Stemilt Creek Winery
Stemilt Creek winery is a family owned and operated winery with a focus on estate-grown red wines that emphasize the vineyard and soils perched above the Columbia River basin on Stemilt Hill. Kyle and Jan Mathison integrated their passion for growing grapes and making wine into their multi-generational orchard producing the word famous fruit!
The Mathison family have been stewards of the Wenatchee valley, growing fruit and building community. Kyle and Jan established Stemilt Creek Winery twenty years ago and have developed a strong presence and following in the Washington wine industry. The vines are grown at approximately 2000 foot elevation, cropped low, and nourished with their own world famous organic compost cultivated in their orchard.
Archibald James Winery
Archibald James Winery was established in 2018 and is alignment of passions and interests to make handcrafted wines and hard ciders. Bryan Noyd and Seth Cohen met serendipitously and found they had a similar interest in building a small wine and cider brand but came from very different complimentary backgrounds.
Archibald James hard ciders highlight the fruit and natural transformation of flavors and character through fermentation and aging; ciders are produced in a traditional manner from cider, heirloom apples, and occasionally whole fruits or botanicals; more akin to white wine than many modern ciders.
Wines from Archibald James are made from grapes grown by some of our friends across Washington state and from grapes in a small vineyard we manage in Wenatchee owned by some other great friends. Our wines are expressive of the fruit and the vineyards they come from as well as the vintage. We employ minimal intervention techniques to our wines and cider in general with the use of native yeast and bacteria in many of our fermantations, limited sulfites (in some cases none added), and sparing use of new oak barrels in our aging program.