Wine Club Member Spotlight

Williamson Vineyards is thankful for the loyal support of our wine club! This next year we are going to share a little about a few of our most supportive members. We can’t do what we do without our amazing wine club ambassadors. Cheers!

Dan and Candi Puga
This cute couple has been in the Sunnyslope area and have known each other since kindergarten! They have raised a beautiful family and are very active in the local community. They have been members at Williamson’s for roughly 10 years!

 How did you find Williamson Orchards & Vineyards? The current Williamson siblings were a few years younger than us in school and we also attended church with the family. One day around our 20th anniversary, we took a drive around Sunnyslope area, and were pleasantly surprised that wineries were popping up all around the area. Going to the wineries has became a weekend date tradition.

Why did you become a member? I’m not exactly sure our joining date, but it was one of our early memberships. The picture (above on left) in front of the old fruitstand shed and tasting room was May of 2015, a beautiful Mother’s Day. We later used that picture for our 25th wedding party invite!

Tell us about some of your experiences at Williamson’s. We appreciate the welcoming service even during the difficult season of covid. To this day, Williamson’s is one of our favorite stops along the Sunnyslope wine trail and we love the new conveniently located tasting room.

What are some of your favorite wines? Williamson’s provides a wide variety of wines that we both enjoy and love. Dan tends to taste the reds and I stick with the rosés or whites. Some of our favorite wines include Sangiovese, Red Blends, Petite Sirah, Dry Riesling, Blossom, and Lilly White.

Yummy Quick Pizza Bites

Why not put that amazing air fryer you have to good use by making a crispy and delightful treat? We think pizza is a food group all on its own and deserves to be eaten as a snack, appetizer, or dinner. Use this recipe as a template and substitute your favorite pizza toppings. Pineapple & ham would be delicious paired with Albariño, Riesling, or Harvest Moon Red. Maybe you have a bottle of Cabernet or Homestead Red, then make your topping pepperoni. Have fun and explore some new wine and pizza pairings. Cheers!

Air Fryer Pizza Bites

  • 2 sheets frozen puff pastry- thawed overnight in refrigerator
  • 1/4 cup pizza sauce (more to taste, but not enough to be soggy)
  • 3.5 oz. shredded ham
  • 8 oz. can pineapple chunks in juice, well drained
  • 2/3 cup shredded pizza cheese
  • Quantities are guidelines, you might want more or less of each ingredient.

Preheat your airfryer to 350°F. Spray the basket of your air fryer with non stick cooking spray. Use a 3in. round cutter to cut 9 discs from each pastry sheet. Or  if you don’t want to waste any pastry, cut into small squares with a sharp knife. Place on prepared basket/tray. Spread evenly with pizza sauce. Top with ham, pineapple and cheese.

Bake for 10 – 15 mins or until cheese melts and base is crisp.

Pro Tip: make sure all your topping ingredients are already cooked before putting them on the puff pastry to prevent a soggy crust.
Enjoy!

Alaska Airlines lets Idaho Wine Fly Free

Great deal for taking wine on Alaska Airlines


The Idaho Wine Commission has brokered a terrific partnership with Alaska Airlines. You may have heard that Alaska Airlines has agreed to allow their Mileage Plan™ members, to check a case of Idaho wines at no additional cost.

They have now added another bonus which Williamson Vineyards is participating in:

When consumers show their Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan membership and in-bound boarding pass (paper or digital) to winery tasting room staff, they receive one complimentary tasting at that location.
The Idaho Wine Commission has more details, click here.

Grapevines Sleeping Sweetly

Harvest is over and the weather has been cooperative so that our vines have safely gone to sleep, to rest and get ready for the next growing season. Our vineyard guys have been busy getting all the harvest paraphernalia put away for another year.

While the leaves where still green on our vines this fall, they where sending valuable carbohydrates into the woody trunk and roots as fuel to get the vines through the quiet winter months. This reserve is essential to keep the vines fed until they wake from their winter sleep and send leaves out to allow photosynthesis to generate the spring growth to begin another year.

