From Redhook Beer to DeLille Wine

This landmark building has poured two very different drinks. In nineteen ninety four, Redhook, one of the pioneers of the American craft beer revival, opened a large brewery here, twenty miles east of Seattle, complete with a popular beer hall called the Forecasters Public House. It was a huge step up in scale.

The Woodinville plant was a major production brewery, and it helped carry beers like Extra Special Bitter and Ballard Bitter to national fame just as craft beer was taking off. But the brewing business consolidated, and Redhook closed the Woodinville brewery in two thousand seventeen, leaving the big timber and brick building empty. Enter DeLille Cellars.

DeLille was founded back in nineteen ninety two by Jay Soloff, winemaker Chris Upchurch, and Charles and Greg Lill, making it one of Woodinville's earliest and most respected wineries. In two thousand nineteen, DeLille moved its entire production and tasting operation into the old Redhook home and reopened it as Hollywood Station, adding private tasting rooms, a library of older vintages, and a rooftop deck. Same walls, new craft, a smooth handoff from beer to wine.