The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

This weekend I catered and attended a friend's 60th birthday party. Filling the table with an array of appropriate wine tasting nibbles, everyone brought their own bottles of regional and local wines to share with one another.

Somewhere in the first few sips of Balboa Winery's 09 Syrah, I pulled the wine guys arm and said, "Have you tasted this wine?" We were both floored being Syrah red wine lovers, and unsuspecting of this wineries vintage; superb in every way. Let me explain.

Balboa winemaker/owner, Tom Glase is someone you can talk to. He's funny and laughs about almost everything but t...