Two Vintners

Two Vintners was founded in 2007. During his second vintage as assistant winemaker for Covington Cellars, Morgan Lee asked to make a Merlot and a Syrah, varieties that David and Cindy Lawson did not have in their Covington portfolio. The Lawsons answered that those varieties did not fit the Covington Cellars story, but that they would invest in Lee starting his own brand, with full artistic control. The name Two Vintners came from the collaboration between Lee and the Lawsons, and Lee had no winemaking education when the brand launched. The Lawsons had started Covington Cellars in 2002. The first Two Vintners vintage, 2007, comprised three wines: a Syrah, a Merlot and a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah named Lola, after Lee's black Labrador, then the winery mascot.

• 2007: Two Vintners founded by Morgan Lee with David and Cindy Lawson of Covington Cellars, who invested in the new brand.
• First vintage (2007): Syrah, Merlot and Lola, a Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah blend.
• Ownership: Morgan Lee is co-owner; Cindy and David Lawson are proprietors.

As listed on the winery's site in October 2026, Morgan Lee is head winemaker and co-owner, leads all wine production for both Covington Cellars and Two Vintners, and directs the creative vision behind Two Vintners. Cindy and David Lawson are proprietors. Joe Thornley is assistant winemaker; he graduated from the WSU Viticulture and Enology program in 2012. Jarad Bivins is cellar manager and joined the industry full-time in 2021. Lee was raised near Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, and traces his passion for winemaking to a wine-appreciation class taught by Purdue enology professor Richard Vine. His view that Syrah and Merlot were the best wines Washington had to offer dates from his time at Columbia Crest in 2006, and that idea was the basis for the beginnings of Two Vintners.

• Head winemaker and co-owner: Morgan Lee.
• Proprietors: Cindy and David Lawson.
• Assistant winemaker: Joe Thornley; cellar manager: Jarad Bivins.

The winery's tech sheets name the vineyards behind each wine. Olsen and Boushey, both in the Yakima Valley, have always been the core of the Columbia Valley Grenache. The 2023 Columbia Valley Syrah came predominantly from May's Discovery, Pepper Bridge, Boushey and Dineen. The 2023 Legit Cabernet Sauvignon drew on May's Discovery, Dineen, Pollard, StoneTree, Pepper Bridge, Yellow Jacket, Boushey and Olsen vineyards, and the 2023 Merlot's sources included May's Discovery (Horse Heaven Hills), Boushey (Yakima Valley), Dineen and Pollard (Rattlesnake Hills) and Summit View (Walla Walla). The 2025 Grenache Blanc came from Boushey, Olsen, Two Mountain and Corfu vineyards. Some Days Are Stones comes from Stoney Vine and Stones Speak vineyards in the Rocks District of Milton-Freewater, within the Walla Walla Valley. Zinfandel first came from StoneTree Vineyard in 2008, when the fruit was offered as a way to start a relationship with the vineyard. In 2018 the winery began blending Grenache Blanc fruit from Weather Eye Vineyard on Red Mountain, and in 2019 it made a 100% Weather Eye Grenache Blanc.

• Yakima Valley core: Olsen and Boushey.
• Rocks District of Milton-Freewater: Stoney Vine and Stones Speak (Some Days Are Stones).
• Horse Heaven Hills: May's Discovery (Sal Cabernet Sauvignon, Some Days Are Diamonds).
• StoneTree Vineyard: Zinfandel since 2008; Weather Eye Vineyard (Red Mountain): Grenache Blanc from 2018.

The winery calls its Columbia Valley Syrah 'really the wine that ‘made’ Two Vintners.' The 2023 was 97% Syrah, 2% Roussanne and 1% Viognier; 1,490 cases were made. A single-vineyard Syrah series bottles small, barrel-select parcels, each fermented and aged identically: Some Days Are Stones (Stoney Vine and Stones Speak), Some Days Are Diamonds (May's Discovery Vineyard in the Horse Heaven Hills, inspired by the Syrahs of Cornas) and The Waiting List (Boushey Vineyard, named for the seven years it took to get the fruit). Zinfandel entered the lineup in 2008. Make Haste began as an accident in 2009, when Lee mistakenly pumped two barrels of Syrah into a Sauvignon Blanc; the name stuck, and the wine is now a varietal Cinsault from Olsen Vineyard, where the winery had started making Cinsault in 2007. Grenache Blanc followed in 2010 with fruit from Dick Boushey and is always blended with Roussanne; the 2025 was 89% Grenache Blanc and 11% Roussanne. Legit, the first Two Vintners Cabernet Sauvignon, was bottled in 2012, and the 2023 was 75% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Merlot, 6% Petite Sirah, 5% Cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot. Grenache entered the lineup in 2015; the 2023 was 90% Grenache and 10% Syrah. Several wines are named for Lee's family: Oliver, a blend of Syrah, Petite Sirah and Grenache that debuted with the 2009 vintage, after his son; Sal, a Cabernet Sauvignon from May's Discovery Vineyard that debuted with the 2012 vintage, after his wife, Sally; Claire, a Boushey Vineyard Grenache, after his daughter, born in 2015; and Alice, a Merlot whose label carries no mention of Merlot. OG is a Gewürztraminer from a north-facing slope at Olsen Vineyards in the Yakima Valley, fermented on its skins; Lee began making it in 2012, and Spanish clay tinajas have been used since the 2016 vintage. To the winery's knowledge, OG was the first orange wine produced in Washington State. A sparkling wine was blended and dosed by Two Vintners and bottled, aged and riddled by Treveri, a Yakima Valley sparkling wine house. With the Purdue for Life Foundation, Two Vintners makes a Syrah for Purdue wine lovers that the winery calls 'the Mall'; the 2023 is its second vintage, 100 cases, with a label by Lee's mother, Lynn Lee. In Wine Spectator, Harvey Steiman included the 2013 Some Days Are Stones Stoney Vine Vineyard Syrah in his Recommended Wines From Washington.

