The labels on their white and rosé wines depict the beautiful flowering trees and other blooms that are plentiful during spring and summer in their neighbourhood.īut how did Finn Hill get its name? This story started in December 1903 when Ben and Hilma Reinikainen set sail from Helsinki, Finland, for America.

They named the winery after the Finn Hill neighbourhood north of Kirkland, WA where they live, and where they started the garage winery. He hopes you will think they taste fantastic, too. Rob's goal is to handcraft small lots of premium Washington wine that he thinks taste fantastic. This results in wines with elegance and power, which reflect the vineyard's distinct terroir or 'sense of place'. This small scale allows Rob to pay tremendous attention to every detail of the wine making process, and to use the best grapes and the finest French oak barrels available. Annual production started at 150 cases, but after a few years, space constraints dictated a move to the warehouse district where annual production today is less than 1,000 cases - still at the 'micro-winery' level. Inspired by his fellow classmates, many of whom were already professional winemakers, Finn Hill Winery was licensed and bonded in Rob's two-car garage on Finn Hill in September 2008.

Rob enrolled in the Washington State University enology certificate program in 2007. 'How is it that two wines made from exactly the same grapes can taste completely different?'Ĭhasing the answer to that question transformed biomedical engineer Rob Entrekin from a wine drinker into a winemaker. FINN HILL IS A SMALL FAMILY WINERY WORKING TO BRING YOU ELEGANT AND POWERFUL WINES WITH A DISTINCT 'SENSE OF PLACE' FROM THE BEST VINEYARDS IN WASHINGTON STATE.

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