One of the reasons that we flew out early to San Francisco was to go to Sonoma with our friends and try out some real wineries.
I say real because the wineries in New Jersey just do not qualify as real wineries since they mostly make wine from Concord grapes. Mmmm… fruit wines are fine for … umm… the end of October-ish.
With a belly full of breakfast and food, we loaded up into our friends’ truck and headed to the Sonoma Valley where we hit two wineries before lunch time. Here are a couple of pictures where the first one was an experiment in style and architecture. The place had a really cool basement-ish type place where they had some wine tastings.
Sbragia was the second winery we went to and it was on an amazing cliff type area where we saw miles and miles of landscapes. It was absolutely gorgeous.
After lunch in a local market, we ended the tour at the St. Francis Winery where our friends have a membership. We were treated special and ended up in the back room while tasting wine with some interesting food pairings.
The highlight of that part of the stop included the port… gosh darn it… port is good.
We had a great time on a day of tremendous weather – about 73 degrees and sunny and good friends and food.
What a good first try at real wine tasting.
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