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May-June 2014
Call of the
Enchantments
Day-tripping the area’s premier hiking spot
Inside
Mariachi Town,
USA
Designing Woman
Adele Wolford
Editor’s Letter
Mariachi Music
with a Purpose
C
onfession time: I’ve long dreamed of being a mariachi. Going out on stage in a traditional
traje de charro worn by mariachis. Belting out a song while strumming my guitar.
I could buy a traje de charro and some boots to look the part. But I don’t sing well. And
I don’t know how to play guitar. My mariachi dream, therefore, is still just a dream.
In this issue, you’ll find a Gary Jasinek-penned piece about the Wenatchee School District’s
mariachi program, led by Ramon Rivera. He is helping students achieve their dreams, both
musically and beyond.
I feel a heap of admiration — and a small amount of jealousy — whenever I get the privilege of
watching and listening to the high schoolers who comprise Mariachi Huenachi, the elite mariachi
troop from Wenatchee High School.
Those 25 students are living my dream. Beyond the rigors of regular practice, they perform all
over the state, up to 50 times a year, all while balancing academic and family responsibilities.
The mariachi program dates back to 1993, when school district officials flew to Southern
California to recruit Mark Fogelquist to get the program off the ground. Fogelquist and at least one
of his eventual successors — Juan Manuel Cortez — did an outstanding job teaching Mexican folk
music to students. Arguably, the musicians they produced are among the most musically talented
of the hundreds of students who have cycled through Mariachi Huenachi.
A handful have continued playing mariachi music beyond high school. Mariachi Estrella de
Mexico is a local professional mariachi outfit. Four members of the highly polished group are the
children of Ignacio and Elvira Chavez. Son Osbaldo and daughters Adriana, Gaby and Maria all are
Mariachi Huenachi graduates.
Turn to Page 22 to read Jasinek’s outstanding piece on Mariachi Huenachi.
Marco Martinez, editor
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Contents
Page 8
6 Fast 5
Mike Irwin likes his art large
8 The Big Fix
Stingray goes from Meh to Wow!
12 Spears of Yum
Pybus Bistro gets its asparagus on
Page 12
14 By Design
Adele Wolford lets us peek inside
22 Music to Inspire
Mariachi Huenachi is now a college factory
34 Texting ...
Wilson Alvarez
The Maestro has made a new home
Page 34
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36 Enchanted, I’m Sure
The region’s premier hike is no easy feat
49 A Natural Beauty
Gamble Sands golf course opens this
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56 Double Duty
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fast five
Story and photos By mike Irwin
Beastly
Murals
edition
1
Creative stampede
2
No mural in North Central
Washington tops artist Walter Graham’s
“Horsepower” for sheer emotional and
creative, um, horsepower. The 16-by-35foot painting in Rocky Reach Dam’s
Visitor Center cleverly depicts scores
of galloping stallions as the surging
water that makes hydropower. Graham’s
horsey handiwork is spectacular
enough, say dam employees, to draw
many visitors back for one more
glimpse and spur locals to snap family
photos at its base. Feel the power and
hoof it to Rocky Reach Dam, Highway
97A, Wenatchee.
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Tracking down microbrews
What goes best with an ice cold
beer? Pretzels, barbecue and, oh yeah,
badgers. Owners of Badger Mountain
Brewing must have invited a Godzillasized badger to tromp all over their
building and leave its five-toed, fullclawed tracks. Or, at least that’s
what it looks like. The simple and
surprising mural boasts a promise to
suds-lovers of something, er, different
inside — such as a yummy froth (on
tap) called Bimbo Beach Blonde.
That’s worth joining together for
a badger churr, the throaty mating
purr that’s irresistible to female
badgers and, we’ve heard, courthouse
secretaries. Make tracks to Badger
Mountain Brewing, 1 Orondo Ave.,
Wenatchee.
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Trout with attitude
3
The feisty, finny rainbow fighter
on the Trout apple logo has evolved
somewhat over the last eight decades,
but not much. Whether it’s printed
on vintage (1948) apple-box labels
sold on eBay or emblazoned on fruit
packing sheds (1960-2000) in Chelan,
the bold, open-mouthed Salmoninae
looks like it’s ready to gobble a minnow
or make a fool of some Orvis-dressed
fly fisherman. Our favorite version
overlooks the Columbia River from the
corner of the huge Trout-Blue Chelan
warehouse on McNeil Canyon Road,
northeast of the Beebe Bridge. One
glance, and you can’t help but think:
“That’s one tough fish.”
Cougar face-to-face
4
Students at Sterling Intermediate
School swear the cougar’s eyes follow
them through the halls. Visiting sports
teams are intimidated by the giant
predator looming above. And Principal
Chris Hall says staff and students alike
are inspired by the 20-by-23-foot photo
mural in the school’s front lobby. “It’s
the first thing we see when we come
in each day,” he says. “It reminds us
who we are.” The mural — chosen
from more than 15,000 cougar images
— has been a growling success for the
school’s cougar-mascot theme. It joined
the snarling statue out front and real,
taxidermied cougar down the hall. See
’em all at Sterling Intermediate School,
600 N. James Ave., East Wenatchee.
Der Greeken tales
You Bavarian buffs probably never
expected to find a bit of Aesop wedged
between your nutcracker and your dirndl.
But smack-dab in Bavarian-themed
Leavenworth, stretched across the
Obertal Mall, is a spread of murals that
gives a Greek peek into Aesop’s Fables.
The 10 painted panels feature some of
the world’s most famous moralistic tales,
including the Tortoise and the Hare
(“plodding wins the race”), the Wolf in
Sheep’s clothing (“appearances are deceptive”) and everybody’s favorite, Androcles
and the Lion (“gratitude is the sign of noble souls”). We could suggest the Polka
Dancer and the Lederhosen (“oompah ain’t for everybody”), but we won’t. See
these delights at 922 Commercial St., Leavenworth.
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wheels of wonder
The futuristic lines of the fastback.
Story By sharon altaras photos By mike bonnicksen
A Car
with Sting
Photo provided
This was what Bill Lange’s 1965
Corvette Stingray looked like when he
bought it for $800 at a police auction
in 1969.
B
ill Lange made himself a
promise 46 years ago.
He’d sold his first Corvette
Stingray — a 1964 — to pay back money
borrowed to buy a house. “It was the
right thing to do,” he said, but the car
was his baby and he mourned losing
it. “I said when I got my next ‘keeper,’ I
would keep it.”
Then a dad of two (he has six kids
total), the now-70 year-old Wenatchee
resident still owns the 1965 Stingray
he got his hands on four years after his
first.
