Generations Winery
About
A "Garage Winery". I have 6 varieties of 2013 red wine available now. I grew up in a commercial fishing family that made wine. In looking for a way to retire from commercial fishing, I decided to transition from a hobby garage winery to a licensed and bonded garage winery.
Location Description
Located in the heart of Shoreline, Washington.
Features
- Try my wine. Experience my voice. Jumper wine.
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History
As a fisherman, I was often cold, wet and tired. I can remember feeling like I needed toothpicks to prop my eyelids open. We couldn’t take a nap just because we were tired. That’s not what fishermen did. And yet, by not allowing my eyes to close, I witnessed some of the most awe inspiring - beautiful scenery in the world. Places so beautiful the world seems right on the edge of your eyeballs. Like you are a part of nature. Part of the world all around you.
And yet it was a hard life, go figure. That close to beauty, and yet every fiber of my body wanted to scream. Get out of there. Get some sleep. Do something different. You don’t want to be a fisherman anymore. But I couldn’t. Because I loved it. Loved the challenge. Loved every aspect of it.
How do these traits transfer to wine making? Making wine, in many ways, is like fishing in Alaska. Both take patience, perseverance and hard work. In fishing, it takes patience to endure the extreme highs and lows and stay even keeled. Stay even keeled so you can catch as many fish as you possibly can.
In wine making, it takes patience to make adjustments to the wine and then wait a year or two to see how the adjustments affected the wine. For generations my family has been making wine. That has fueled my desire to make wine commercially.
In a perfect place, I would not say anything. Just step aside and let the wine be my voice. But they say I have to write. They say you could write the best song in the world and if no one listened to it, what good would it be?