Piccola Cellars, which started up in 2010, is a certified carbon-neutral winery that began bringing their products to the Carnation Farmers Market in 2012. At their booth, you’ll find that they sell their wine in 1.5 liter completely recyclable plastic totes, which have 1/14th of the carbon footprint that two glass bottles would for the same amount of wine. Piccola Cellars offers a Riesling, a Pinot Gris, a Syrah, an unoaked crisp and clean Chardonnay, a Bordeaux, and an underappreciated Merlot. You’ll also find these varieties in their reusable and returnable glass liter bottles (if you return your bottle for reuse, you get $5.00 off the next bottle you buy, so that you’re only paying for the wine). Everyone at Piccola Cellars enjoys coming to markets to sell their wine as they love to meet and talk to the community. Piccola Cellars began selling at farmers’ markets in 2012 as they realized that they have a local product, which should accordingly be sold locally.
Piccola Cellars’ totes contain quality wine that is ready to be consumed: there is no need to wait. The tote keeps the blends fresh for over a month, as the valve inhibits oxidation. The recyclable tote and the reusable bottles and kegs eliminate product and packaging waste. These packaging methods are an extension of Piccola Cellars’ environmental ethic. Another one of Piccola Cellars’ focuses is locality: their grapes are Washington-grown in the Yakima and Columbia valleys.
Interested in trying Piccola Cellars’ wine on tap? You can do so at Ixtapa in Carnation, just a few steps away from the Carnation Farmers Market. Throughout Snoqualmie Valley you can find their wines at several other locations, including the North Bend Bar and Grill, the Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company, Gianfranco’s, the Fall City Roadhouse, The Last Frontier, The Black Dog, and the Snoqualmie Falls Golf Course, and you can pick up more totes at The Farmhouse Market. You’ll find their wines on tap throughout the Evergreen State—from Friday Harbor to Chelan down to Walla Walla, and, of course, all around the greater Seattle area. Piccola Cellars is known for supplying the restaurant community with wine on tap in reusable, stainless steel kegs. On Saturdays and Sundays, and the third Thursday of every month, Piccola Cellars has tastings at their location in Woodinville. There, their wine comes out of taps installed in a repurposed 1861 piano—just another way that Piccola Cellars shows their environmentally friendly tendencies.
You can find all the locations where Piccola Cellars wine is on tap at www.piccolawine.com.