He bought it from a police storage lot
Bill Lange estimates his 1965 Corvette
Stingray fastback is today worth between
$75,000 and $85,000, roughly 100 times
what he bought it for in 1969.
for $800 in 1969, after it was stolen from
a colleague. It had been completely
stripped down and he spent a year
building it back up before he had a
rolling vehicle.
At that time, Lange made changes
to the drab-green Corvette that were
considered unconventional. The
popularity of custom cars hadn’t
reached full swing and to-the-letter
restorations were the mode.
“I didn’t like the way GM built it.
I wanted wider wheels and tires to
complement the power that it had,”
Lange says, adding that he looked for
fenders that he thought “they should
have used.” He also painted it bright
red.
Lange owns Eagle Vinyl Fence
on Wenatchee Avenue and was in
the automotive services industry
in Southern California for decades
before moving Washington. He’s
seen and purchased plenty of cars,
including Corvettes that weren’t
“keepers” and three Porsches for his
wife, which he’s since sold.
Lange’s Corvette is fully loaded with
air conditioning, power windows and a
telescopic steering wheel.
“Back in the day when these
came out in Southern California,
they ruled the streets. They were a
phenomenon,” he says of the Stingray.
John Kalahar, president of
Wenatchee Valley Corvette Club
concurs. He says Corvettes are the
“only American-made sports car,”
and hence a piece of “American
iconography.”
The club, which is about five years
old, has just over 100 members,
residing between Oroville and
Othello. At a show last year in the TriCities area, members took home nine
of the 20 awards, says Kalahar.
Lange’s red Stingray was used as a
daily driver until 1978, when he put it
in storage in his garage.
“I remarried and my wife at the
time liked Porsches,” he explains.
Five years ago, he decided it was
time to go back to his “first love.”
This spring, he’s having the car
rewired and installing a ZZ430 racing
engine that puts out 430 horsepower
and 408 pounds of torque.
Later, he’ll put in a five-speed
transmission, adding an extra gear so
he can motor around town with less
noise emanating from the car’s side
exhaust.
The red paint he put on it so long
ago still looks good.
“Have you ever bought something
new and then the novelty wore off?”
Lange asks. “I get just as excited to get
in the thing. I make excuses to go get
a loaf of bread. I still get excited. It’s
never left me.” F
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4 ounces cornichons (or you favorite sour
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This is the original bath tile in the bath. The
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tiles, along with the “Pepto pink” are all in
sync with the era of the 1940 home.
Wolford used natural stone in the kitchen, above, along with a Tuscan red
color on the walls, right, to create a natural, warm space. She included these
vintage finds above the doorways in the kitchen, which draw you through to
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time. Some things I’ve seen people
skimp on, and regret it later, are
millwork refinishing or replacement,
hardware upgrading and energy
efficient windows.
Homeowners should select a
variety of textures and patterns
to create whatever statement
they want to make. It can be casual,
formal, rustic, contemporary or
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of successful design. Natural,
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and dimming capabilities used where
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people through spaces. It is a
tool to allow investigation and
provide enjoyment. An example might
be a sculpture, with indirect lighting,
on a wall that is across from where a
person enters the room. It can also be a
window with a view. These things will
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In the master bedroom, Wolford has
surrounded herself with personal
keepsakes, but also has kept the feel of
the 1940-built home, like the door trim,
the door handles and this chair. At left,
she used natural stone on the kitchen
walls and around the large picture
window above the sink to draw the eye
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Mariachi
ncw life
... on stage and
in the classroom
T
he girl’s fingers tremble as she
raises her violin to her chin.
She’s instructed to play
a scale, and so she creates a series
of sustained notes ascending then
descending, not tuning-fork pitchperfect, but close.
Next, she performs a short piece she
has selected, and then in a sweet and
slightly tremulous voice she sings, a
cappella, a tune in Spanish.
Her audience, which in this large
practice hall consists of Ramon Rivera
and his assistant, Maija Henderson, is
encouraging. “Great job,” Rivera tells
her. “I’m proud of you.”
Then he asks her why she wants to
join Mariachi Huenachi.
“Singing gets me over being shy,”
the girl says. “When I sing, it’s like I’m
another person.”
Though Rivera’s comments are
supportive, he also lets the girl know
how difficult it is to select the very best
from the 100 or so students who will
audition for Wenatchee High School’s
mariachi groups this March. Most of
them will try out for the renowned
Mariachi Huenachi, the 25-member
elite group that performs publicly,
often at prominent venues, scores of
times over the course of a school year.
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Ramon Rivera, center, has led the
Wenatchee School District’s mariachi
program since 2005. At right, Mariachi
Huenachi — Wenatchee High School’s
elite mariachi performance group — is
comprised of the program’s 25 most
talented musicians and singers.
Making it into Mariachi Azteca — sort
of the JV of Wenatchee School District’s
mariachis — isn’t bad either.
To be invited to join the varsity
Mariachi Huenachi, students need
excellent musical chops, certainly.
Success
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But they also must earn good grades
in all their classes, be model citizens
and present themselves well — as one
must do in auditions. And even current
members have to audition again every
year.
As Rivera says, “If you know how to
audition, you know how to interview
for a job. And really, every day is an
audition.”
For Rivera, who took over the
program here in 2005, success in the
mariachi program means way more
than a guitarron player who can keep
up with an allegro bass line, or a singer
who can nail the soaring falsetto in
“Cucurrucucu Paloma.”
“It’s not just that we win music
contests. As a teacher, I want them to
be all-around excellent,” he said. “Yes,
it’s about the music, but a lot of it is
focused on their broader educations.”
That focus may be why every one
of the 10 seniors currently in Mariachi
Huenachi is planning to attend college
next year.
Among them is 18-year-old Natalia
Esquivel, who has studied mariachi
since she was in seventh grade at
Orchard Middle School. She joined
Mariachi Huenachi in her sophomore
year, singing and playing the vihuela, a
smaller, five-string version of a guitar.
As of March, Esquivel had been
accepted at Eastern Washington
University, Western, WSU and her
preferred choice, UW. She’ll be the first
member of her family to attend college.
In fact, she’s the first to graduate from
high school.
In an interview in one of the music
department’s cramped practice rooms,
Esquivel echoed Rivera’s points
about academia. “For me, the most
meaningful thing about mariachi is the
encouragement I’ve received for higher
education. Mr. Rivera focuses on much
more than music.”
Sometimes the constant performing
— more than 50 shows a year, many of
which involve regional travel — plus
Rivera’s scholastic requirements “can
get overwhelming, but we know it’s
really good for us.”
