Traveling to Sonoma for a little R&R

ken@winexperience.com ("Ken") — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:30:12 GMT

September 10 I’m so glad we’re doing it right – picking a couple of wineries a day at most, and enjoying them rather than rushing from one to another and trying to keep track of what we’ve tasted. We drove back “over the hill” to Chateau Montelena. We had recalled in the car that Chateau Montelena was the winery that sent a few shockwaves to the “other” country with the red, white, and blue flag when, in 1976, their chardonnay won first place in a major world tasting. Denise was waiting. The neat thing about this tasting was the opportunity to walk to the garden with our glasses. Down the steps from the chateau and past the bocce ball court there’s a lake … and an island with striking red bogotas centered on it. Beauty in its own right and a photo op, too. What’s really exciting is looking over ...

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Traveling to Sonoma for a little R&R