Wine tasting tour

A few of us went wine tasting this weekend up in Napa Valley. California is quite famous for its wide variety of wines produced, and Napa Valley is the biggest region of wineries in Northern California.

There are tons of wineries located in this county. Unfortunately we only had time to visit a very few of them. Almost all the wineries have wine tasting sessions, a tour through their vineyard and processing plant, and some sort of shop to get you to fork out a little more cash. We were mainly interested in the wine tastings. There are some (a selected few) that offer FREE tastings of all their wines, but most charge ~$5 - $15 for their selection.

The wineries we visited were V. Sattui, Beringer, and Robert Mondavi. Sattui offered free tasting which was awesome. Their wine wasn't bad at all, as a matter of fact, I bought a bottle of the Rosé, which tastes ... strawberry-ish. I paid $5 for Beringer's offering, but their service made the difference. I learned quite a few things about wine today, that I couldn't have just by watching Sideways or visiting the local store. White wine tastes great just by itself, but most of the red wine were too thick or heavy solo, they definitely need food to go with. So next time you need help with a sauvignon blanc, I just might be able to help ya out.

Afterwards, we drove back to the city (San Fran) to have dinner on the pier and went to see some Indie bands, that I don't remember, at Café du Nord. I posted some of my pictures online.