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AP photos
Ramon Rivera leads his students during a performance outside CenturyLink Field
prior to a Seattle Sounders soccer game in Seattle last September. Mariachi
Huenachi has performed across the state, including at the state capitol and professional sporting events. At right, Mariachi Huenachi musicians and accompanying
dancers perform at the Capitol Rotunda in Olympia earlier this year.
She understood that it had not always
been so, that before Rivera arrived
there were no academic prerequisites
to participate in mariachi. In fact, she
heard that back in the day, some seniors
intentionally did not graduate so they
could repeat as Mariachi Huenachi
members.
Apocryphal or not, such things would
not be allowed to happen today.
Another Mariachi Huenachi member,
sophomore Andrea Cuevas, noted
that “If you don’t have a 3.0 GPA,
Mr. Rivera is on your back.” But it’s
not just nagging that drives her. She
loves mariachi music and needs good
grades to play it. Therefore, “If you’re
passionate about mariachi, you’re
motivated to do better in other classes,”
she said. “Since getting involved in
mariachi, my grades have skyrocketed
to a 3.5 GPA.”
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Natalia Esquivel has studied
mariachi since she was a
seventh grader at Orchard
Middle School. Now a senior,
she will attend college this
fall, choosing from among
four in-state universities
— UW, WSU, Eastern and
Western — that have already
sent her an acceptance letter.
Andrea also is motivated by a dream
she’s held to steadfastly since eighth
grade — to earn a Ph.D. in criminology
and sociology, with the ultimate goal
of being an FBI agent. “I know that
everything is possible, and that no one
can take an education away from me.”
Both Andrea and Natalia, whose
parents immigrated here from Mexico,
noted the music’s deep connection to
their culture. Some of the songs they
perform are more than 100 years old
“We Hispanics hold on to our
traditions,” Natalia said. “And we like
to pay respect to our elders.” She
remembers when her grandmother,
visiting from Mexico, cried upon
hearing Natalia perform with Mariachi
Huenachi.
In a way, the music is serving as
their bridge from the past to a brighter
future. They’re moving up, in large part
thanks to mariachi.
Further ahead on that trajectory is
Noemi Bazan, a teacher at Pioneer
Middle School. Like Natalia, she got
involved in mariachi as a middle
Rivera fixes the bow on Katie Badillo’s suit prior to a March show at the Performing
Arts Center of Wenatchee.
schooler and was a junior in 2005, when
Rivera arrived. In her senior year, when
Bazan was a violinist with Mariachi
Azteca, Rivera began encouraging
this daughter of orchard workers to
attend college. Not WVC. A four-year
institution.
He wrote letters of recommendation
for her and pushed her to apply, to leave
town for a degree. Later, he encouraged
her to return. In 2012, after graduating
from Central Washington University
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with a secondary mathematics degree,
Bazan landed a contract to teach at
Pioneer.
“I don’t think I would have gone to a
four-year university without Mr. Rivera.
It was important, just having him there
to open my mind and telling me to go
away so I could come back.”
She also loves being in Wenatchee,
where she was born. “Sometimes
success is not measured by going out,
but by giving back. I’m really happy
to be giving back in education what I
was given.”
She loves her job. “First-year teaching
is hard, but I’m getting better,” she said.
“I see Mr. Rivera as a role model, and I
understand that my students see me as
a role model.”
This Mr. Rivera to whom she refers
was himself born in California, not
Wenatchee. But like Bazan, when it
came time to teach, he returned to a
school close to where he graduated
from high school.
Music had come first. Encouraged
Martin Meza, a Wenatchee
High School junior, plays
trumpet in Mariachi Huenachi.
Below left, the vihuela is a
smaller, five-string version
of a guitar. Below right, the
authentic outfit worn by
mariachi band members is
called a traje de charro.
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AP photos
Mariachi Huenachi performs before a Seattle Sounders game last September.
by his mother, Rivera began playing a
garage-sale trumpet in the fourth grade.
When he was in the marching band at
Camarillo High School, a bandmate
asked him to help start a mariachi
group. It eventually morphed into more
of a family combo, with Rivera’s sister
and two brothers, who are professional
mariachis today.
“We had mariachi fever,” Rivera says
today. He learned how to play every
instrument employed by mariachis
— guitar, guitarron, vihuela, violin,
trumpet. The group played at weddings
and parties, including one at Frankie
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Valli’s house.
That experience, plus Rivera’s degree
in ethnomusicology from Cal State
Northridge, led to an offer to create a
mariachi program at Oxnard High, 15
miles from Camarillo. There, he found a
student body that was up to 70 percent
Latino, an administration less than
completely supportive of the musical
arts, and fellow teachers who were
not enthusiastic about the prospect of
teaching mariachi.
So Rivera was receptive in 2005 when
Wenatchee School District officials
recruited him. First impressions were
a little off-putting. “I’d never even been
to Washington before, and when we
flew over the mountains on the way to
Wenatchee, I wondered what I’d gotten
myself into.”
But once here, he found many things
to like.
Foremost was a district whose
administration was wholly supportive
of its music programs. Unlike Oxnard,
“At Wenatchee High, any student who
wants to play an instrument is provided
with one. Mr. Flones (superintendent
Brian) does not want this to be ‘pay-toplay,’ ” Rivera said. “This district will
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Plus, mariachi in the schools was well
established here — Wenatchee’s was
the first such program in the state when
it began in 1993.
Rivera, who lives in Three Lakes
with his wife and 3-year-old son, also
enjoys the same attributes appreciated
by many of us who live in this valley,
especially when compared with the L.A.
area — relatively inexpensive housing,
minuscule utility costs and a paucity of
traffic.
When Rivera arrived, the district
had a mariachi class at each middle
school and two at the high school.
Now there are 14 mariachi classes,
including some at elementary schools.
Three-hundred students are involved
in the program, including 100 at the
high school.
There has been growth in numbers,
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but also in the breadth of mariachi’s
appeal. Mariachi Huenachi currently
has one non-Latino member, a blond
girl who plays vihuela and sings along
in Spanish, though she does not speak
that language. Rivera thinks that next
year’s edition of the group may include
three or four non-Latinos.
“Why not?” he says. “Mariachi
music is for everybody. This is not a
migrant program, not a Latino program.
The power of music brings people
together, and we’re trying to change the
stereotype of mariachi.”
This means that mariachi is authentic
Mexican folk music, not just street
music or the music of cantinas and men
in serapes and sombreros, leaning back
against a saguaro.
