A Full Day of Wining!

Wednesday, July3, 2019, Healdsburg, California--A full day yesterday of wine tasting at Local, a tasting room for many wineries in Geyserville about 10 miles north of here.  Dixon, JR, David and the two of us drove up there to this old-fashioned country town where the gentrifiers appear not to be too active.
  

Wineries

Patrick, the host, led us through about forty different wines from 15 or so wineries.   We put together a varied case which will be shipped later this month once we get home.  We ended up enjoying the company of a local winery owner and his daughter.  She had been involved with Cow Girl Creamery which had a store on F Street in Washington many years ago.  We had met the Cow Girls at Marian Burros' home for a tasting of their cheeses.  We are looking forward to Dick Handel's sagrantino wine--it grows in Umbria and on five acres in California.  Those are its only homes!

Lunch at Diavolo's next door to the tasting room began with a Spanish rosé cava that a local winery imports, lovely pink fizz, then on to varied meals as pizza with cheeses for JR and pork belly for David,  duck paté and aspargus salad for Dixon, shrimp soup and beet salad for Ben and tripe alla fiorentno for John.  Sitting under the arbor with washing lines hanging around and we could have been in Sicily.

Much political talk, and opinions on 4 July tomorrow in DC.  

We decided on a light dinner, so we picked up lox, brown bread, herring, greens and tomatoes for a really lovely evening on the veranda.   We began with a rosata from Acorn Winery, run by friends Beth and Bill just south of here, then to a Davis pinot noir  then Davis Rhône mix and finally to a port from a Napa winery.  

Today we are off to Oregon,  JR and Dixon return to SF.