Port Angeles, WA Winemaker Sara Gagnon ’05

What says “Evergreen” more than  the life-path of Sara Gagnon ’05?
Entrepreneur: owner of and winemaker for Harbinger
Winery and co-owner of Adventures Through Kayaking.
Location: A few hours north of Evergreen on Highway 101 in the rainforest of the Olympic Peninsula (or, more prosaically, near Port Angeles), where she lives life exactly as her passion directs.

Tour guide Sara shares the wonders of the Peninsula with visitors via kayak, mountain bike, raft and paddleboard in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, on Lake Crescent and along the riverways.

As a vintner, she creates award-winning wines with locally sourced grapes and a reverent, fine-art approach:

“While very labor intensive, we at Harbinger firmly believe that by utilizing a hands on approach we are able to attain a much more individualized and expressive wine. With our reds we use no filtration or fining methods with the intention of leaving as much of the wines’ true character where it belongs …We focus on Washington-grown fruit only  … We also pick local fruit and berries to create our highly-acclaimed “Bliss” wines.”

Here’s a bit of Sara’s story in her own voice.

If you are planning a trip to the Olympic Peninsula, be sure to meet Sara and add her to your Greener network of friends.