The Story Behind Upland Wineryby Todd Newhouse Snipes Mountain
was named after cattle king Ben Snipes, who was the first to
settle the Yakima Valley and who made his vast cattle business
headquarters on the south side of Snipes Mountain in the 1850's.
He chose this site because it was the highest point around and
from the top of Snipes Mountain he had a panoramic view of the
Yakima Valley and his vast herds of cattle. He also couldn’t
help but note that the mountain added a little more protection
from the elements of Mother Nature that the rest of the valley
didn’t seem to offer. In 1914, William B. Bridgman, two-time
mayor of Sunnyside and author of many of the Yakima Valley's
irrigation laws, planted table grapes on Harrison Hill.
Currently owned by the Al Newhouse family, it is now the second
oldest Cab site in the state, planted in 1964, and goes into
DeLille Cellar’s Harrison Hill bottle. In 1917 Bridgeman planted
vinifera wine grapes on Snipes Mountain. Because of the
country's prohibition laws of 1916,