stay at Desert Wind, which so kindly offered us complimentary wine tasting, a gorgeous room with a balcony overlooking the Yakima River, a free bottle of wine (I chose their Riesling) and an incredible Chef tasting dinner at their restaurant with a menu seemingly built for me including lamp chops, beef tenderloin and tiramisu that we got to build ourselves.  We then finished our Saturday evening by watching the sun set from our balcony and the colors that splashed across the open landscape stunning to say the least.

In short, the hotel was delightful (more to come on that tomorrow) but the landscape on our drive there and around the Prosser area was gorgeous to say the least.  With a mix of high desert and rolling hills, we were in awe the whole time.  And while this was a little bit “country” for us compared to our normal locations, it was such a nice welcome quiet weekend without the connection and chaos of the city after a very busy work week.  We will no doubt be headed back to this area and to Desert Wind in the future for a relaxing break!

Photo by Nick

Photo by Nick

Photo by Nick

Photo by Nick

Photo by Nick

Photo by Nick

Photo by Nick

Photo by Nick