Whether you’re an amateur sommelier or a budding wine lover, you definitely want to add to your things to do list a visit to Andrew Will Winery. Found close by on Bank Road, this local business operates much like the residents of Vashon Island, with a sense of gratefulness and surprise at what art emerges. The nearby winery brings fruit to the plant from Washington vineyards, takes the flavors, and tannins from those grapes and turns it into 4500 cases of wine annually. The wine in those cases are blends of Bordeaux, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc, among others, so you won’t get the usual liquor store offerings. The wines that come from Andrew Will Winery are as unique as the residents on the island. Even the vineyards that supply the grapes are special. They are Ciel du Cheval on Red Mountain, Two Blondes in Yakima Valley, and Discovery Vineyard [...]

Vashon Island is located in the middle of Puget Sound not far from Seattle, WA. It is one of the largest islands in the Sound and is home to over 10,000 people. With no direct connection from any other land mass it means that visitors and residents must take ferries to go or leave the island. Residents and visitors travel to close by cities such as Tacoma and Seattle each day by car ferry or the quick passenger ferry that arrives in downtown Seattle. The island is 38 square miles and has 2.3 person per mile making it a rural community with easy access to friends and activities on the Island. Residents recommend potential residents try out the island before moving there by living in a rental unit in the winter months. If you can fare through an overcast winter full of storms, power outages and crippled by the [...]