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Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Napa Valley, CA
Napa Valley is the first wine country we have visited and perhaps the best in the US from what we hear. The entire area is lush and on the day of our visit we could not have asked for better weather. We had a merry group of Amol, Wrena, Ameya and Anant with the 2 of us. Amol was an awesome host and drove us all over California in his CR-V. We visited two wineries in Napa Valley: Domaine Chandon and Rutherford Hill. We took the conventional wine tour and followed it with a $9.99 sparkling wine tasting treat and pocketed the lovely flutes as well. Domaine Chandon was a wonderful place and everyone seems to take great pride in what they are doing. And the room with the huge tanks was mindboggling and looked like a bunch of ICBMs in some secret underground military base!
We spent the afternoon at Rutherford Hill and ate lunch there. We had seen "Sideways" only a few months earlier and we have both always preferred wine to most of the other reasonably priced options out there (beer chiefly) so this was a very nice visit! Only when we returned Amol surprised us with Bailey's Irish Creme which was simply outstanding and we also had some sparkling Asti (wine) which was nice for my sweet tooth. I don't think I ever had so much to drink in one day!
A fantastic trip to Napa Valley thanks to the Sapatnekars!
We spent the afternoon at Rutherford Hill and ate lunch there. We had seen "Sideways" only a few months earlier and we have both always preferred wine to most of the other reasonably priced options out there (beer chiefly) so this was a very nice visit! Only when we returned Amol surprised us with Bailey's Irish Creme which was simply outstanding and we also had some sparkling Asti (wine) which was nice for my sweet tooth. I don't think I ever had so much to drink in one day!
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