Napa/San Jose Trip Part 2

On day two we woke up to a day full of aniticipation and I for one was most excited to find out what more all these grapes I’d seen the day before could do for my palette.

Our first stop for the day was the Robert Mondavi wine tour which began promptly at 10 a.m. but don’t worry, we didn’t actually taste any wine until around 11:30 or so. ‘Cause y’all were worried, right? HA!

The tour began among the vines and we basically saw what happens from grape to bottle. This winery is just gorgeous and our tour guide was a pretty animated guy who kept things interesting.

At the tasting

Now let me take a pause here for a moment to say that I wish I could post all the pictures I took. It’s really hard to choose.

After R.M. we stopped by the St. Supery winery, which I’d learned about at a wine tasting the previous week (I was just gearin’ up for the trip). It was a quick stop with some good wine. But we needed lunch.

Lunch was at Tra Vigne per a suggestion from a gentleman that Tim used to work with. I don’t know if Robert will ever read this but if he does let me just say “THANK YOU!” It was divine. We all basically had the same thing. It was a “light” pizza with blue cheese and figs. TO. DIE. FOR. and an appetizer of “just made this morning” fresh mozarella with crusty bread and balsamic. Apparently we like cheese. Here are views of the courtyard and my pizza.

After lunch we moved on to Peju. The building and the grounds here were beautiful. The wine on the other hand…. Not so much. But I did buy some chocolate sauce with Merlot here, that I sampled first. So wine alone not good but mixed with chocolate, pretty darn good. Some photos of pretty Peju.

We continued on our quest for wine and wound up at Franciscan. It was here that I decided to check on the family and found out that Little G was still sick. He had thrown up on Wednesday morning (before I left on Thursday) but seemed fine the rest of the day. Turns out he wasn’t. He continued to have stomach “issues” (if you know what I mean) and STILL isn’t up to par. Tim sounded tired and I was sad that I couldn’t be there for my little guy while he was sickly but there wasn’t much I could do at that point. Does it sound bad that I kept on drinking because at this point I REALLY needed one!

I walked in with tears in my eyes but the girls assured me that the boys would be fine. Tim hung up telling me to have a good time and that they would be fine. So, since everyone seemed fine we pressed on. I don’t look that sad though, do I?