But beyond sustaining a valid art
form, for Rivera, mariachi is a means
to another end: creating leaders. “Our
youth get a bad rap,” he said. “We need
to talk more about the good things that
they do. Their biggest barrier is low
self-esteem — they don’t think they
can do it. But with the power of music,
we’re able to inspire kids to go for
more.”
By “more” he means the
opportunity to be good students,
leaders and role models. “These guys
are public figures,” Rivera said. “You
put on that blue uniform, and you’re
not just representing Wenatchee High
School. You’re representing the entire
valley, the Latino community, even the
state.”
As was the case in February, when
Gov. Jay Inslee summoned Mariachi
Huenachi to Olympia to provide apt
musical accompaniment to his signing
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Honors have been plentiful for the
group and for Rivera, who in March
was named one of five state winners
of the Jefferson Award, called the
“Nobel Prize for community and public
service.”
But it all begins in the classroom.
On the day that girl violinist
auditioned, the 2 p.m. daily gathering
of Mariachi Huenachi took place in the
same large room. Before they played a
bright selection from their repertoire
— with Rivera wandering among them,
his trumpet in one hand, interjecting
arpeggios on his trumpet, giving tips
and directions to the players — there
were announcements.
Rivera extended congratulations for
last week’s performance, displayed
the newly printed calendar featuring
images of the group, reminded them
of the spring break concert at the
University of Idaho, and spoke of the
three $6,000 scholarships that WSU
had offered especially to members
of Mariachi Huenachi who might
be interested in participating in a
summer music program.
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By cal fitzsimmons
OffBeat
O
riginally from Ecuador, Wilson
P. Alvarez is the music minister
at St. Joseph Catholic Parish
in Wenatchee. He moved to Wenatchee
in 2010 after serving as the principal
pianist of the Ecuadorian National
Symphony Orchestra, then principal
conductor of the Quito Metropolitan
Symphony Band and principal
conductor of the Quito Metropolitan
Symphony Orchestra. He has performed
internationally in Italy, Portugal,
Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, as well as
the United States. He will be joined in
concert May 30 at 7 p.m. at St. Joseph
with renowned Washington, D.C.,
soprano Amedee Royer. This interview
was done entirely by text message.
Let’s see if you can sum up in a short
text how you ended up living in good ol’
Wenatchee, Washington.
My family and I got the permanent
resident visa to come to the U.S. and first
arrived in Richland, Wash., I applied and
got offered a job as the musical minister
at St. Joseph Catholic Church. This was
fall 2010. We moved from Ecuador, our
hometown, in July 2009.
Texting ...
Wilson Alvarez
With your impressive credentials,
did it take extra patience in that new job
here?
All jobs that include music require
patience. In every job I have had I
developed a unique set of skills that
allow me to do my job as best I can.
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Let’s test your patience with this
question. Mike Judge, the creator of
Beavis and Butt-head, is from Ecuador.
Is he celebrated there or do people
pretend they don’t know who he is?
Are you ever invited to social
gatherings where there just happens to
be a piano handy? If you know what I
mean.
Yes, that
doesn’t
happen very
often but we
have friends
that happen
to have the
instrument
and the
opportunity
to play arises.
Honestly, this is the first time I’ve
heard about him. And it’s also the first
time I’ve heard about Beavis and Butthead. Can you tell I’m old?
Hmm. What was your biggest
adjustment to living in this country?
My biggest adjustment was the
language. Even though I had learned
English before, day-to-day speaking
and being able to understand certain
accents has been a challenge.
How about the food. Do you
and your family enjoy fast food like
McDonald’s?
Yes we
enjoy it,
but we do
not eat it
frequently. We prefer to cook at home
like we did in Ecuador.
What musical ambitions remain for
you?
Fortunately all the music repertoire
is so vast that I don’t think I will live long
enough to play even a small part of it.
Are there things about this country
that still puzzle you?
Absolutely!
The insurance
and the medical
systems.
Are there contemporary artists you
enjoy. I mean pop, hip-hop, country or
stuff like that?
I have an eclectic musical taste.
As a conductor you should be able to
approach and understand any kind of
genre repertoire. For instance, I have
conducted plays, operas, rock music
with band, rock music with orchestra
with popular singers, sacred music for
choir and band among others. In my
family music is ever-present. My wife is
a singer, my daughters are dancers and
teach dance and Zumba classes. And
my youngest is a drum player in the
Wenatchee marching band. As you can
see, I have to like it all!
I’ll take that as meaning you’re a
big Miley Cyrus fan. What do you enjoy
more, conducting or playing?
I enjoy doing both. For me, playing
and conducting are the same at a certain
level because as a conductor you play a
bigger instrument that is made out of a
group of people. As a pianist, you play
the keys directly.
You used to travel quite a lot to
perform. Do you see more of that in the
future?
Actually, I got an invitation to
conduct the Symphonic Orchestra of
Ecuador as a guest conductor this year.
I would like to conduct other orchestras
in the U.S. and abroad if I had the
opportunity.
Congratulations. What do you miss
most about your home country?
I miss attending and playing weekly
concerts with different orchestras. I also
miss my extended family, the food and
the beautiful landscape of my country.
What can we
expect from your
concert with
Amedee Royer?
I expect to satisfy the audience with
our new repertoire. We will perform
musical pieces by Puccini, Rodgers,
Bernstein, Gounod and others. St.
Joseph Catholic Church, where the
event will take place, hosted 600 people
last year. And I hope that we have a
greater attendance this year.
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ncw recreation
Day Hiking
The Ench
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Story By M.K. Resk photos By mike bonnicksen
antments
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With Colchuck Lake behind them, Julie and Jason Morley of Wenatchee start climbing over boulders and scree as they
make their way up to Aasgard Pass. They’ll climb over 2,000 vertical feet in about a mile. (Previous pages: Hikers walk through
Enchantment Basin, headed toward Prusik Peak, seen in the background.)
M
ention the word
Enchantments to someone
from North Central
Washington and you are sure to get a
variety of reactions. There will be oohs
of envy from non-hikers, trials and
tribulations from seasoned backpackers,
and aahs of wonder from everyone
who has ventured into the Alpine Peak
Wilderness area.
The allure of the Enchantments is
all it is cracked up to be, as evidenced
by the complex permit system put into
place to monitor the popularity of this
grand place. A several day backpack
excursion is recommended as a surefire
way to enjoy the lakes and mountains.
But if you are short on time, unlucky in
receiving a permit in advance or in the
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last-minute lottery, or if you just want a
big challenge, hiking the Enchantments
in a day is doable and even enjoyable
for most active people who are
experienced hikers.
