Knowledge is Everything
Hi Ho Everyone! I wanted to tell you about my visit to Benziger Family Winery that included a private tour and dinner in their wine cave for our group of 25 and to make it interesting – I don’t drink wine. First off, Benziger’s is located in beautiful Glen Ellen up on a hill yet
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Top Sonoma County Things To Do – Translation, No Wine
I know there are some of you out there who wonder what my top things to do in Sonoma County are that don’t have to do with wine and are mostly free. Welllll, thanks for asking because I’d love to tell you what my list is and you know what, just to be fair, let
... more »Sowing Your Seeds II
hi ho everyone, in a previous post (Sowing Your Seeds) I hearlded the fact that the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed company had bought an old unused bank building in downtown Petaluma and opened it last year as their only western outpost for heirloom seeds of all kinds. Well the NYT wrote a great little human interest
... more »Sonoma Wine and Food
This past Sunday in the Chron’s Food & Wine section was a special tabbed section called “Wine Country” with emphasis on the town of Sonoma. Now, I know some of you are tired of reading about or listening to what are the best wineries blah, blah, blah. But hey, you gotta admit there are new wineries
... more »Something to Ponder
“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” H. Belloc, writer/historian Can you tell me, have you wandered or have you travelled, where and why
... more »Local Brewery in Petaluma
I’ve talked about Lagunitas Brewery before, it’s just right down the street from the Quality Inn. But last week the NY Times had an article on domestically made pale ales and Lagunitas was rated – not at the top but it got on the list. Here’s the link:http://nyti.ms/93YmDD
... more »Wine Not
Oh I think I made a joke, get it – whine not. What I’m trying to say is that both our hotels are in the wine country of Sonoma County, Northern CA, but there is a whole lot of other non-winery, family, group, couple, dog kind of stuff to do. If you just came from one
... more »Stomp!
Well not exactly stomp, but stroll, saunter, maybe even run, on a self-guided tour through four different wineries. Every wanted to walk among the vines and learn about what it takes to get those puppies growing and producing the grapes. Right now there are four participating wineries, Mantanzas Creek, Paradise Ridge, Balletto Vineyards and Mauritson Winery
... more »I Gotta Good Jook to Tell
My weak attempt at a little Chinese humor. Jook is actually rice porridge, maybe you remember what Oliver Twist asked for more of ? Unfortunately because of that memory association – it was a great movie musical though - rice porridge has a terrible reputation. Anyway, the reason I bring jook up is because at our Fairfield Inn
... more »Your cup of Tea
On Easter weekend, we took my mother in-law on Saturday to Macy’s on Union Square in SF to view their annual spring flower show. The flower arrangements were lush and colorful and an uplifting symbol to entering spring. Afterward, we mosied over to Grant Ave and walked into Chinatown where my brother in-law wanted to
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