No this is not case of urban legends. Unless you are talking about urban wineries that will become legends. Napa and Sonoma are nice to visit but visiting a winery in the middle of an urban jungle? Now that is stuff that dreams are made. Although not that common yet, check out some urban wineries in San Francisco, Brooklyn and Seattle.
We’ve come to expect our wineries in beautiful, peaceful, almost romantic places. We expect marble, granite, and stone tasting rooms set amongst bucolic grape fields surrounded by mountains, perhaps with a nearby stream or lake.
We do not expect our wineries to be across the street from a busy airfield, to have a train track on one side, or a loud highway on the other. We do not expect to find them amidst a not-quite-yet-gentrified neighborhood full of dive bars, comic book stores and record shops, let alone have a bikini-clad barista coffee kiosk in the parking lot.
But that’s exactly the setting of Charles Smith Wines Jet City, an urban addition to the famed winemaker’s burgeoning Washington state empire.
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