For wine aficionados who are accustomed to knowing all their whites and reds, an upcoming tasting event may take them by surprise.

Reservations are still being accepted for the Greenbank Farm Wine Shop’s “Not the Usual Suspects” event 6-8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 1. Participants are invited to try 10 unique wines. The sample pours will amount to about two glasses of wine, and food will be provided by neighboring Old Spots Bistro. Each ticket costs $35.

With more than 10,000 grapes varieties in the world, there’s bound to be a lot of unknowns out there.

“The varietals that grow here in Washington state most people know, and even the ones that are in France, most people know,” Greenbank Farm Wine Shop owner Hollie Swanson said. “Cabernet, Chardonnay, that sort of thing. These are going to be varietals that people haven’t heard of before, typically. It will be fun for them to try something new that just kind of expands their palate.”

Though Swanson is still determining what will be served, she said there will be an even selection between red, white, sparkling and dessert wines, with possibly a rosé in the mix. Expect many of them to be Italian – Swanson has Italian heritage and took a trip there a few years ago.

The Greenbank Farm has a long history of wine, starting with the varietals made from the farm’s prolific crop of loganberries, which were the largest in the nation. Loganberry wine is still produced exclusively for Greenbank Farm Wine Shop at an off-site location.

“I tell people, the loganberry wine is what put this farm on the map and made people aware of it,” Swanson said, crediting it for helping save the Greenbank Farm from development in 1997.

The farm was once owned by Chateau Ste. Michelle. Swanson came to own the wine shop, in its current iteration, nine years ago.

“It’s been instrumental in getting my life back on track,” she said.

For more information about the tasting event or to reserve your spot, visit greenbank-farm-wine-shop.square.site.

(Photo by David Welton) Greenbank Farm Wine Shop employee Cathy Kind pours some loganberry wine.