Wilridge Madrona Winery
Wilridge pours its own Washington wine in Madrona on Friday and Saturday nights, 5pm to 8pm, and says it has been making wine in Seattle since 1988.
Why go
The winery calls itself Seattle's original urban winery and dates the business to 1988.1 That is Wilridge's own claim about Wilridge, and it stands unchecked. The date belongs to the winery. When this Madrona room opened is nowhere on the page. What the page does establish is what you can drink: the full Wilridge line, by the glass or the bottle, on 34th Avenue.1 The hours are the thing to plan around. That is two nights a week, three hours each, with private tastings otherwise by appointment.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: whatever Wilridge bottle is open. The page says the full line is here for tasting, by the glass and by the bottle, and it names no single wine.1
- Avoid: any night that is not Friday or Saturday.1
What locals & experts say
- The record is thin here. Wilridge's own page is the only account of this room, so I have no critic's line to give you.
Good to know
- Hours: Friday and Saturday, 5pm to 8pm. Private tastings by appointment on request.1
- Phone: 206-325-3051, extension 3.1
Verdict
listed — There is nothing outside the winery to weigh. No vintage, no vineyard and no single bottle is described anywhere read, the winery's own Madrona page included, and the founding year is the winery's claim about itself. Seattle's oldest working winery is a real hook if it holds up, and one call to the Washington State Wine Commission would check it. Six open hours a week and an unchecked claim leave this at the bottom.