Affectionately known as the Death
March, the 18-mile trek is arduous and
should not be undertaken lightly.
Here are some tips to help get
you started and keep you safe.
Adam Vognild, an experienced local
outdoorsman and co-owner/trainer of
Inner Circle Gym, adds his tips, as well.
Get fit
If you don’t already exercise regularly,
be sure to start walking frequently,
hiking shorter trips like Saddle Rock
or Sage Hills, and use a treadmill or
stairmill at a gym to simulate some of
the steep terrain you will encounter.
If possible, check out a portion of the
Enchantments trail by hiking to Snow
Lakes or Colchuck or Stuart lakes. Your
full route will
enter and/or
exit via one of
these trails.
Vognild
suggests
focusing
on balance,
strength and
core work. He
says the idea
is to gradually
build mileage
so that you
Adam Vognild,
don’t shock
co-owner/trainer at
Inner Circle Gym
your joints.
Think of it
like training for a marathon. You’ll
be on unstable ground so anything
that mimics this and offers dynamic
movement — steps ups on a tire,
sandbag get-ups, plank walk-ups, squats
— are useful. Use the gym for interval
work.
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The preference here is to find
someone who has weathered these
trails before. It is always best to hike
with someone and to tell someone at
home your route and expected trip so
that they can help in the event of an
emergency. Though this route is welltraveled, it is still very possible to lose
your way. Bring a map and compass
and know how to use them. And don’t
rely on cell phones for guidance since
even in this increasingly wired world,
backroads are not always covered
in cell terrain. This route is not for
beginners.
Pack light, pack smart
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extra food, rain gear and extra clothing,
safety items — fire, light and whistle,
first-aid kit; knife or multi-purpose tool,
sunscreen and glasses, and daypack/
backpack (source: americanhiking.
org/10essentials/). High-calorie,
protein-filled foods like trail mix,
sausages and energy bars provide quick
fuel to keep you going. A headlamp and
trekking poles can be helpful. Don’t
forget layered clothing, hats, gloves and
an emergency shelter or blanket to keep
you comfortable and safe along your
journey.
Vognild says to bring just what
you need and nothing more. Since
you won’t be hiking with a heavy
backpack, he suggests hiking in light
shoes like good gym shoes instead of
bulky boots.
Hikers climb up to Aasgard Pass
from the upper Enchantments.
Below right, it’s not uncommon to
see mountain goats while hiking
in the Enchantments. Give them a
wide berth and don’t harass them.
Be prepared
Preparation isn’t just for Boy Scouts.
It’s important to hike within your limits
and to have a back-up plan to stay safe
in case things don’t work out. Utilize
a team approach. Drop one car at one
trailhead and another at the other
trailhead. This allows the group to stay
together, to have a car at either end,
and to make use of the most sunlight
possible. Choose dry weather in the
middle of summer when the days are
longest. The typical window is midJuly to early September, but weather
conditions change from year to year. Be
prepared for rain or snow at any time
of year. It is hard to gauge how long
the trip will take, but the trail can take
some groups well into the dark hours at
dawn and dusk.
I prefer hiking in via Lake Colchuck
and out via Snow Lakes. This involves
scrambling up the scree of Aasgard
Pass and descending down rocky
crevices and over six miles of gradual
switchbacks from Snow Lakes. Some
prefer the opposite route, heading
uphill from Snow Lakes, down Aasgard
and out via Lake Colchuck. Some even
choose to avoid Aasgard entirely by
hiking in and out Snow Lakes.
Vognild prefers hiking in Snow
Lakes and out via Colchuck. Since this
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Julie and Jason Morley of Wenatchee stop in the upper Enchantments for a snack
and a break, overlooking Tranquil and Isolation lakes.
route involves hiking down the loose
rock field of Aasgard Pass, he strongly
encourages people to hike with trekking
poles to help their knees absorb the
bumps.
Be trail smart
Pack your trash in and out, use
backcountry toilets whenever
possible, don’t feed or harass animals
you may encounter along the way,
don’t speak loudly or create new trails
or shortcuts. For more information on
trail etiquette, visit americanhiking.
org. Also definitely check out the
Forest Service website for more
detailed information about the area
(www.fs.usda.gov).
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Hikers work their way along
the trail as they start to head
out of the Enchantments and
down to Snow Lake. Below,
after climbing over Aasgard
Pass, the calm waters of
Isolation Lake are one of the
first views as you get into the
Enchantment Basin.
Snow Lakes
Trailhead
To Leavenworth
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Stuart
Trailhead
Coney Lake
Lake Stuart
Colchuck
Lake
Shield Lake
Nada Lake
Prusik Pass
6,720 feet
Aasgard
Pass
7,840 feet
Enchantment Lakes
Snow
Lakes
Wilderness rules: Keeping
the Enchantments enchanting
A permit is required for both day and
overnight Enchantments trips between
June 15 and Oct. 15 every year.
For day-trippers, a free, self-issue permit
is available at the Stuart and Snow Lakes
Trailheads. A parking permit (a valid
recreation pass such as a Northwest Forest
Pass) is required at trailhead lots.
Luck must be on your side to get an
overnight permit through the U.S. Forest
Service permit lottery. The agency received
almost 9,000 permit applications this year
and awarded 1,700 permits for use during
the four-month season. Overnight permits
cost $5 per person per day.
There are three ways to obtain an
overnight permit:
1. Annual lottery held in February/March
at recreation.gov
2. Online reservation at recreation.gov if
any leftover permits are available
3. Daily “walk-in” permits — only one
permit for each of the five Enchantment
zones distributed at 7:45 am at Wenatchee
River Ranger District office during permit
season.
All users should tread lightly in this
fragile, high-alpine area. Gabrielle Snider,
Wenatchee River Ranger Station manager,
strongly advises the following:
Stay on the trail and off the vegetation.
Follow Leave No Trace guidelines.
Plan and prepare. Understand the
difficulty, hazards and risks of the hike. You
should know how to handle yourself in the
backcountry wilderness, which is much
different than running down a road. Make
sure you’re assessing your fitness and have
the 10 Essentials.
It is very crowded. If you can go on a
non-weekend day you are going to have
more of a wilderness-like experience, more
solitude and less of an impact on others.
Pick a non-weekend day in August.
Use the existing vault and pit toilets.
Not adhering to this policy contributes
to the existing problems of goats
encountering humans to lap up minerals
from their waste.
