Sonoma Wine Country
1982 - 2017
May 2017
With John and Muriel Niehaus
Francis Ford Coppola Winery
May 2013
Dry Creek Valley
Dry Creek Valley
Dry Creek Valley
One of our favorite wineries - and its Rustic Restaurant
Coppola Winery
Rustic Restaurant
Matrix Winery logo
Matrix Winery - exceptional pinot noir wines
Sonoma Valley
St Anne's Winery
St Anne's Winery
St Anne's Winery
Mobile bottling
Moving wine for bottling
Dry Creek Valley
Our favorite winery
Mazzocco Winery
Alexander Valley
Alexander Valley
Alexander Valley
Alexander Valley
Barrel stave chairs
Obelisk of bicycle parts - Sant Rosa
May 2012
Ferrari-Carano Winery
Ferrari-Carano Winery
Ferrari-Carano Winery
At Ferrari-Carano Winery
Lake Sonoma
Rockpile desginator area
Sonoma grapes
Oak barrels
Hop Kiln - now a winery
Hop Kiln - now a winery
Hop Kiln - now a winery
Ledson Winery
Sonoma Square
Sonoma City Hall
May 2011
Earlier Trips
Balloons over the vineyards
The first premium winery in California
Everett Ridge
Villa Fiore at Ferrari-Carano Vineyards
Villa Fiore at Ferrari-Carano Vineyards
Hop Kiln Winery
2008
2009
Harvest Moon Winery
Ledson Vineyards
Paul and Cathy Peschiera - no, we weren't staying here....
Sonoma-Cutrer Vineyards
Excellent tour by Beth Ghashghai
After sorting, up the conveyor
The crushing tanks
Glass-ended barrel shows color of chardonnay in progress
Paul and Cathy with Beth in the tasting room
Winemaker Terry Adams
Assistant winemaker Cara Morrison and Rick
Lab director Joe Rogers and Rick
Sorting the grapes
The conveyor moves grapes to tanks
Paul in the barrel room
Sonoma-Cutrer has a forester in France that selects the trees used to make their barrels. Each new barrel costs $1300.
The lab
Rick and Emily in the tasting room
Assistant winemaker Cara Morrison
Beth Ghashghai at winter party barrel tastings
Mazzocco Vineyards and Winery
Matrix Winery (see inset right)
Mazzocco makes 14 zinfandel wines in the Dry Creek Valley
Sonoma Wine Country
Maison Domaine Carneros
Chalk Hill Vineyards
Rick with Chalk Hill Vineyards winemaker Jordan Fiorentini
Domaine Carneros
Wine fair poster
Carneros
Old cemetery
Wine casks at Rodney Strong winery
Flags over Sonoma City Hall
At Rodney Strong
On the square in Sonoma
The irony of this sign was too much to pass up
Sonoma City Hall
Ledson Hotel - on the square in Sonoma
Mural in Sonoma
Best restaurant in town
Mission San Francisco de Solano, Sonoma
(more California mission pictures)
St Francis winery
Drive to Iron Horse Vineyards
Chevrolet at Aati (Italian Swiss Colony site of 1881)
Jacuzzi Family Vineyards - before they made tubs, they made propellers (including for the US Army in WWI)
Doors at Sebastiani Vineyards
Wilson Vineyards
WIlson Vineyards - mascot from the movie Castaway
Silver Oak Cellars
Silver Oak Cellars
Silver Oak Cellars
Cloverdale
Another favorite
No comment
St Francis winery
Iron Horse vineyards
DeLoach winery
Union Hotel - Occidental
Paul at Sonoma Cutrer
Vines in winter
Emily at a fresh produce stand
Chateau St Jean winery
Sunflowers
Cathy and Emily at Iron Horse winery
Lake Sonoma tasting room - Healdsburg
Cathy at Sonoma Cutrer
Emily with Mike and Cheryl Merritt at Clos du Bois
The gecko was here
Obviously a good tax base here
Cathy and Paul Peschiera with Emily and Rick