Saturday proved to be a nice, warm sunny day for us in Yakima. We started out at a few wineries near Toppenish (Bonair, Two Mountain, Porteus), the most tasty of the afternoon we thought was Two Mountain and the most friendly was Porteus. We spoke to the wine makers at Porteus for quite awhile and they shared tips on restaurants, breweries and pics of last year's snow fall on the valley floor. Quite fun.We had fun driving around the farm country hunting down the wineries and for lunch we decided to venture into Toppenish for some local Mexican food. Boy was it tasty. The town itself was quite interesting, it is famous for all of the historical murals (on most public & private buildings) and 1800's style frontier store fronts. Made us feel like we were in an old west town from the movies - yeeehaa!
Our timing was impecable, we arrived on "Hop Fest" weekend - the annual celebration for the upcoming hop gathering. We didn't stay long though, there really wasn't much tying back to the Hop theme at the event - huge tractor displays, classic snowmobile show and some cheesy live music. We went hunting at the event for Pickled Hop Shoots (found only at our local pub), but alas no one in town had ever heard of such a thing.
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I'm very sad not to find any pickled hop shoots! But, it was a fun weekend nonetheless!
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