The old school house bell rang on a late October afternoon as the last bin of red wine grapes of the 2022 season was emptied into a shorting machine. “It’s been a very good growing season,” said owner Marty Clubb smiling on the front steps of a century-old school building home to his family winery for four decades.
Years of projections come to fruition in the fall with a sprint to process thousands of bins of grapes. They arrive at the winery in an orchestrated sequence leading to the dance of forklifts–unloading, stacking, processing, and cleaning bins.
L’Ecole N° 41 was one of the first wineries in the Walla Walla Valley of southeastern Washington. The winery’s name is French for “the school” and is in school district 41.
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