35502 North Hinzerling Road
Fine wine
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WINERY Winemaker: Scott Pontin Proprietors: The Pontin Family Average Annual Production: 4,000 cases Estate Vineyard Acreage: 145 acres Wine Products: Tasting Room Hours: Picnic Area
Special Events
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ESTATE VINEYARD The Pontin Farm Varietals Grown: Cabernet Sauvignon, Grape Varietals Available
Cabernet Sauvignon, Contact Scott to reserve your
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Pontin Del Roza... It's a Family Affair For more than 200 years, the Pontin family has been growing grapes and making wine in Italy, in France, and in the Yakima Valley of Washington. Now that's a family affair!
Combine this wine-growing tradition with a pioneering spirit and you
have a thumbnail account of the Yakima Valley branch of the Pontin family
that immigrated to Washington more than 65 years ago.
It was Angelo Pontin who first came to Prosser, planting terraced vineyards as his family had done for generations in Italy. Son Nesto and his wife Delores expanded the farm in the mid-50s on "the Roza," an area of south-facing slopes along the north side of the Yakima Valley, irrigated by one of the Valley canals known by the same name. Initially, the primary crops were corn, potatoes, sugar beets, mint, alfalfa and wheat. Now they are wine grapes, concord grapes and apples. It was the couple's son Scott Pontin who rekindled the family's ancestral passion for winemaking in the 1980s when he convinced the family to expand their farming efforts to include wine grapes. Since then, vineyard plantings have been carefully selected to include grape varieties matched to the microclimate and deep soil of the Roza. The Pontin family followed the basic principle handed down by generations of their European winegrowing ancestors... to insure the best fruit and the best wines, plant only those varietals that will reach maturity by the end of your growing season. Fully ripe grapes are the foundation of the premium wines made by Pontin Del Roza winemaker Scott Pontin.. Showing business acumen and ambition at an early age, it was Scott in 1984 who started the winery... as a Future Farmers of America project! With only four wineries in the area at the time, some may have chuckled at young Pontin's project... especially in light of his underage status. With Pontin Del Roza operating continuously since 1984, and Scott as its winemaker, it is clear this FFA project was an undeniable success. Today, the total number of wineries operating in the Prosser area of the Yakima Valley is 28, including Pontin Del Roza, which now produces approximately 4,000 cases of wine a year. To taste the generations-old legacy of the Pontin family's French and Italian winemaking, come by Pontin del Roza Winery on your next area visit. The hospitality of the family is always on tap in the tasting room; Scott's mother Delores, his sisters Colleen or Diane, occasionally his brother Larry and sometimes Scott himself are behind the bar, ready to tell you all about their wines.
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The Wines of Pontin Del Roza
2006 Estate Pinot Grigio
2006 Estate Riesling
2002 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon
2004 Estate Merlot
2005 Estate Sangiovese
2006 Dolcetto
A Map to Pontin Del Roza
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Gift Shop
They
came to establish their own family farm in the new world... the Pontin
Farm, precursor of Pontin Del Roza Winery, located in the wine-hub
of Prosser, Washington.
