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Molly and I went out to northern California for a wedding
the weekend of the 4th of October in San Francisco. As long as
we were going out there, given our passion for wine, we decided
to make a separate trip a few days earlier to wine country. I
used to live in San Jose in '98/'99 so we had been to Napa a few
times before. But it had always been for the day and we needed
to drive back to San Jose the same day. This time we elected to
devote three days to wine country and stay there overnight.
We arrived in San Francisco around noon on Wednesday, Oct
1st. It did not take us long to get to Sonoma, and then to our first
winery visit. As we had been to Napa several times, we decided to
devote two days to Sonoma, and meet up with some friends who live
in the bay area on Friday in Napa. Most of the wineries we visited
during our time in Sonoma and Napa were planned ahead on a list we
had with their hours and many maps of wine country. We didn't have
appointments for any of our visits, which in the case of a few wineries
led to complications. We stayed in Santa Rosa the
entire time we were in wine country. Our stops on Wednesday Oct 1st were
in the following order. The winery names are links to their websites,
if they have one.
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I would not visit Ravenswood again. Their wines were not bad, but
the treatment by the rude guy at the counter didn't add anything positive
to our experience. We were treated royally at Sebastiani, Blackstone, and
Buena Vista. I didn't care for the BV wines, but it was still a beautiful
place to visit. Ledson was very busy when we were there, but I wouldn't
say were treated as royally as at the other wineries. Not to say we
were treated badly at all though.
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Sebastiani
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Buena Vista
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Buena Vista historical plaque
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Buena Vista tasting building
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Blackstone
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Ledson
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