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Field Notes · Wine
The tasting room is nice. The lawn outside it is usually nicer. So is the picnic table at the end of the row, the beach you drove to afterwards, and the tailgate in the car park with the view nobody inside can see.
The trouble is that wine is the least forgiving thing you can take outside. Glasses tip on grass. Bottles roll around the bottom of a tote. The cheese ends up on your lap and the white ends up warm. None of that is the wine's fault. It is a surface problem.
Most picnic advice is about what to bring. Very little of it is about where any of it goes once you get there.
An outdoor tasting needs three things: somewhere flat to pour, somewhere to set a glass down without it tipping, and a bottle that is still cold when you open it.
A blanket gives you none of those. A wine tote solves the carrying and stops there. A folding table is one more thing to carry from the car. That is the gap the Workspace was built to close: the bag carries the bottle, the glasses, the board and the knife, then folds out into the surface you pour on.
The cold-bottle trick: freeze the ice pack the night before and slide it into the sleeve of the Wet Dry 100 on the way out the door. It is insulated and takes a 750ml bottle, so the white is still cold an hour later on the lawn.
A picnic table, a bench, a level patch of lawn. No flat ground at all? Hang the bag. The straps are built in, so it hangs off a tailgate or a bed rack at standing height.
Unzip and fold the bamboo out to 12″ × 18″. That is your pouring surface and your serving board, and it doesn't wobble when you lean on it.
The bottle panel holds them upright in the bag on the way in and upright on the table once you are there. Nothing rolls, nothing leaks into the bottom of a tote.
Cheese and bread go straight onto the bamboo. Olives, nuts and spreads come out of sealed Stash jars. The cheese knife comes off the panel, not out of the bottom of the bag.
Everything goes back where it came from. Fold, zip, and it goes on your back for the walk to the car.
A good outdoor board is mostly about what survives the trip. Here is what we pack and where it rides:
Vineyard lawns. It is often a walk from the car park to the spot you actually want. The shoulder strap comes with the bag, and backpack straps make the longer walks easy.
Tailgates. Hang it off the back and the surface lands at standing height. Two MOLLE-compatible flat-hook straps come in the box, so there is no drilling and no rack required.
Barrel rooms, beaches, boat decks, concert lawns. Anywhere flat. The bag is the table, so there is no second thing to carry in.
Ask first: plenty of wineries welcome a picnic on the lawn with a bottle bought there, but many don't allow outside wine. A quick question at the tasting room door saves an awkward conversation later.
The wine setup isn't a separate product. It is the Workspace Camp Kitchen with the bottle panel, which is how that bag already ships. The same bag cooks dinner the same weekend.
Want the cooler and dry storage as well? The Camp Collection is the bag with them already nested in the panels. The whole kit, accessory by accessory, is on our wine tasting setup page.
Yes. The bamboo surface locks out flat and is held by the bag's frame rather than propped, so it takes a bottle and a couple of glasses without wobbling. On a picnic table or a tailgate it is as steady as the thing it is sitting on.
With the Wet Dry 100, yes. It is insulated, takes a 750ml bottle and has a sleeve for an ice pack. The Cold Cube handles the cheese and the cans.
Yes. It hangs off a tailgate, a bed rack or factory roof rails at standing height, with no drilling and no rack required.
Pour one outside, somewhere better than the tasting room, with the glasses standing up and the bottle still cold. You will start planning the next one on the drive home.
Designed and prototyped in White Salmon, Washington, in the middle of Columbia Gorge wine country.
One bag with a fold-out work surface. Set it down on a table, or hang it off the tailgate — coffee at six, dinner at dusk.
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