As many business-owners will tell you, the payment processing landscape is confusing – and expensive. They appoint a payment processing company to handle transactions from various channels, such as credit cards and debit cards, but rarely do they understand what is really going on behind the scenes. Often, they end up paying way more than the service warrants, but the costs of switching vendors can be so high that they are truly caught between a rock and a hard place.

I'll start out by admitting my bias. Northwest Cellars is my personal favorite local winery. There, I said it. And its not because the tasting room in Kirkland is a convenient, beautiful place to taste wine, relax, and chat with interesting folks; although it is all of those things. Its not because Bob Delf, the winery owner, is one hell of a guy, down to earth, knows his wine, and is a great friend.

Again - Bob is all of those things as well. Really what it comes down to is really quite simple. The wine DELIVERS. Unpretentious, flavor-full, and enjoyable on every level.