Details:
Business Name: Perennial Vintners, LLC
Wine brands: Perennial Vintners
Address: 8840 NE Lovgreen Rd., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110, USA
Phone: 206-780-2146
Fax: 206-780-2146 (call ahead voice, request fax machine be put online)
Website: http://PerennialVintners.com/
email: click here to send email to office at perennialvintners
Production (cases/yr): 180 (not a typo -- one hundred eighty)
One sentence-summary: A tiny family estate winery, specializing in cool climate aromatic wines, local to Seattle WA.
Products: Dry white wines, dessert port-style berry wines.
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Blurb:
Perennial Vintners is a tiny family run estate winery on
Bainbridge Island, Washington state, USA. Just across Puget Sound
from Seattle, PV is the closest commercial vineyard to downtown
Seattle restaurants, just 7 miles for the local restaurant
afficienado. Being in a cool maritime climate, PV specializes in
highly aromatic delicate wines with the bracing acidity that makes
for ideal food wines. Newer releases include berry port-style
dessert wines.
Husband and wife team Mike Lempriere and Beth Schoenberg first
made wine as amateurs in 1997. Early on, Mike was declared to
have a gift for winemaking; with a large circle of winemaker
friends for advice, lots of studying, and a WSU certificate in
Viticulture, Mike has pursued and is an excellent winemaker.
Unfortunately, Beth has no longer shares the dream and with a
divorce in 2010, the winery is now all Mike and a handful of
volunteers.
Perennial opened as a commercial winery in 2006. With vineyards
planted in 2004, and lease agreements with nearby vineyards,
Perennial also has "old vine" products, with some of WA States
older vines, planted in the early 1980's. (Doesn't sound like
much, but for WA state, 30 years is old!) The target demographic
is the "locavore" community; PV is very proud that it uses only
Puget Sound AVA fruit, consistently emphasizing Seattle area local
product matches in food pairings.
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