Paradisos del Sol Winery

Very welcoming and informative winery! Loved that they had a small morsel of a food pairing for each wine, which went with their wine tasting philosophy, ‘sip sip bite sip’. We were traveling with our kids, who loved exploring the property and showering the winery dogs with attention while we enjoyed our tasting inside.

Very unique, you must go here. We had a great time with Paul, he is full of knowledge. The wine is amazing! Make this a last place. You will not have to go anywhere else! He makes wine affordable! Our favorite in wine country!!!

This place is amazing! The couple who own the place is super nice and personable. I really appreciate that they paired a tasting of food with each wine.

What a find! We did the Sunday morning winery tour (call ahead to reserve), which took about 2 hours and ended in the tasting room. Paul, the owner, took 4 of us in his car around his winery and others in the area, explained the local geology, why this place is good for various grapes, and guided us through vineyards where we learned the best ways to grow different grapes and how to sample them right off the vines. The four of us were fascinated, all our many questions were answered, and then we got to sample wines back in the tasting room, as others have said, paired with small bites to complement the 8 (? I lose track — this was before noon on a Sunday, after all) we tried. We bought a few bottles of the Oyster blend and love it whenever we cook fish. We’ll be stopping by on our next trip to the area to get more.
If you’re in Zillah on a Sunday morning, I would highly recommend the full tour.

If you have kids in tow, this is the winery for you! The wine is great, the owners & staff friendly and the grounds fun and eclectic. For the kids there is a tire swing, veggie garden, animals (including a friendly doggie), a koi pond (they can feed the fish), a few toys indoors, an owl cam and more.

We’ve been going to Paradisos del Sol Winery for years and years. We go as much for the friendship with Paul and Barbara as we do for the great wines that they produce year after year. We went up to see them today, our 37^th wedding anniversary, to say hello and get our summer’s worth of wine for our RV travels. Don’t have a clue what a previous reviewer was talking about with the «aggressive dog» comment! We were greeted buy the most gentle and friendly blond lab («Sid»? I think) as we opened our car door. Spent a few hours of tasting wines, making our purchases, learning about wine making, Checked out their barn owl nest box and «owl cam». Our favorite wines from them are the Paradisos Red, Rose Paradisos, Oyster White, and Riesling. This is a very lay-​back place with great wines and good people. We tell all our friends about it.

We caught the party the Friday after the 4^th of July. What a find! Fabulous wine — especially the rose’. Great place to camp and enjoy the hospitality of Barbara and Paul. Their tasting room is warm and friendly, and they pair their wines with flavors that you taste as you sip. Where else can you learn about pairing wine with food surrounded by great people in a gorgeous place of flowers and music. We didn’t want to leave. We’ll definitely be back. Just wish we lived in the delivery area.

We enjoyed their unique approach to tasting wines paired with small bites of different foods. Each wine really brought out the flavors of the food. The only drawback is that the wines themselves did not stand out and, in the end, it was hard to say which wines, if any, were worth taking home. Nevertheless, it was a very enjoyable experience. The server was also friendly and suggested the perfect place for us to have dinner and spend the evening in Yakima. I recommend stopping by for the unique experience and friendly atmosphere.

You wouldn’t think much of this place by looking at the outside but don’t judge a book by it’s cover. They were the only place on our wine tasting tour that did a pairing with food and explained the wines. It was just what I was looking for!

The mantra of Paradisos del Sol is «sip, sip, bite, sip». The first sip to cleanse your palate, the second to get a feel for the wine, the paired bite to provide complexity, and the third sip to really taste the wine after the bite opens up the flavors. It’s a fun and interesting way to taste wine! The bites are really small, hardly bites at all. You get to try a variety of wines, from a dry white, to their «Zort».
They have a good «Under 10 buck» white and Paradiso red. The tasting fee is $ 5, unless you spend $ 20. We were a little bit under $ 40 for the 3 bottles we bought, but the winemaker was kind enough to waive the tasting fees.
The tasting room has 2 areas so it can accommodate groups. The grounds are interesting, like a rustic farmhouse feel. There are chickens meandering the grounds.
Definitely worth a stop in your wine tour!

I enjoy wine tasting very much. I enjoy driving to remote places, and discovering new flavors, and meeting people who are impassioned by their trade. But rarely is wine tasting actually something I would call «fun». Except at Paradisos del Sol Winery.
You arrive, worrying a little bit that you’re in the wrong place. Surely a tasting room shouldn’t have chickens and dogs scampering about? And then you enter. You realize that you are in a space that is probably someone’s sunroom. And then you order the tasting flight. And it is served with little dabs of food in a plastic painter’s palette.
And you enjoy yourself immensely. The person serving the wine is so excited to share her thoughts with you. The other people in the tasting room are the sweetest older ladies from Canada, down for a vintage car show. You drink. You eat. And you buy the most delicious sweet wines. You are happy… very happy.

