Jeff and I headed to CA on Sunday for a QUICK getaway. It is our 20th wedding anniversary in June and we went to Napa on our honeymoon so decided it was time to return. We flew into Santa Rosa and drove to Sonoma, stayed at the Fairmont Mission Inn & Spa for a couple of nights.
The whirlwind tour included -
Ledson Winery - beautiful castle and my favorite wine of the trip
Kunde Winery - great tour of caves built into the hillside for wine barrel storage
(warning - to much wine tasting can make you light headed--I'm just saying)
The Girl & the Fig Restaurant - great French restaurant, pleasant atmostphere, good food.
Garden Court - small cafe with awesome breakfast menu (yummy honey bun french toast)
Figone's Olive Oil Co. - serveral olive oils to taste, we purchased an orange and lemon flavor- it is sooo good!
Chateau St. Jean Winery - Beautiful gardens - we did not wine taste here.
Kendall-Jackson Wine Center - very large, impressive wine center. They just introduced "Avani Chardonnay", it is a light crisp wine, great for summer.
Rodney Strong Winery - we fell in love with this wine at a
wine maker's dinner at Whistler during Cornucopia so had to stop here, we but did not taste, just a looked around at the tasting room and toured the different wine storage areas.
Castello di Amorosa - a castle winery in Napa valley - very impressive!!!
Wine Spector Greystone Restaurant at the Napa Culinary Institute - interesting to watch food prep and had a great lunch here.
Black Stallion Winery - the newest winery in Napa, it was beauiful and the wine tasting was good.
Back to the hotel for afternoon wine tasting courtesey of VJB Vineyard - again one of my favorite wines of the trip
Lasalete Restaurant - highly recommend by our friends, the food was delicious, I would return to this gem. Loved the "Trio of Chocolate" dessert.
YES, we did all this in less than 48 hours, a lot of driving, tasting, eating and even relaxing in the evening - a great getaway!
4 comments:
Ive always wanted to go there! It looks amazing:) Nice that you two got a quick trip.
Everything looks so pretty. The wine country is on my list!
I'm glad you had a nice time celebrating 20 years.
I'm thinking you must have hit a winery every 2 hours to fit those all in! Reminds me of our little trip to E. Wash. Can't wait for our next adventure - and yes - there will be plenty of wining!!
Wow Kathi!!! I showed Troy your trip and I'd like for us to walk exactly in your footsteps. How amazing!! You certainly did see and do a lot in a short time. We went to Sonoma years ago and I'd live to go back. Thanks for sharing!
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