Quivira Winery: Visiting a Sister (Winery)
As my wife and I are Tandem Wine Club Members — and as Quivira Winery and Tandem are related (“sister wineries”) – we decided to swing by Quivira Winery after our visit to Michel-Schlumberger – an easy five-minute drive away. As some background, my wife and I were introduced to Tandem Wines in July 2008 at a restaurant known then as...
Michel-Schlumberger Winery: Gem in Dry Creek Valley
From the Gary Farrell Winery we had some time before our next appointment so we drove into Healdsburg, had lunch at El Farolito (Mexican food) and then walked across the street for ice cream at Powell’s Sweet Shoppe. Healdsburg itself is fantastic as there are plenty of great restaurants, fantastic shopping, wine tasting opportunities and...
Gary Farrell Winery: The Wow Factor!
Wow! What an experience! Prior to our visit, I had heard that the tasting room at Gary Farrell Winery offers one of the best views overlooking the Russian River Valley and it did live up to its reputation. The winding drive up to the winery set the tone as my wife and I kept commenting on...
Schramsberg Vineyards: Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles
We booked a tasting and tour with Schramsberg Vineyards & Cellars due to its outstanding reputation for sparkling wines and our group was relatively small — about 8 people. The caves were initially hand dug by Chinese laborers in the 1870s with further expansion of the caves in the 1980s. As we entered the caves, we noticed a...
Whetstone Wine Cellars: Visit to Phoenix Ranch
Throughout my experiences in enjoying wines, Sommeliers have in many instances suggested wines that I otherwise would have never tried or experienced. Such was the case at dinner at John Ash & Company whereby the Sommelier suggested trying a wine from Whetstone Wine Cellars. He told us of Jamey Whetstone’s beginnings in the wine industry...
Farmhouse Restaurant and Failla Wine: Great Combo
Farmhouse Inn & Restaurant located just off of scenic River Road in Forestville, California is an exceptional restaurant. The drive from Sonoma took about 45 minutes and was both easy and enjoyable. The scenery in this area is just fantastic — the Russian River Valley has a special place in my heart as so many fantastic...
Return to Sonoma County: Armstrong Redwoods State Reserve
In July 2009 we returned to the Sonoma / Napa area for our 2nd year in a row — the first trip was great but this trip was even better. We arrived in Sonoma late afternoon and had made an appointment to enjoy a stone massage at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa. We...
Ferrari-Carano Winery: A “Special dessert”
Ferrari-Canano Vineyards and Winery (located in Dry Creek Valley). My wife and I had talked about going to the Sonoma County / Napa Valley California wine country for quite some time but we just never made the time to do so. It took a fund-raiser Gala event to turn that tide as one of the...
Stryker Sonoma Winery: Beautiful “room with a view”
We included Stryker Sonoma Winery on our list of wineries to visit for two reasons: (1) to taste the award-winning wines and (2) as Stryker’s design won the 2002 Architectural Design Award for Northern California from the American Institute of Architects we thought it would be great to see and experience a design that achieved...
Chez Roux: What a great dining experience
Chez Roux restaurant, a Texas restaurant located on Lake Conroe, offers a great dining experience.
Bella Vineyards and Wine Caves
Bella Vineyards & Wine Caves is located in the heart of Dry Creek Valley and the drive along West Dry Creek road offers beautiful views of various vineyards along with plenty of opportunities to visit numerous wineries, so many it becomes overwhelming. We decided to go to Bella as we had tried a bottle of...
St. Supery Winery: Tour and tasting creates great memories
St Supery Winery
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St Supery’s Chardonney was our first experience with St Supery wines and that taste brought us back to drinking Chardonney. Figuring if St. Supery could do such an outstanding job with Chardonney, we would enjoy their other wines so we joined...
