Specialties
Family owned and operated, Terra Blanca Winery is a boutique winery and estate vineyard on Red Mountain. Keith and ReNae Pilgrim started Terra Blanca Winery and Estate Vineyard on Red Mountain in eastern Washington, in 1993. Latin for "white earth," Terra Blanca signifies the white carbonate-rich soils in its estate vineyard. The high-mineral, high-carbonate soils, along with the warm, dry and breezy southwest exposure allows Terra Blanca's vineyard to produce concentrated grapes with a defined sense of place.
The new Spokane Tasting Room is an extension of the Red Mountain winery and production facility for our wine loving friends in Eastern Washington.
History
Established in 1992.
Keith and ReNae Pilgrim started Terra Blanca Winery and Estate Vineyard in 1992 with the purchase of 300 acres on an arid, treeless slope called Red Mountain.
Keith, a University of California, Davis-trained geologist and student of viticulture and oenology, set about clearing the land by hand, drilling wells and planting vines. ReNae, who studied accountancy, would make the long treks from the their home in Redmond, Washington each weekend to battle the wind, heat and snakes and learned to fit irrigation pipes.
Together, they figured out how to grow grapes, make wine, sell wine and stay married. In 2017 we expanded to our first satellite tasting room in downtown Spokane. Come and join us in the Cork District!
Meet the Business Owner: Keith and ReNae P.
Keith grew up in Napa and as a child spent many happy hours playing in the wine caves at wineries such as Beringer. These formative days may have been the impetus for him to study both geology and fermentation sciences and viticulture at University of California, Davis. After many years of international travel as a consulting geologist, he fulfilled a life-long dream of becoming a winemaker. As a winelover, the ability to combine wine and his love of the outdoors and rocks in geology was the perfect combination.
ReNae Pilgrim is responsible for the hospitality portion of the winery in addition to overseeing finance. ReNae is an avid outdoorswoman who adores camping, hiking and boating with her family. She also craves time (and with two young children, it's a rarity) to be curled up with a good book. After a childhood in Wyoming, ReNae studied accounting and started her career.