Here are Snider’s suggestions for
alternative day/weekend hikes:
u Ingalls Lake and Headlight Basin
u Spider Meadows
u Chain Lakes
u Hatchery Creek trail to Lake Augusta
u Katie Ridge
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Above, a hiker takes a break surrounded by the beauty of the Enchantments. Above,
Crystal Lake. At left, rock cairns mark the trail when it gets hard to follow along the
18-mile Enchantments loop hike.
The Forest Service accurately
describes the terrain as “typified by
rugged glaciated peaks and a series
of lakes ranging from 4,400 feet to
7,800 feet in elevation. The lower
trails and lakes are forested, while
the upper lakes are within a largely
alpine environment. Trails are in
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places quite primitive, with steep,
rocky sections. The trails to Eightmile
and Stuart Lake are relatively flat
and suited to beginners. The trails to
Snow Lake, Colchuck Lake and Windy
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traveling to the Core Enchantments
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Jason and Julie Morley of
Wenatchee have hiked the
Enchantments as a day hike twice
over the past few years. They like
hiking it because it’s a challenge and
gives them something to train for.
They suggest training by hiking to
Colchuck Lake in and out at least a
couple of times prior to your trip and
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Using trekking poles, Jason and Julie
Morley carefully sidestep down a slick
snow patch. If they were to fall here they
would have a chance of either sliding
into rocks or icy cold water below them.
make sure you can do this without
being overly fatigued. Their first
hiking trip was a bit more dramatic
than they intended, as they hiked
the last several miles in darkness.
They were better prepared for their
second trip. They suggest bringing a
water filter and “hydrate, hydrate, and
hydrate. It is difficult to try and carry
enough water. Bring a light source and
extra layers of clothing. Try and go
with someone who knows the route,”
Jason Morley advises.
If hiking the Enchantments sounds
like a good goal, you may even want
to make an appointment to meet with
a trainer to set up a personalized
training program. This can be fairly
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Gamble Sands, Hole 5, Par 4, plays
between 392 yards and 517 yards
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David McLay Kidd,
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A family’s vision comes to fruition
on the stark hills of the Columbia
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uild it and they will come.
How many and how often
is still an unknown because
the Gamble Sands Golf Course isn’t
scheduled to open to the public until
Aug. 2.
But course architect David McLay
Kidd believes that once golfers get a
chance to play this remote desert prize
— an oasis of green along the stark,
sandy hills at a turn of the Columbia
River near Brewster — they will return
again and again.
Kidd was commissioned to design
the course by the Gebbers family,
owner of Gebbers Farms, one of the
nation’s largest producers of apples and
cherries.
Kidd is a renowned designer of
Scottish-style links courses defined
by wind-swept fescue grass, abundant
sand and only natural features. He
designed the Castle Course at St.
Andrews, Scotland; Tetherow in Bend,
Ore., where he lives; and Bandon
Dunes in Bandon, Ore., among many
others. The Scottish-born architect is
working on a new course on the coast
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Gamble Sands, Hole 2, Par 4, plays between 188 yards and 301 yards
of Portugal now.
Gamble Sands is the equal to any of
those courses in terms of its reliance
on natural geography, beauty and
challenge, he said. He fully expects it
to draw golfers from Seattle, Spokane,
British Columbia, Portland and
farther.
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The new course was designed to be
inviting, rather than intimidating, for
the average golfer.
“We golf course designers have
been trying too hard to intimidate
Tiger Woods,” he said. “But if we
succeed, what does that do to the
average golfer?”
“There will be plenty of challenges,
but David’s design makes it fun, and
you won’t get beat up by the golf
course,” said Dave Christenson, the
course’s general manager and golf pro.
The Gebbers family hired Christenson
and OB Sports, a golf management
company based in Scottsdale, Ariz., to
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Hole 14, Par 4, plays between 255 yards and 437 yards. Below, Hole 12, Par 4, plays between 189 yards and 333 yards.
The Gamble Sands scorecard tells part of the course’s story. When it opens in
August, it will be the region’s first Scottish links course.
manage the course.
The small clubhouse includes a
pub-style restaurant with sweeping
views of the Columbia River and the
Cascade Mountains. “It will be a place
to grab a bite to eat or a glass a wine
and enjoy the view even for those
who don’t golf,” Christenson said.
Gamble Sands’ 120-acres of fescue
grass fairways and abundance of
sand is laid out on nearly 700 acres
of rolling contours 600 feet above
the Columbia. The challenges of
natural geography may cause some
frustrating double bogeys, but it will
be hard to lose a ball in the process,
Kidd said. Playing the course will be a
defining golf event, he said, but it will
also be fun.
“I want the average golfer to
succeed,” he said. Using various tees,
a golfer can play the course as short as
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Gamble Sands, Hole 16, Par 3, plays between 141 yards and 225 yards
4,900 yards or as long as 7,300 yards.
There are many stunning views
and fascinating geology to be found
in North Central Washington, he said.
What makes Gamble Sands unique
is the deep sand that serves as its
foundation. Kidd was told the deep sand
was deposited at the bend in the river
millions of years ago as glaciers that
covered the region receded. The high
plateau was once covered with water.
“I’m no geologist so I don’t know
why it’s there, but I’m pleased.
Everything was there naturally,” he
said. Most links courses are built
along the coast, but not all. One of
the most famous links-design courses
is Sand Hills in a remote part of
Nebraska.
Kidd said a unique set of
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circumstances had to come together
to create Gamble Sands. The family
had the finances, owned the unique
and ideal property, and had the vision
to research what had to be done to
build an exceptional course for the
future.
Foremost was the vision of the
Gebbers family that has farmed and
forested the region around Brewster
for well over 100 years. Gamble
Sands is named for Dan Gamble, a
prospector who walked out from
Nova Scotia in 1885. He started a
sawmill near Brewster in 1894 and
planted his first orchard there in 1910.
His daughter, Martha, married John
Gebbers in 1927.
Building a golf course isn’t a plan
for quick recovery of investment and
capital gain, but a vision for the future
by a family that intends to care for the
land and see the area grow through
successive generations, said Tory
Wulf, a Gebbers family member who
oversees the project. Long-range plans
include a second course, lodging and a
resort built out of view of the course.
“That could come in three years,
or it could be 30 years. We’re very
conservative in our movement. We
have a great region here and we think
once people come here, they’ll want to
come again and again,” said Wulf.
“I believe people will come,” said
Kidd. “People can play at a true Scottish
links course without having to fly
across the Atlantic. I think this course is
worthy of being one of the best courses
in the United States.” F
Gamble Sands, Hole 9, Par 4, plays between 296 yards and 429 yards
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When Craig and Danielle Mitrakul started Crayelle
Cellars a few years ago, they focused solely on
producing wines made from Syrah and Riesling
grapes. They have recently expanded their mix to
include a couple of red blends and a white wine
made from Albarino grapes.
