I figured that blogger would still let me post to my blog since it uses FTP. So here I am writing this when I know no one can read, so that you'll have fodder when Jillako.com is back in time for my birthday!! Sorry Sudhish, can't host your audio file for the obvious reason!
We had a really lazy Thanksgiving weekend, we didn't get out of bed till mid-morning for anything. Not for $100 5 Mega pixel cameras, not for $4 DVDs, not for beautiful winter sunrises, not for more oh-so-zinful wine! ;) You can say we are well rested!
What we did do was play Monopoly (the same as the game 'Trade' in India), Lord Of The Rings shtyle with Ranjit and Archana. It was fun even though I didn't win. Ranjit rode his newbie luck all the way.
On Saturday we made the long trip to Healdsburg, 2 hours north of where we are. It is in Sonoma County and a hotspot for Zinfandel growers. We took neighbour Darrell along for the ride, he is also a Zin lover. We only got to visit 3 wineries in famed Dry Creek Valley but it was absolutely worth it. The place was beautiful with the vineyards showing off fantastic fall colours. There were grapes planted everywhere you turned, just beautiful. We visited Yoakim Bridge, Bella and Preston.
All the wineries we visited were small, had a handful of wines that were almost exclusively red, dominated by Zinfandel and Syrah. We liked Bella the best because of the wonderful location, tasting in a cave, and wonderful wines. Another bonus, tasting was free. The other 2 charged. Preston had a great location too, with nice grounds that had picnic tables, a little organic garden and fresh baked bread made right there (sold out by the time we got there though). However the wine we felt was mediocre, especially compared to the others' stellar ones.
It was a busy day for the wineries and we felt it would be better to visit at a quieter time and we plan to do so, the single road that we traversed had 30+ wineries so there is plenty to check out. We forgot to take our camera along so I will try to find some on flickr.
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