Back in October we went to Napa with friends. I pretty much love everything about Napa. The weather is fabulous! We flew into Oakland on a Wednesday afternoon & headed to Napa. Thursday we started with a tasting at Cakebread.
All the wineries have really pretty landscaping.
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V Sattui was next. We'd never been there before & the wine was really good. Of course they don't sell it in stores. We bought a few bottles & had it shipped home. Someone asked me what we learned on this trip. My response was - We like $150 wines better than $50 wine. There really is a difference. We did not buy the $150 bottle. The guy that did our tasting advised us to buy a less expensive bottle & age it so that's what we did. We now have a wine rack in the closet because of the whole dry, dark storage thing.
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We spent a lot of time at V Sattui
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They have a little deli at the winery so we had lunch.
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It was really good & the grounds are pretty with picnic tables all around.
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We went to Grgich the last time we were in Napa & they had grape stomping so we stopped again since I had friends to stomp with.
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A real live Lucy & Ethel moment.
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We stopped at Silver Oak.
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Friday morning Dean & I were on our own while the rest of the group went hiking at Muir Woods. We did that the last trip.
Our first stop was the castle - Castello Di Amorosa
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So pretty!
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Everything was like you'd expect in a castle - big & ornate! I loved it.
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This room can be rented out for a party. It holds 150 people. I can't imagine what they charge for that.
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There were peacocks walking around. I tried to get him to open his plume or whatever you call all the big feathers but he wasn't interested in cooperating.
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I was trying to get us in the picture with the castle in the background.
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Duckhorn is one of my favorite wines & we didn't make here last trip. The sign says by appointment only but we walked in with no problem. We only did a tasting & not a tour.
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You get to taste a lot of wine.
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I really liked Miner's wine. We ran into some people here from Louisiana & we have mutual friends. It doesn't matter where you go if you have on an LSU shirt you're going to meet up with someone.
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Beautiful views
Later we met up with our friends for a tasting at Domaine Carneros.
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Korie & Randy were in San Francisco for the week so they met us.
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It was a great trip & I'm ready to go back.
Toodles!