Sleep well, little vines and we’ll see you mid-winter for a bit of trimming.

2020 Albariño Receives Double Platinum

We have received a wonderful acknowledgement of our delicious 2020 Albariño with a Double Platinum from Great Northwest Wine. It’s available for purchase right now, check out the webstore here for more details. Of course, we love to see you in the tasting room too! If you’re interested in what Great Northwest Wine has to say about our award winning Albariño, check out their details here.

 

Vineyard Update – November 2021

Vineyard Update

In the vineyards, we have our crews working to prep the vineyards for winter. This means planting our cover crop, taking down any bird nets left from harvest, and checking (and if necessary) repairing the trellis wire to be ready for the pre-pruning machine in January. Plus any other last minute cleanup that we need to finish before the snow flies.

Our crews have worked hard this year, putting in long hours to get all the work done before the freezing temps move in to put the vines to sleep for another year.

Cheers!

Mike & Patrick Williamson
The Vineyard Guys

Christmas 2021 Case Sale

Christmas Case Sale

Giving a bottle of wine from your local winery is a perfect gift for so many people and occasions around the holidays. So get in on our annual Christmas Case Sale!

Make your holidays merry when you build a case of your favorite wines at 20% off!
Wine Club members save 30% off their cases!

This promotion is valid 11/26/2021 – 12/12/2021.

As an added bonus for your gift giving, we offer local delivery for purchases of 6 bottles or more.
Our delivery range includes Boise, Garden City, Star, Eagle, Meridian, Middleton, Caldwell, Nampa, Kuna, Homedale and Marsing. If you are outside of these towns, get ahold of us (208.459.7333 or email) and we’ll see what we can do. Please keep in mind that someone over 21 years of age must receive the wine. Idaho State Police will not allow us to leave unattended alcohol on your doorstep.

We can ship too! Check with us to verify which states are available to us.

“Wine Club only” wine limitations still apply. Excludes – Library wines.
No other discounts apply.

Virtual Happy Hour – November 11

Build the Perfect Charcuterie Board

Dress it up or dress it down, we can show you how to build a delicious (and wine friendly) charcuterie board for your every need.

We’ve created a PDF of our outline for this happy hour. VHH Nov 2021-Charcuterie.pdf

We have some announcements about releasing wine and Fall Barrel Weekend and the “Charcuterie” section starts at about 9.40mn.

Virtual Happy Hour – October 7

We had a special request for our Virtual Happy Hour from a wine fan. They had questions about the storing of wine, and thought we could help. Please watch the video for  our suggestions.

 

We start with talking about upcoming winery events and new releases, Wine Storage and Transportation starts at about the 8.20 min. mark.

 

New Wine Releases!

We’ve got some tasty wines back on the shelves!

2020 Dry Riesling –  A clear, bright, pale straw colored wine, this is beautiful in the glass. Aromas of minerality and jasmine at first whiff, it completes with sweet notes of pear and lychee. This silky wine has  flavors of pineapple and peach milkshake, and harbors hints of slate on the mid-palate and finishes with floral notes.

2019 Homestead Red (Wine Club Only) – 66% Cabernet, 34% Syrah
A deep opaque garnet with blue undertones, this wine promises a lush mouthful. Dark cherry and baked berry crisp leads on the nose with hints of bramble and wet slate. Plummy cherry preserves explode this big fruity wine onto the palate, and is balanced with bright acid and firm tannins. This is a chewy wine with a long finish.

2019 Petite Sirah (Wine Club Only) – Gorgeous ruby tones and opaque in the glass, the aromas of raspberry, blueberry, prune are balanced with a light dusting of white pepper and earthiness tease the nose. Firm tannins are balanced with a medium astringency creating a soft mouth feel. Flavors of raspberry and cherry jello, are balanced  with hints of pistachio and white pepper on  the palate end with a long finish of earth and blackberry jam and seed.

Click here to for more information and pricing.

Wine club members, please remember to  sign into your account in the webstore to see wine club only wines and receive your special pricing.