Along the Wine Road - Long Shadows Vintners Builds Walla Walla Winery
Long Shadows Vintners recently broke ground on their new wine production facility in Walla Walla. The $4.2 million dollar, state-of-the-art winery is designed to accommodate the exacting standards and varied winemaking practices of Long Shadows’ international winemakers.
The 30,000 sq. ft. small-lot production winery sits on a 40-acre site on Ireland Road, three miles northwest of the Walla Walla city limits off Hwy. 12. The new winery will allow resident winemaker Gilles Nicault to work along side each of Long Shadows’ winemakers to sort, crush, and ferment wines according to each winemakers’ preferred methods which are as varied as the wines and vintners themselves.
Mountain States Construction is heading up the project and is expected to complete the construction by this Fall. Long Shadows founder, owner and CEO Allen Shoup continues to look to the future of Long Shadows and its international winemaking talents.
As Shoup explains, “Each winery’s case production is extremely limited, but as production slowly grows we plan to build a new, stand-alone facility for each wine.” Long Shadows is also in the process of reviewing sites for varietal-specific vineyard plantings that would make ideal locations for the individual wineries.
For more information on the wines and acclaimed vintners of Long Shadows and this project, visit their Web site at www.longshadows.com.
From JUICE, The Latest on Washington Wine Country, April 2006
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