What a neat concept when wine tasting. Sip sip bite sip. Little mini bites of foods paired with wines designed to bring out the flavors of both. Doing it this way really is a treat to the senses. All of the hosts who served us through the various stations were well versed in the foods and the wine pairings and they made this a fun experience. We liked several of their wines enough to purchase. Owner Paul is quirky and entertaining. Barbara is more serious but still pleasant and helpful. Recommend.

So I’ll preface this with the fact that I’m not a wine snob, and we were driving around in Washington wine country in a VW campervan. Maybe this tidbit alone means we were destined to visit Paradisos.
I would agree that Paul and Barbara’s winery may be a farm with a winery, or vice versa, but I think it’s better described as a tribute to slow food, and slow wine, all tied together with exceptional people, and great dogs.
We barely made it to the tasting room through a maze of bric brac, a forest of succulents, and one of the best lawns I think that has ever graced a winery in Washington. When we did finally make it to the tasting, a group was finishing up as we were ready to get started. Good news for us: we had Barbara all to ourselves. She explained how their tasting process worked, and we got started. It was good we weren’t in a hurry, as she’s very personable and did a great job of lightly describing the wine and letting us make our own decisions about how it tasted. We thoroughly enjoyed the Riesling, the Cabernet, as well as the Zort. As enjoyable as the wine was, the visit was made all the better after the tasting. Our wiener dogs played with Diggly and Bondo, we took the dogs for a walk in the vineyard and met Paul, who showed us a barn owl house, complete with barn owl! We spent the majority of the evening talking with Paul and Barbara, and had a great time.
Caveat: if you’re a wine snob, who likes your wineries to look like wineries, this may not be the place for you. But if you like your wineries owned and operated by great people, with great personalities, thus is definitely worth a stop. Give Diggly a hug from us.

Dude was on a business trip in Washington and I came up to visit. We decided on his day off to take advantage of Washington wineries. Paradiso is a quirky, small family run winery that is also a farm. Maybe it’s a farm that happens to be a winery, either way this is the place I would want to run when I’m retired. Their concept is truly unique, «sip sip bite sip» is the mantra. There are food pairings with the wines, and I appreciate how it can be a useful tool to pick up the subtleties of the flavors. I appreciate how down to earth this winery is. Dude clicked with the Rose (which is really complex) and the Under $ 10 Red (I prefer sweet wines). I hope we come back to Washington so we can come back to this winery!

The food pairing concept here is uniquly interesting as they take you through a deliberate tour through a main grouping (all?) of their wines.
Unfortunately, however, the good ended there and we got very weird vibes from this place. Our tasting host seemed very new and did not understand the pairings or the wines. She did not explain the $ 5 tasting fee if a $ 20 purchase was not made. And Paul, (the owner?) seemed to be giving her some very terse feedback as she deferred questions to him. Meanwhile, he was explaining the whole process to another group, and honestly he came off sounding very much less than friendly, almost as if he was talking down to the group.
So at the end of our tasting plate, we read on our sheet about the tasting fee. As the tasting host hovered, we quickly chose a single wine to purchase and got the heck out of there.
As we talked about it in the car, we all decided that although none of these wines seemed to stand out in comparison to the others we tasted that day, our experience in this tasting room was not pleasurable. Other wineries create a friendly, relaxed, and comfortable environment. They are very social, and not «rules based» as this one seems to be. Since this place left us feeling like we didn’t belong, its not likely that we’ll be back.
Edited to add some constructive feedback:
–Consider a «free» or no obligation tasting for those who aren’t interested in the wine flight and instead want to preview a short selection of varieties.
–For the food pairing wine flight, drop the sip, sip, bite, sip, dump mantra. It might be well advised, but wine tasters already know how they like to enjoy wine, and this whole approach belittles them. And no one likes rules.
–Don’t hover or ask sales-​y questions like «so of these wines, which did you like the most?» Instead, after tasking, I suggest making friendly conversation or leaving the group alone to think about it.

This is a homey and quirky winery that is family run. I can understand why the other reviewers disliked having one of the two owners (husband wife team) hovering and instructing during the tasting process. The owners have picked out foods specifically to go with the wines. I’m a little on the fence about this process. On the one hand, it is good to taste wine with food as one traditionally will be consuming both wine and food together so you want to make sure it is a good pairing. On the other hand, I think that wine usually tastes better with food than on its own, so I would worry about purchasing a wine that if just tasted on its own without the food, I wouldn’t want.
Nonetheless, I found the owners to be friendly, and I thought she did an excellent job talking about her wines. I liked how she talked about what they wanted from each wine. I also like that they are supporting a charity.
My favorite wine was the Angelica, which I think goes well with fall-​deserts, like pumpkin pie after a food-​coma thanksgiving meal. That was the only bottle we purchased.

