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Northwest Travel & Life - Annual 52 Getaways

Southwest Idaho is blessed with ancient volcanic soil, an abundant water supply and a four-season climate—a recipe for great wine grapes. And enterprising farmers and winemakers have caught on, transforming the Snake River Valley into one of the Northwest’s up-and-coming fine-wine-producing regions. The area that makes up the Sunnyslope Wine Trail has the heaviest concentration of wineries in the state.

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The Traveling Spud - Idaho Wineries: A Day on the Sunnyslope Wine Trail

While it’s easy to drive around the trail yourself, I highly recommend getting a driver. After all, you will be tasting wines throughout the region and probably won’t stay too sober! We got to take Idaho Town Car, which is a great local company that specializes in car rentals for tours and special events. Our driver was amazing and he knew the region and our itinerary perfectly.

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Great Northwest Wine - Koenig Vineyards in Idaho stays local with sale to Nederends

CALDWELL, Idaho – In a stunning yet feel-good move for the Idaho wine industry, Greg and Kristen Koenig have agreed to sell Koenig Vineyards on the Sunnyslope of the Snake River Valley to James and Sydney Nederend of nearby SCORIA Vineyards. Both couples plan to make the announcement later this morning, Great Northwest Wine has learned.

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Napa Valley Register - Idaho wines -- and Idaho winemakers

A historical marker atop a levee in Lewiston, Idaho, commemorates where Meriwether Lewis and William Clark camped Oct. 10, 1805, as part of their grand survey of the recently purchased Louisiana Territory — stretching from St. Louis to the Pacific. Here, the Clearwater River confluences with the Snake, which, as its name suggests, meanders in a sinuous fashion westward to the Columbia in Washington’s Tri-Cities on its inexorable path to Portland and the great ocean beyond.

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The Napa Valley Register - The World in a Glass: Idaho comes to Sonoma

Celia Gould, director of the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, cheerfully admitted to taking some teasing over the Idaho Wine Commission project. “People said, ‘You’re going to California to sell Idaho wine?’”

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