May 24, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Ahh, California. By far one of the best things about Northern California has got to be one’s proximity to wine country. And for all of the “out West” things I haven’t done, I’ve taken full advantage of my wine-related opportunities.
Sonoma Valley
Again
Um, these next ones I don’t remember taking, but there they were on the camera! Must’ve been after the first winery. Or four.
I think I was trying to capture the rolling hillside idea. Instead, you get raindrops.
And traffic. Bet you don’t see that every day!
Typically I keep a couple of bottles of wine around the house. Often they aren’t consumed until I take them to someone else’s place for dinner. Now, however? It’s more like a couple of cases.
The spoils from Napa (when Mom & Dad were here).
My parents, for reasons I do not understand, actually drink — and enjoy — white wines. Typically French varietals. I turn my nose up at most of those, and wait patiently until we get to the red half of the tasting menu. Every time, Mom looks at me funny.
“What? I don’t drink whites. I’ve never liked Chardonnay,” I protest.
“If it were 1982, you’d be drinking Chardonnay (with the rest of the yuppies),” she retorts, with the obvious implication that what I profess to like depends largely on what’s popular at the time.
Eh, maybe. I actually found a couple of white wines this weekend worth remembering…a Chardonnay from Sebastiani that I didn’t hate and a Viognier from Castle that I rather enjoyed. But I still like reds better.
The take from Sonoma this weekend.
You know what I could really use these days? No, not the referral number to Alcoholics Anonymous. A wine rack!
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Mmmm…wine.
I also am not much of a white drinker, but after trying a VA Viognier a few years ago it got moved to the top of my list. I even became known as the wine connoisseur in my family (doesn’t actually mean a lot in my white zin drinking clan, but still…) when I chose a bottle of Viognier that everyone loved last summer in San Francisco! We will have to make a trip to wine country the next time I come visit!
(Look! I left a comment! Aren’t you proud?!)
May 24th, 2006 at 8:43 amThat last picture looks similar to my place now (my roommate likes it when I go to wine country), except in mine there are a few bottles of scotch thrown in.
May 24th, 2006 at 11:29 amI am proud too!
May 25th, 2006 at 2:12 pm