Well it has taken me another week to manage write of one week of tours, to add the last day, day five!
I just got back from the Limo show in Vegas and have a day off today.
I picked up a couple from Phoenix at the World Mark in Windsor. They told me they had a list of wineries they wanted to visit as they had free tasting tickets. They were very happy to be here tasting and had not had too much experience with wines. They were complete opposites as far as their wine appreciation. He liked big reds and she sweet whites! She was very nice and announced she liked free tasting tickets because she was cheap but also because she had extras, she enjoyed giving them to people along the way so they too could taste for free!
We headed off north to Geyserville and stopped at Geyser Peak which was started long ago by Henry Trione, a local legend for his business success. 15 years ago he sold it to corporate America . It produces some widely distributed wines and is best known for it’s Cabernet. Next stop was Mosaic, a winery which is more boutique in size and nature. The owners here are very hands on and the tasting room is adorned with the art of one of the partners wives. Her art is truly beautiful and completely unique. This places makes some good and reasonably priced wines. The clients liked the Sangiovese and purchased several bottles! Next, we drove over to Clos du Bois, another big winery made famous by the purchase of it’s fruit from the great Robert Young Estate Vineyard. Great wine is made with great fruit and it is true here as well, their Cabernet has always been good! The place we went next was Simi on Healdsburg Ave. at the end of town going toward Geyserville. This is another long established winery with a colorful history, my clients bought the Late Harvest wine here. Our last stop was the Alderbrook Winery, right at the beginning of Westside Rd outside of Healdsburg. This is where an old business associate of mine was married years ago to his para legal–to the upset of his recently divorced wife, but that is another story. They tasted the wine there and did not buy, but purchased a lot of accessories, chocolate covered blueberries and peanut brittle.
That was the day for those two and the week for me. These five articles were to illustrate the wide variability in wine tours from one day to the next! Hope you enjoyed it!
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