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Build it and they will come - Grapes in the Touchet Valley. Land in the Touchet valley has long been worked as prime wheat growing acreage and with good reason.

The loess soils, long growing days and softly undulating hills are perfect for grain - and for the ease of harvest that the gentle slopes of the rolling hills afford. Those same attributes make for perfect vineyard conditions too, so it came as a surprise to me that more vineyards are not planted out north of Walla Walla. I discovered there is a good news/bad news paradox here in the Touchet that has slowed further vineyard development...