• Columbia Valley Syrah: 2023 is 97% Syrah, 2% Roussanne and 1% Viognier, 1,490 cases.
• Single-vineyard Syrahs: Some Days Are Stones, Some Days Are Diamonds and The Waiting List.
• Grenache Blanc (from 2010, always with Roussanne), Grenache (from 2015), Claire Grenache and Make Haste Cinsault (Olsen Vineyard).
• Legit Cabernet Sauvignon (first bottled 2012), Sal Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Oliver, Lola, Alice and Zinfandel (from 2008).
• OG skin-fermented Gewürztraminer and Yo Momma Rosé, a Rosé of Zinfandel.

Tech sheets for the Syrahs, the Grenache and Make Haste record native-yeast fermentation with a share of whole clusters and aging in French oak 500-liter puncheons: 60% whole clusters and 18 months in 40% new oak for the 2023 Columbia Valley Syrah, 60% whole clusters and 18 months in 50% new oak for the 2022 Some Days Are Stones and Some Days Are Diamonds, 30% whole clusters and 15 months in 30% new oak for the 2023 Grenache, and 62% whole clusters and 15 months in neutral oak for the 2023 Make Haste. The 2022 The Waiting List was foot-trodden for one week and bottled unfiltered. For Make Haste, higher than normal 2022 yields allowed stem trials, and whole-cluster inclusion rose from the usual 25-30% to 62%, an approach kept in 2023. The 2025 Grenache Blanc was whole-cluster pressed and aged 9 months in French oak, 25% new. The winery's site says Lee aims to keep the wines 'beautiful, delicious, and accessible to everyone,' and Lee has said his aim is to keep Two Vintners 'welcoming, unpretentious and fun.'

• Native yeast and partial whole-cluster fermentation for the Syrahs, Grenache and Make Haste: 30% (2023 Grenache) to 62% (2023 Make Haste).
• Aging in French oak 500-liter puncheons, 40% to 50% new for the Syrahs.
• OG: 8 weeks of skin contact in Spanish tinajas (2024 vintage).

Two Vintners has two tasting rooms, 10 minutes apart. The Woodinville tasting room, at 18576 142nd Ave NE, offers a seated tasting of a seasonally curated flight of 4 wines lasting about 60 minutes, and hosts Two Funk Friday on Friday evenings, with happy hour from 4 to 8 pm and live music, walk-in only. The Maltby tasting room, at 9206 200th St SE, C1, Snohomish, sits in the winery's production facility at The Vault and also pours a flight of 4 wines. The wine club is called Two Funk Nation.

• Woodinville: 18576 142nd Ave NE; seated flight of 4 wines, about 60 minutes.
• Maltby: The Vault, 9206 200th St SE, C1, Snohomish, in the production facility.
• Wine club: Two Funk Nation.

Primary sources (producer's own site): https://www.twovintners.com/, https://www.twovintners.com/about, https://www.twovintners.com/juice-stories, https://www.twovintners.com/visit, https://www.twovintners.com/trade, https://www.twovintners.com/purdue-collaboration, and the winery's tech sheets (PDF) linked from its trade page: 2023 Syrah, 2022 Some Days Are Stones, 2022 Some Days Are Diamonds, 2022 The Waiting List, 2025 Grenache Blanc, 2023 Legit, 2023 Make Haste, 2023 Grenache, 2024 OG and 2023 Merlot (https://www.twovintners.com/s/). Secondary sources: Washington State Wine Commission winery listings (https://www.washingtonwine.org/location/two-vintners-tasting-room/, https://www.washingtonwine.org/location/two-vintners-at-the-vault/) and Wine Spectator, Harvey Steiman's Recommended Wines From Washington (http://assets.winespectator.com/wso/pdf/123116Washington.pdf). Last verified 2026-10-18. Where the producer's site and a secondary source disagree, the producer's site governs.