Week of Wine
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.
First stop: Sapphire Hill 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.
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.
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! 🙂