Flowers Winery , Alexander Valley Vineyards and Seghesio Vineyards were our tastings for today. Since you shouldn’t drink wine on an empty stomach we had to get pastries and lattes at Quail and Condor. Today we brought them back to eat outside at our AirBnB. It’s such a beautiful, peaceful way to start the morning. We found another favorite pastry – Kouign Amman. It’s like a sweet, caramel lay croissant -subtlety sweet, just a little crunchy. I am not explaining it very well! Trust me when I say it was delicious.
Flowers was a beautiful winery. Our tasting was outside under a big shade tree and umbrellas. Although it was in the 90’s, the cool breeze and shade made it a perfect temperature. Our tasting was paired with small bites that were delicious. Two of them really enchanted the wine and the 3rd one was yummy but didn’t make the wine better or worse.
Driving through California wine country is one of my favorite places. Nothing beats the back roads, with vineyards on either side and a canopy of trees overhead. We have fun driving past the signs for tasting rooms, wineries or vineyards and recognizing familiar names of wines we’ve had, or ones we want to try.
Our tasting at Alexander Valley was the old-fashioned tasting at the wine bar. We like their cab sav from Total Wine so wanted to try some their reserve wines.
Our last tasting was out on another beautiful patio. All of the outdoors seating areas may be a result of COVID and the need to socially distance. Whatever the reason, it has been a fun and relaxing way to taste wine and the weather has been spectacular. (FYI… we are making good use of the spit buckets, in case anyone was wondering )
Almost forget… we stopped at Coppola . Not for the wine or food. We just walked around to see the movie memorabilia
Halfway Round the Planet, Part 2 