Scenes from this past week:
Last weekend was glorious. Early Saturday morning, I drove up to Healdsburg, CA with a few friends to partake in some bike-riding and wine-tasting adventures. It’s about 2 hours north of where I live and it is absolutely gorgeous. Lucky for us, the weather was great. We parked our cars by 10:15 at Wine Country Bikes and were out the door with bikes and really attractive helmets by 10:30.
Spit if you’re tasting wine. Hm. No thanks.
First stop: Sapphire Hill Winery
First Winery
We biked toward the downtown area to stop at Oakville Grocery to pick up some sandwiches and snacks to go (and by “to go,” I mean we basically ate everything 5 minutes after we bought ’em.)
Next stop – Kendall-Jackson Tasting Room, where our tastings were free – thank you 4Square! 🙂
We continued winery-hopping and biked out of the downtown area toward Seghesio Family Vineyards.
But our absolute favorite winery was the next one we went to: Alderbrook Winery. They had live music, a Valentines theme going on, cupcakes and candy all over the place, and games and hula-hoops out by the vineyard.
TicTacToe with Corks!
Hula Hoopin’
Valentines Day Tastings!
I also got these little salt and pepper shakers from Alderbrook – aren’t they so fun?!
We stayed at the winery until it was time to return the bikes. And then walked to the final winery, Hudson Street Wineries, where I ended up buying most of my loot from!
I am every winemaker’s dream. I buy all the things.
And if that wasn’t wine enough, Downtown Campbell had their Wine Walk on Wednesday.
Don’t mind the legs in the background. That’s not awkward at all.
Clearly, this is my motto this week:
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Question Time! 🙂
What do you prefer – red or white?
I used to be a white gal. But I’m now a big fan of Malbecs and Cabs!
What’s your favorite winery/vineyard?
Mine is Cupcake – Red Velvet! Affordable AND delicious!
I love this post!! As you know I would! My favs are Cabs, Pinots, and Gwertezimeners! Yummm. And yes, cupcake red velvet is among my top 3! 🙂
Can’t wait til April when we can have some together! 🙂
I’d love to go to a winery! I’ve lived in VA my whole life, yet never have gone to one… That needs to change! I’m a big fan of sweeter wines and Shiraz 🙂
Hm, I haven’t had too many glasses of Shiraz! 🙂 Any one in particular you suggest?
looks like a fun weekend! i’ve never been to a winetasting like that but i so want to. the weather looked beautiful!
It was! 🙂 It was so gorgeous, we got really lucky! 🙂
Looks gorgeous!…and fun! I am a red wine fan.. Merlot is my go-to wine. 🙂
Yum! I love when there are red wine blends – Merlot with a bit of cab! 🙂
Love this. For my bachelorette party we went to a winery and it was so much fun!!!
That sounds like my ideal bachelorette party! That…or Vegas. Two different experiences. A girl can have two, right?!
That wrap looks delishhh. I want some tiny wine bottles!
They’re salt and pepper shakers! Aren’t they adorable?!
Not sure if I could pick between red or white. I love them both! Especially whites on warm days and red on cold days.
Looks like so much fun! I want to do tastings are a winery so bad!
Hope to see you link another Wine of the Week soon! Thanks for joining! 🙂