Spanish wine and food are served at this neighborhood spot at Battle Ground Village. Here, purple-haired twentysomethings and gray-haired boomers in Tommy Bahama shirts sit on the patio to eat Spanish favorites like gazpacho, pan tumaca (tomato toast), and meat-and-cheese plates piled with goodies from owner Mar Meyerhoefer’s hometown of Madrid. Wine flights come with five small pours with choice of cava, white, rosé, or red, with selections from Spain and Southwestern Washington, as well as wine made by Emanar Cellars. Recent tasing menu pours include 2019 Granbazan Etiqueta Verde, a classic albariño with a crisp, citrus-y flavor as well as a 2016 Codice, a tempranillo from La Mancha with berry and spice notes.

Mark Mahan and Greg Wallace have been serving wine made onsite at this urban winery since 2010. Burnt Bridge sources grapes from Washington state growers in the Walla Walla Valley, Columbia Valley, and Yakima Valley, from a plummy 2018 mourvedre to a 2019 semillón with pineapple and passionfruit notes. Offerings include wine by bottle, glass, or flight, as well as charcuterie plates and hummus; it’s all served in an airy indoor space or out back on the covered and heated patio.

Leah Jackson, owner of Niche Wine Bar, has helped Vancouverites find their favorite bottle of wine for more than a decade. In the past 11 years, she’s tasted over 7,000 wines for her lounge-y downtown space; there, she offers more than 300 wines by the bottle and dozens of pours by the glass that regularly rotate. For summer, rosés like a 2020 Muga Rioja and a cabernet franc rosé from Domaine Audebert & Fils in the Loire Valley fill the wine list. Wine-friendly charcuterie plates, sandwiches, and Alsatian tarte flambeés are available for indoor or outdoor dining.

This Yakima Valley winery recently opened a tasting room on the Vancouver Waterfront, showing off its flagship wines from the 830-acre vineyard in the foothills of the Rattlesnake Mountains. There, they grow more than 20 different varietals at a similar latitude to the Bordeaux region of France, with silty soil and a high desert climate ideal for growing cabernet sauvignon, merlot, cab franc, petit verdot, and malbec. The outdoor patio offers views of the Columbia River, as well as tasting flights and charcuterie plates. The sweet and salty charcuterie plate comes with honey-drenched brie and ricotta, prosciutto, chocolate-covered almonds, and palmiers. On a sunny day, many of the patrons sip Airfield’s subtly sweet, fruity, and floral frosé from glasses with a stewardess logo. Spots indoors and outdoors can be reserved online or by phone.

Maryhill was the first Columbia River Gorge winery to open a tasting room on the Vancouver Waterfront, snapping up the largest and best spot right on the water. In the tasting room’s spacious indoor or outdoor areas, visitors can sip some of Maryhill’s most popular wines, often leaning on Italian and French varietals — the winery’s high-scoring 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon, a rich and jammy number with notes of brambleberry and chocolate, relies on Columbia Valley grapes aged for 20 months in 50 percent new French oak. The tasting room’s kitchen churns out pizzas, snacks, and seafood dishes like steamer clams in Maryhill white wine, Dungeness crab cakes with lemon aioli, and shrimp cocktail.

Walla Walla winery SuLei Cellars opened its intimate tasting room in downtown Vancouver last year, just a short walk from the cluster of more crowded wine spots on the Waterfront. This downtown space offers wine tastings, glasses, and bottles, including its Roller Girl Jammer Red, named for winemaker and co-founder Tanya Woodley (who was on the Walla Walla Sweets Roller Derby team). It’s a well-balanced blend with notes of blackberry and spice. Pre-packaged wine-friendly snacks are also available, and guests can bring their own food.

This boutique winery sits just minutes away from hiking trails that snake around Lucia Falls and Moulton Falls. Later in the day, hikers stream into the homey tasting room or grab tables outdoors with views of vineyards in front of an evergreen forest. Winemaker Dan Brink focuses on varietals found in the Bordeaux, Rhone, and Alsace regions. Award-wining 2018 Lucia No. 47, a cabernet sauvignon-heavy blend with syrah and merlot, uses grapes sourced from DuBrul Vineyard in the Yakima Valley, with dark fruit with a lush finish. Light snacks like hummus and chips and bread with dipping oil complement the layered wine. Guests can also bring their own food.

Moulton Falls Winery & Cider House has a little something for everyone. The large indoor space, constructed by owner Joe Millea and his brothers, houses a wine bar as well as a beer and cider bar. Moulton Falls sources grapes from Red Mountain, Yakima Valley, and Columbia Valley in Eastern Washington, for French blends like a 2016 syrah, mourvedre, and petite sirah that goes well with the wood-fired pizza made in the large outdoor space. Drink and dine with gorgeous views of the Cascade foothills.

Confluence Vineyards & Winery sits halfway between Ridgefield and Salmon Creek. Greg and Jae Weber named their boutique winery hoping to create a place for people to meet at this estate where tributaries of the Lake River converge just south of the property. This scenic winery produces a small quantity of high-quality wines with an emphasis on blended reds finished with petit verdot. At a recent tasting, a merlot dominant 2015 Companion Red stood out as super smooth and balanced from the beginning to the end. A crisp, strawberry-laden 2019 rosé with Yakima Valley grapes proved to be an excellent warm-weather sipper. Sparkling rosé will be added to the wine list later this summer.

This local favorite in downtown Camas features an extensive wine list that leans heavy on food-friendly reds by the glass or bottle, like a 2016 Brian Carter Abracadabra from the Columbia Valley and a 2018 Arao Clos de Luz Carmenere from Chile — a cabernet-syrah blend with notes of plum, cherry, and chocolate. Salud recently added Italian classics like osso bucco, shrimp scampi linguini, and lasagna to pair with their wines.

Bethany Vineyards grows pinot noir grapes as well as twelve other varietals that thrive in Southwestern Washington’s cool climate like cabernet, barbera, riesling, and gewurztraminer. New wines spend short time in new oak before they are poured into a neutral oak, where they are aged two years or more. The well-manicured grounds with sculpted topiaries and a placid pond create the ideal setting for ladies in loose floral dresses and long-brimmed sun hats to sip wine from long-stemmed glasses while grazing on cheese boards, salads, and sandwiches.