Monday, March 24, 2008

Friends and Fam! (Day 1 of 4)

I figured the best way to recap the fun and festivities of last weekend is a day-by-day breakdown. There are several reasons for this. 1) There are lots of pics and fun to tell of 2) It gives me blogging material for the next 4 blogs!

Our first day wine tasting in Sonoma Valley! More specifically, it was barrel-tasting weekend -- all the wine you can drink for $55. This is when they "tap the bungholes" (that is the actual term) of the wine casks and siphon it out for us to drink. There also were food pairings with each wine that were pretty darn culinarily pleasing! The best news...I only had one run-in with a "cougar", so I deem that a pretty successful day :) By the end, we had visited 5 wineries and tasted a little Chardonnay and Merlot, but mostly Zinfindel, Cabernet, and Pinot Noir. We went home and pretty much crashed...darn depressents!

Would you like some cheese with the wine?


Jeff gets wine from a cask (To make this tagline more funny, replace "gets" with "taps", delete "wine from", and replace "cask" with "bunghole") [snickering]


The group in front of the wine caves


The group at Ledson Vineyard

3 comments:

Brenna said...

Best time ever!! So do they have this event every year...I think I need to bring Ken out for it next year!

Aaron D said...

Dude - the cougar is a delicate and elusive creature. Their perfectly-aged beauty is to be respected for sure, not shunned. Many things they have to teach us my dear boy - many things.

Tanner Reed said...

Brenna - yes it is!

Aaron - [ceaseless laughter!]