Washington wineries and their positions on Initiatives 1100 & 1105

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As promised, below is a list of wineries and their positions on Initiatives 1100 and 1105. Several readers indicated that they felt this information might be helpful in thinking about their own position.

First, let me say a word about how this information was collected. The list below represents both wineries that contacted me based on my blog, Twitter, and Facebook solicitations and wineries that responded to an email asking their positions.

In terms of wineries that were contacted via email, while I had originally hoped to contact all 700 or so wineries in the state, I quickly found collating the contact information to be impractical. Instead, I focused on wineries in the following locations: Chelan, Seattle, Spokane, Walla Walla Valley, Woodinville, and Yakima Valley. This was done for the sole reason that it provided the easiest way to contact the largest number of wineries as quickly as possible. In all cases, I used the regional association listings (which some wineries are not part of) to obtain the contact information. In total, I contacted approximately 150 wineries; Washington has approximately 700 wineries total.

Please note that the information below does not represent in any fashion a statistical sampling of Washington wineries and their positions. The positions of other wineries cannot be extrapolated from this list. Rather, this is just a list of wineries that responded to my solicitations and their stated positions - nothing more and nothing less.

Many winery representatives responded that they were not willing to share their positions publicly. Reasons most frequently cited were concern about alienating customers and divisions within the winery about the initiatives. Many also expressed frustration with Washington’s initiative process.

I would like to thank the wineries below for sharing their positions. If you represent a winery and wish to share your position, feel free to leave a comment below. The table is arranged from Yes (For) to No (Against) in alphabetical order.

Next up on this subject, thoughts from people across the three tiers. See previous posts on these initiatives here.

No.	Winery	1100	1105
1	Fielding Hills	Yes	No
2	Gramercy Cellars	Yes	No
3	Lodmell	Yes	No
4	Lost River	Yes	No
5	Overbluff Cellars	Yes	No
6	Red Sky	Yes	No
7	Tero Estates	Yes	No
8	Tsillan Cellars	Yes	No
9	Willis Hall	Yes	No
10	Wilridge	Yes	No
11	Barrage	Undecided	No
12	428 Wines	No	No
13	Adams Bench	No	No
14	Airfield Estates	No	No
15	Barrister	No	No
16	Buty	No	No
17	Cadence	No	No
18	Cougar Crest	No	No
19	Darby	No	No
20	DesVoigne	No	No
21	Eleven	No	No
22	Hestia	No	No
23	Hinzerling	No	No
24	Hollywood Hill Vineyards	No	No
25	J. Bookwalter Winery	No	No
26	Kyra	No	No
27	Latah Creek	No	No
28	Laurelhurst Cellars	No	No
29	L’Ecole No. 41	No	No
30	McCrea	No	No
31	Nefarious	No	No
32	Nodland	No	No
33	Pomum	No	Neutral
34	Robison Ranch	No	No
35	Salida	No	No
36	Sleeping Dog Wines	No	No
37	Stomani Cellars	No	No
38	Syncline Wine Cellars	No	No
39	Thurston Wolfe Winery	No	No
40	Trio Vintners	No	No
41	Trust Cellars	No	No
42	Upland	No	No
43	Walter Dacon	No	Neutral
44	Waterville	No	No
45	William Church	No	No
	Totals	Yes = 10 No = 34 Undecided = 1	Yes = 0 No = 43 Neutral = 2