Monday, July 16th
Today, we visited six wineries along the Santa Maria and Foxen Canyon Wine Trails. I think that this was one of the best days of our trip up to this point. We arrived at our first stop, which was Rancho Sisquoc Winery at around 10:30 A.M. where we shared a sample of 11 wines for $5.00! Leah and I reminded each other of the “sip, swirl and dump” rule as we had a long day ahead of us. Rancho Sisquoc is a peaceful, laid back setting. Our next stop on the way to Kenneth Volk winery was Cambria winery. While the wine and service was excellent, the Cambria Winery was a little too commercial for us. We chose not to purchase a bottle of Cambria since we can buy this product in Texas. Kenneth Volk was my favorite winery of the day. This was the only stop of the day to where Leah and I did not share samples. We spent over an hour talking to the Kenneth Volk representative who was nice enough to provide us a container more suitable to transport wine bottles in addition to a wine cookbook for Leah. He said we were fun and enjoyed our visit. He was just as interesting and full of great information.
After purchasing several Volk Wines, we went to Zaca Mesa winery and shared another tasting, purchased a bottle of Syrah and a snack box of cheese, nuts, dried fruit and crackers. We hadn't eaten lunch yet and it was 3:00, so we sat under a tree at a picnic table and ate. After lunch, we went to two more wineries, Koehler where Leah found the tuxedo cat and Firestone, but we didn't sample wines. We were exhausted from our day! We came back to our camp, cooked dinner and went to bed!
It's so very dry here and the hills are brown, but the grape vines are beautiful and just what we imagined. Today we'll head to a few beaches close to San Louis Obispo and hit one or two wineries along the way and back.
Click on this page for a description of the wine trail and links to information about the wineries with a few pictures.
- Rancho Sisquoc Winery
- Cambria
- Kenneth Volk
- Zaca Mesa
- Koehler
- Firestone
3 comments:
Hello travelers!
Sounds and looks like you two had another grand day on the west coast.
Leah, you spotted a '77 Mercedes 240D, we had the same color, four door, but ours was a 300D, the five cylinder model. You will have to tell Wade that didn't want our 10 year old car with 180,000 miles on it for your 16th birthday, but you wanted a new Ford! Not the worst thing you have ever done, but easily in the top 100!
By the way, Paul had some good advice on naked men with shotguns. You actually should avoid picking up anyone, although you and I did it twice, once on the way into Eldorado going to Alpine for you graduation and another time outside of Stephenville. For the record, these guys wern't hitchikers, but old guys who had car trouble.
We look forward to seeing both of you in Alpine next Tuesday around noon.
Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.
Dad
Fantastic! The vineyards and pictures are grand. I'm sure the wine tasting superb. Don't tell me another kittie for the brood that already numbers five? I'm sure there's room for one more kittie amongst the dozens of bottles of new wine choices. Great fun, I'm ready for Wine Country Part III. lwc
P.S. Wade, remember our Mercedes story??? Went to Texas Tech, Lubbock, no problem, went to Waco, Balyor, had to be towed!That's why you're a Bear!
Leah,
It looks like you guys are having lots of fun! Enjoy!
Jasna
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