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ver the past 10 years, Craig
Mitrakul has played a
significant role in bringing
North Central Washington into the
wine limelight.
Now head winemaker at prestigious
Karma Vineyards in Chelan, Mitrakul
believes the region’s wine quality is on
the precipice of worldwide acclaim.
Its growth potential, he believes,
is unlimited. He’s invested in that
belief with a small winery of his own,
Crayelle Cellars, while crafting fine
wines for others.
“I wanted to be a part of an up-andcoming area and be part of the growth
rather than ride the wave,” Mitrakul
said about his move from Walla Walla
to the Wenatchee Valley a decade ago.
Establishing new American
Viticultural Areas at Lake Chelan and in
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Story By rick steigmeyer photos By ron mason
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Above, wine is aged in oak
barrels and stainless steel
barrels at the Karma Vineyards
production plant in Entiat.
At right, Karma employees
Mandy Rediske, left, and
Jeanie Kapple tap bidules into
sparkling wine bottles. The
bidules collect sediment that
will be removed when the crown
caps are replaced with corks
during bottle fermentation.
At far right, Rediske tapping
bidules prior to crown capping
for bottle fermentation.
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the Quincy area (Ancient Lakes AVA)
has forced the wine world to stop and
take notice of a region that previously
wasn’t on their maps, he said.
“I feel fortunate that I fell into an
industry that is growing and where I
can have that aspect of creativity,” he
said.
Mitrakul’s youthful looks — he’s 41 —
humble demeanor and soft-spoken style
mask his wide experience. He’s worked
winemaking stints in Walla Walla
(Three Rivers Winery) and Patterson
(Chateau Ste. Michelle), Oregon’s
Willamette Valley (Ponzi Vineyards),
Southeast Australia (Rosemount
Estates) and New York’s Finger Lakes
Region (Lamoureaux Landing Wine
Cellars), gaining experience in making
world-class Riesling, Pinot Noir, Syrah,
Cabernet Sauvignon and sparkling
wines.
He brought his expertise to NCW in
2004. At that time, he was one of only a
few college- and commercially trained
winemakers in the area. He earned
a bachelor’s degree in food science
from Rutgers University in New Jersey
in 1994. He earned a master’s degree
with a focus on enology at Cornell
University in New York.
Mitrakul helped set up production
facilities and was head winemaker
for two of NCW’s pioneering and
best-known wineries, Ryan Patrick
Vineyards and Saint Laurent Winery.
Both of those wineries have since
been sold to larger organizations while
retaining their vineyards. New owners
of both wineries continue to make wine
under their original well-established
labels.
“I was fortunate to work with Ryan
Patrick and Saint Laurent for people
who had a vision for this area,” he said
about Ryan Patrick’s Terry Flanagan
and Saint Laurent’s Mike and Laura
Mrachek. He said the two wineries
worked together — as have other
wineries in the area — to create a
synergy that has helped the entire local
wine industry and local economy grow
and prosper.
Mitrakul has taught wine science
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Danielle and Craig Mitrakul’s boutique winery produces about 300 cases annually. Here, they chat wine with a customer in their
Cashmere tasting room. At right, sparkling wine bottles enter the line to be filled at Karma Vineyards’ production plant in Entiat.
classes at Wenatchee Valley College
and consulted for several other
wineries in NCW, where the number
of wineries has grown from a dozen to
nearly 80 in the past decade.
He was hired last year to set up
a new processing center for Karma
Vineyards. Owned by Bret and Julie
Pittsinger, Karma is one of the state’s
premier makers of Champagne-style
sparkling wines.
The Pittsingers opened Karma in
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2007 as the region’s first methode
champenoise specialist. They hired a
fourth-generation French Champagne
consultant to teach them the fine art
of making sparkling wine. Veteran
Chelan vintner Ray Sandidge was
Karma’s first head winemaker.
Julie is a former Olympic swimmer
and champion triathlete. She and Bret,
president of the family business Van
Doren Sales, started the ChelanMan
Triathlon Multisport Event. She has a
Craig Mitrakul sets up a wine hose to
pump wine from the bottom to the top
of a wine tank for mixing at the Karma
Vineyards production plant in Entiat.
degree in viticulture from Washington
State University and manages Karma’s
14-acre vineyard overlooking Lake
Chelan.
Karma holds weddings, parties
and serves meals at its Chelan estate,
complete with underground tasting
room and aging cave built in the
style of the wineries of France’s
Champagne region.
Mitrakul and wife Danielle started
their own winery, Crayelle Cellars,
only a few years ago. The tiny
boutique winery has a tasting room in
Cashmere.
Both Karma and Crayelle wines
are made at Karma’s new production
facility in Entiat. Mitrakul set up the
production center in an 18,000-squarefoot former apple warehouse using
much of the same equipment he
used at Ryan Patrick. That winery
in Cashmere was sold to Milbrandt
Vineyards in Mattawa. Milbrandt
didn’t need the equipment, so it was
sold to Karma. The equipment was
previously used by Mitrakul for Ryan
Patrick at its original location in Rock
Island and by Ryan Patrick and Saint
Laurent at a shared facility Mitrakul
set up near Quincy.
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Karma bottled about 3,000 cases of
wine last year, half of it white and red
still wines, and half sparkling wines.
Mitrakul bottled another bottled 300
cases of his own Crayelle wines.
New equipment and greatly
expanded space in Entiat means
Karma is set for increases in
production. Mitrakul said Karma will
double its sparkling wine production
to about 3,000 cases this year, while
keeping its still wine production at
1,500 cases.
Mitrakul said his work for Karma,
although much smaller in total
production than the 15,000 to 25,000case output he’s overseen in past
years, is challenging, satisfying and
makes good use of his abilities.
There’s much to learn and many
more steps involved in making great
sparkling wine.
“Sparkling wine is about three
times the work as still wines,” he said.
Sparkling wines are treated more like
red wines, usually taking two years
before release. Once fermentation
is completed, the wine is aged in
bottles rather than in barrels. To be
considered methode champenoise,
the bottled wine must spend a
minimum of nine months on the
lees, the spent yeast that converted
the sugar in the grapes to alcohol.
After aging, the bottles are inverted
to let the lees accumulate in the
neck. Special equipment freezes the
settlement, which is then removed
from the bottle and replaced with a
dosage, a secret mixture of less than
an ounce of sweet juice that will give
the wine a signature taste and restart
fermentation to produce the bubbles
that make the wine sparkle.
