About

What this is

A reference for the Walla Walla Valley: every winery, every vineyard anyone has publicly named as a fruit source, and the connections between them. It is built from what wineries say about themselves, from public maps, and from a bottle shop's sales records going back to 2018. It is not a guide to where to taste. Other people do that well.

The thing you will not find anywhere else is the sourcing. Who farms a site, who buys from it, and which wines carry its name. That information is scattered across a hundred websites and a few decades of memory. Here it is in one place, and every line shows the sentence it came from.

How it was made, and what it gets wrong

Hours, fees and winery descriptions come from public listings and from the wineries' own sites, and they carry the date they were last checked. Vineyard boundaries and acreage come from OpenStreetMap. A wine list is the union of what a winery publishes and what has passed across the counter at The Thief Fine Wine & Beer in downtown Walla Walla, which is how a 2012 bottling can appear on a page long after the winery took it off its site.

Nothing here was verified by walking the rows. A claim marked "verified" means the source said it, not that it is true. Where two sources disagree, both are shown. Where nothing is known, the page says so instead of guessing.

If something is wrong

It probably is, somewhere. If it is your winery or your vineyard, you know better than any website. Every page has a link at the bottom to send a correction. It goes to a person, not a form, and a fix usually lands within the week. Corrections from a grower or winemaker are marked as such on the page.

Who made it

Kyle Pottorff, who owns The Thief in Walla Walla and has spent a long time listening to people in this valley talk about where their fruit comes from. The shop's records fill in the back catalog. The shop does not decide what goes on these pages.