Dear Friends,
I forgot what it’s like to be on vacation — you do something new every day and go,go,go. Today I took my Tallahassee friends Lori and her daughter Andie to wine country. And now we are all tired!
First stop was Napa, which Lori visited some years ago. She kept marveling at how it has changed — bigger, mostly. We had lunch at the ABC Bakery in Napa. which Mary Kaye and I discovered not long ago. (Once again delicious.) Then we went in search of wineries, and ended up at a place in St. Helena, recommended by a friend. It was my second “tasting” experience, although today I didn’t taste anything but water. Lori and Andie did, though, as new visitors to wine country must. That’s the way I felt a couple of weeks ago. Now I’m feeling like an old-timer. This V. Sattui tasting room is different from my first experience -- cavernous, with a deli and picnic area as well. Someone said they serve 1,000 people on Saturdays. Today the place was booming and it’s only Wednesday. Their mix of gracious grounds, wine-making displays and friendly, persistent sales and tastings ($20 and $25 for four or five tastes — can’t remember which) seems to have hit the vino sweet-spot: an adult amusement park.
And for the second act. we lolled through the famous California traffic on the way home.
What I noticed most today is how proprietary I feel about California — I cringed at any whiff of criticism and glowed at every praise.
Love,
k
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| This room smells like wine ... or raisins |
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| Across the fence from the tasting room |
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