These guys make some nice wines and have some great snacks paired to go along with the wines. The snacks really do bring a new dimension to the wines. Eclectic place that is almost like your grandmother’s place with hoarded figurines and such and farm animals in the front, along with a Koi pond, and plants everywhere.
Appreciated the background on the botyrized wines, though when I asked about the chemistry of it, the guy kind of rudely said «it is biology, not chemistry»…uh, ok. Maybe he just came across wrong.
We left with a bottle of rose, and one of the red blends. Cool stop!

If you’re visiting the Yakima valley, this is the one winery you must stop at. Unlike some of the more commercial wineries, Paradisios Del Sol gives you a true sense of the work and care that went into the wines — which are all absolutely wonderful. From their humble kitchen turned tasting room, to the chickens running around out in the front yard, and the brightly colored footprints that the winemakers’ son «painted» onto the tasting counter — you instantly feel welcomed into this family vineyard. Better yet, they take the time to pair the wines with food to give you a complete tasting experience. As a great surprise, you just might find out that the person pouring you wine is the winemaker himself — which makes Paradisos Del Sol the one stop you’ll never forget.

Upon driving into the parking lot of the winery you are greeted by a metal dragaon and chickens roaming freely. When walking up the ramp to the tasting room, a dog sitting in front of the door greets you and a cat is roaming around looking for attention.
Once within the tasting room you are greeted by something you don’t see at every winery. This winery offers small amounts of food that is paired specifically with wines that you are tasting. The winery calls it «SIP, SIP, BITE, SIP… DUMP». Definitely a cool idea, but I’m ok with just having the crackers in between tastes.
In addition, they offer for you to take the recipes of their Artichoke-​Crab dip and Bleu-​Cheese dip, some of what they offer with their wine, to take with you.
Pumpkin custard was paired with one of their desert wines, Angelica G.
The last wine, Botrytis Riesling, you taste is paired with a roasted marshmellow.
–1 for the owner hovering over you and giving second by second instructions on how to roast a marshmellow.
The lady who was helping provide tasting was letting others have fun with the roasting of marshmellows, one actually caught the marshmellow on fire and they all laughed about it.
To me, that’s part of what wine tasting should be. having fun, being relaxed & being comfortable while experiencing the wine.
The wine tasting is free, except for the last one (Botrytis Riesling) which they ask for a $ 1 donation to support a group of kids going to school in Nicaragua. Good cause. +1
In all, there are 6 wines they offer for tasting, 5 of which are free.
–1 for the owner pressuring, trying to upsell & hovering when you are trying to decide which wines you are going to purchase. I can read what you offer, you do have things printed.
Overall, I’d give this place a 3.5. They do have a great concept with pairing the foods with the wine. Wonderful thought about helping kids go to school and they also have some good wine, I walked out with 2 bottles. Most of the reason why I wouldn’t give this place a 4 or above was the customer service /​attitude of the owner.

Found this winery a couple/​few years ago on an impromptu wine tasting road trip to Yakima. The tasting room, a humble and homey rambler, is home to a variety of animals. So nice and welcoming. When you go, ask to see Bondo doggie — good chance he’ll greet you in the parking lot and walk you to the door. What a gracious host!
They’re a small family-​owned winery that mostly uses grapes from their Vineyard. They also use grapes from other small family vineyards in the Yakima Valley.
Barbara and Paul are the friendly winegrowers. In the tasting room you can enjoy their food pairings and guaranteed you’ll be hooked on the wines and some new, simple hourdourve recipes!
They’ve already said it best so instead of reinventing the wheel here’s something directly from their website: «We are believers in letting the grapes become wine. We are Winegrowers not Winemakers. Our job is to eat grapes and imagine what wine they wish to be – then provide the best conditions for the transformation into great wine. Sometimes we use barrels, sometimes tanks. Most often a barrel is the cocoon where the juice transforms into a dry table wine. Sometimes the wines yearn to be sweet and luscious and a temperature-​controlled tank is the cocoon. (But then Angelica is sweet, luscious, and barrel-​fermented [it’s just complex]).»
I happen to dig their Rose, Paradisos Red, Cabernet Sauvignon, Angelica G, and Late Harvest Botrytis Riesling but YOU should taste them all and choose your own favorites.
And get this … they do occasional BBCs (Bung it in the Boot of your Car) usually to West Seattle and Bothell so you can order wine from them and pick it up local when they travel west of the mountains. Damn, how conveniently cool is THAT???