June 14, June 28 and July 26 Open 1PM-4PM
Come taste our new releases, or pick up wine you already own.

August 23rd: Summer Release Party 2PM-6PM
Save the date to come by and taste the wine, also pick up your 2006 Reserved Releases!

June 19: Adams Bench is pouring at the Woodinville Women and Wine event at Willows Lodge – for more information see http://www.woodinvillewinediva.com/

Passport to Woodinville, 2008

"Once again, the day of Reckoning was here for winemakers and owners of Adams Bench, Erica and Tim Blue. Like last year, they were pouring two pre-release wines(2006 Reckoning and 2006 Reserve Cab "V"), and one available for immediate purchase(2005 Horse Heaven Hills Red). The wines can be purchased at their website: http://www.adamsbench.com/ These three wines were amazing. My notes include "awesome", "yum", purple, beautiful, chocolate, mushroom and black fruit.

This year Tim told me five of their secrets:

1) Erica switched from medicine to winemaking and thus, from bringing human babies into the world, to bringing wine into the world. I've often contended that raising vines and wines is very similar to raising children;

2) they studied enology at U.C. Davis and thus have a thorough understanding of the chemistry of wine;

3) they have a great winemaking consultant - Chris Camarda over at Andrew Will;

4) they look for physiological ripeness in the grapes;

5) Tim seemed to imply that they are covert, or maybe overt, Robert Parker fans. We brought a bottle the 2005 Horse Heaven Hills Red home for dinner. It was followed by a 1991 Phillip Togni Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. Carol loved the Adams Bench, Diane loved the Phillip Togni. I liked them both. They are made in entirely different styles. The Adams Bench , while not jammy, was very fruit forward, exploding in your mouth with a hint of sweet feel at the end. The Togni was more linear and serious, kind of like Phillip himself. Different strokes for different folks. In any event, if Tim and Erica sent their wines off to Robert Parker, I have no doubt that he would rate them in the "90s". It would be a mutual admiration society."

Gene Stein, PhD—Seattle Wine Blog April 14, 2008