Category Archives{Blogs}

Variety of blog posts in Sonoma

Wine Country Casual Defined

by timz3 years ago in Blogs.1 Comment

From an 18-year transplant (in California, after 15 years, you kind of become a “native”) who details what Wine Country Casual is and how to pull it off. (You can start by pulling off that suit – are you here to drink wine or serve me with papers?) Then… I moved to Sonoma County. OMG, what culture shock evolved from {…}

Restaurant Mirepoix, Windsor

by timz3 years ago in Blogs.0 Comments

A great review of a Sonoma County gem in the culinary gem of Windsor. (Seriously, people pooh-pooh the place, but it has lots of great, unpretentious wine-country fabulous restaurants, all within a ten minute walk of each other.) Thanks, Loving Anneie! It looks like a small house from the outside, with a welcoming front porch. Inside, the tiny 6 table {…}

From San Francisco to Sonoma

by timz3 years ago in Blogs.0 Comments

Some visiting Brits are driving up the California coast, and after spending some time in San Francisco, headed over the Golden Gate Bridge to the quaint town of Sonoma. They stopped at Cornerstone Place, where there are quirky art installations and then headed into town for lunch. Our first full day in San Francisco. We still had our rental car {…}

Kenwood, and should, in Sonoma Valley

by timz3 years ago in Blogs.0 Comments

Linda Castrone, one of our favorite local writers, had a great piece about Kenwood in the latest Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. She wrote: The village of 4,000 straddles the sweet spot of Sonoma Valley’s wine country on Highway 12, about halfway between Sonoma and Santa Rosa. Farmers still tend the grapevines planted there by their families more {…}

First Indian Winegrower in America

by timz3 years ago in Blogs.0 Comments

The Indian Wine Academy posted a great interview with Avtar Singh, often noted as the first Indian winegrower in the United States. His vineyard is outside Geyserville, just north of Healdsburg. Avtar Singh Sandhu: First Indian Winegrower Of USA It makes sense that a friendly person like Avtar Singh Sandhu would fit right in the wine community at Sonoma Valley {…}

Sonoma's serenity!

by timz3 years ago in Blogs.0 Comments

Some folks from  Rhode Island came out to the Russian River Valley and the Sonoma Wine Country. They stayed at the Raford Inn – not far from Healdsburg and Windsor. Looks like they enjoyed missing the snow of winter, and came out the green of wine country! The weather in Sonoma was cool and clear and just right for traveling {…}

Obama – Will It Be Korbel?

by timz3 years ago in Blogs.0 Comments

Lora Finnegan, a noted travel writer-turned-blogger, wonders if Korbel’s champagne will be used in Obama’s inauguration: Champagne is made to celebrate life’s big events and there is no bigger American event this January than the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama (Jan. 20). But what drink should you use to toast the event (or this coming New Year’s)? Try one champagne {…}

Winter in Sonoma

by timz3 years ago in Blogs.0 Comments

Not only stunning photos, but some great tips on wine country in winter. The writer makes some good points about wine tasting in Napa versus Sonoma, and even offers good insight about west Sonoma County and towns like Occidental. And, again, the photos are gorgeous. While the rest of America hunkers down for a long, cold winter indoors, Northern Californians {…}

Madrona Manor impresses in Healdsburg

by timz3 years ago in Blogs.0 Comments

Michael Bauer, the restaurant critic from the main newspaper in that medium-sized town on the end of the Peninsula, has a nifty review of Madrona Manor. Madrona Manor, in Healdsburg, is THE spot for Healdsburg dining – classy but unpretentious, classic but cutting-edge. It’s beautiful in a retro sort of way; each room has a fireplace, and the tables, scattered {…}

egb63 and the Sonoma trip

by timz3 years ago in Blogs.0 Comments

From a blog featuring blowing snow, a quick recap of their weekend in the wine country: We spent most of  last weekend in the sonoma area of wine country.  We stayed at a favorite inn , ate at a favorite restaurant and went to 3 wineries. More… They went to Quivira, Lambert Bridge and Hook and Ladder – all good {…}