Karma also produces a barrel-aged
Chardonnay, an estate Riesling and
Gewürztraminer blend, Cabernet
Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, and three red
blends, a dessert wine and a soon-to-be
released brandy.
Mitrakul is equally excited about his
personal projects for Crayelle Cellars.
His initial plan when he and Danielle
started the winery was to stick with
making the best possible wine from the
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The Crayelle name comes from combining Craig and Danielle Mitrakul’s first names.
two grapes he thinks Washington grows
best, Riesling and Syrah.
He’s since added a couple red blends
and the less-well-known Spanish white,
Albarino. They’ve proven to be very
popular.
“It took awhile to realize that
you also have to make wines that
people want,” he said with a laugh.
He’s content to move slowly on his
personal venture for now, while
maintaining focus on his day job and
raising two young children.
“We’re looking for slow, steady
growth and grow it as it fits in our
lives,” he said about Crayelle. F
upon further review
By barb Robertson
2010 Karma Brut
Methode Champenoise, $50
Sparkling wine is often thought of as a
special occasion wine or something you sip on
as you mingle at a party. Get out of that box
folks because sparkling wine’s natural acidity
loves food, meaning it could be an everyday
wine. Karma does a nice with this local version.
Quince, musk, honey float upwards from the
glass and echo on the palate along with apricot
pit notes. The bubble is assertive, but not overly
so … it gives your mouth a nice clean feeling
on the finish. The wonderful acidity will work
magic on a variety of foods. I couldn’t help but
think of a cheese called D’Affinois when tasting
this wine; it would be a great match with its rich
creaminess and slight musky, nutty taste. This
particular bottle probably isn’t an everydayer,
but it’s a nice way to celebrate … even if it’s just
because it’s Friday!
Oak barrels of Karma’s brandy age
inside the fenced distillery area at
Karma Vineyards.
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They all add up to a great evening.
Saturday, August 23
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Upon further review
White Heron Cellars
2012 Arvine, $16
Leave it to Cameron Fries to find something rare
and make a go of it. This is the only Arvine you
will find in the state of Washington. In fact, there is
probably nowhere else in the United States where
it is grown. Arvine is an unusual white varietal
that comes from Switzerland and since the Swiss
drink most of the wine they make, you don’t see it
around here very often. The wine is fragrant with
oranges, grapefruit and a freshly cut Granny Smith
apple. On the palate, it’s full bodied and tastes like
a citrus salad you’re eating off a slate slab. The
wine is elegant, very pleasant and would be a great
companion to oysters, clams or grilled-firm fleshed
fish. Put out a cheese plate and this would make a
great Apple Blossom party wine.
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Tsillan Cellars
2010 Estate Sinistra, $28
Sinistra is made up of three Italian varietals —
42 percent Sangiovese, 42 percent Barbera and 16
percent Nebbiolo. As many of you know, Italians
love food and they make their wine to accompany
food rather than wines that are so heavy they might
as well be a meal. This blend is made in that vein.
The color is a vibrant red. Think about picking a
cherry off a tree and while you’re eating it, a gentle
breeze wafts the scents of the nearby herb garden
into your nose — that’s what is coming out of the
glass. The flavors start with cherry but there are
added nuances of berries, fennel and herbs such as
rosemary. Grilled sausages, ribs or veggies and even
grilled pizza would be fabulous with this wine.
A taste of NCW wines with barb robertson
Barb Robertson
Chateau Faire Le Ponte 2009
Grenache, $30
Around here, you might think that Riesling or
Merlot were the most widely planted grapes in
the world, but that isn’t the case. That title goes
to Grenache. Some of you may never even have
heard of this grape. Don’t feel bad, it’s still not that
common in Washington. It probably originated in
Spain, but it is at its most famous as the primary
grape in Chateauneuf du Pape, the powerful French
wine out of the Southern Rhone Valley. Chateau
Faire Le Ponte’s version is a nice and easy drink.
As with most Grenache, it has a lot of berry fruit
going on, with some black plum and Bing cherry in
the background. It also has some lovely pumpkin
pie spice. The finish is long with a hint of caramel.
You may have noticed a grilling theme with the food
pairings so far, so bring on the ribs with this wine!
City: Wenatchee
Credentials: Earned advanced
certification through Londonbased Wine and Spirit Education
Trust; currently working toward
higher-level diploma through
WSET. Earned degree in marketing
from Central Washington
University. Owned The Wine Bin
retail shop in Wenatchee for five
years. Has worked in the Northwest
wine industry more than 10 years,
including distribution, sales,
production and marketing. Judged
the 2011, 2012 and 2013 North
Central Washington Wine Awards.
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the scene
photos By frank cone
Hiro and Kumiko Harui and Zane, a lab
mix
Aubrey Noel, Danielle Noel and Izzy, a
Boston terrier
W
enatchee FIDO —
Friends Improving Dog
Opportunities — organized
its first Pack Walk at Riverfront Park on
March 22. The walk drew many dogs
(on leashes) and their doggie-wastebag-toting owners.
Wenatchee FIDO was founded in
2009 by a group of dog lovers interested
in creating off-leash dog parks in the
Wenatchee Valley. After several years
of work, the group is now collaborating
with the city of Wenatchee to make the
first public dog park a reality.
Below, Troy and Christine Knapp and
Havoc, a German shepherd mix, and
Rumor, an Amstaff
Vikki Hopkins and Lola, a beagle
Rachel Anderson (black sweater),
Angela Anderson, Melissa Anderson
(red sweatshirt) and Tug, a border collie
Amy Fischer and Chico, a mixed breed
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SHOPPING
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• Saturday, May 10th, 1-3 p.m, Sheila Roberts will
be signing her latest heart warming romance “In
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Meet authors Erica Bauermeister, Kevin
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at Wenatchee Library, Friday May 30th at the
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May 31st, 11am at the bookstore.
• Saturday June 14th, 1-3 p.m., Kimberly Rose
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Central America in her early twenty’s. She, then, set out
to design her dream hammock and has been showing them
at major art shows nationwide. The lost art technique of
weaving that she uses is not typical of hammock weaving
but has many advantages. The cordage she uses is made in
the US by order only and is durable and long lasting. You
may try one out in her gallery in Cashmere through May
and orders can be made. The hammocks can be made with
custom colors and embellishments. You can see more on her
website.
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parting shot
Cashmere Mountain is reflected in Colchuck Lake as seen from the trail to Aasgard Pass.
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