(Wines&Vines) - Pending changes on land-use regulations in King County, Wash., are mobilizing wineries outside Seattle to make sure the new rules reflect tasting room realities. 

A staff report that King County’s executives received earlier this summer will aim to regulate vintners operating in unincorporated parts of the county. The current rules for wineries operating on protected farm land and rural residential acreage were adopted in the mid-2000s and haven’t kept pace with changes since the state began allowing wineries to have off-site tasting rooms in 2005.