Nowhere was that more apparent than in Prosser, where elaborate winery tasting rooms built over the past five years are not only attracting more visitors, but also more businesses to this quaint, picturesque town of 5,000.
"It's driven restaurant and hotel growth, and the economic growth is good -- it drives the sales tax," said Mayor Paul Warden, a former city councilman who took the reins at city hall in January. "We had three wineries for years and years. Then six. Now there's 12."
