Woke up late again after a relaxing evening. H was kind enough to get waffles for me, which I wolfed down after a somewhat light dinner.
This morning, we drove down south. Along the way, we stopped by Sequoia Grove. I had wanted to stop by this winery to taste their Gewurztraminer. It was my sister's favorite wine and was once served on Singapore Airline first class cabin. When we arrived though, we were in formed Jim Allen, the founder of the winery had sold the winery. Since Allen Family was his label, they had stopped the label and had not made Gewurztraminer since!
We were disappointed, but decided to try the new Sequoia Grove wine. We were the only part in the tasting room and had a generous pourer. We enjoyed a flight of red wine and another flight of white wine in the outside garden and got a little tipsy.
We decided we had enough wine for the morning and stopped by Oakville Grocery for a simple picnic lunch of grilled polenta cake, cheese, and salad. Weather was great as usual in Napa valley and we enjoyed out time in the sun.
After lunch, we decided to stop by a winery with a beautiful building. Turned out, it was the famous Opus One label. At this time, both of us did not want to drink anymore wine, so just toured the winery. The building had a update-classical look and was quite handsome.
My original plan was to go to downtown Napa and purchase a wine tasting card. This card cost $20 and at 10 different downtown tasting room, initial tasting cost only 10 cents. But, we were all "wined-out" for the weekend. Instead, we browsed the shops a little. The downtown area was fairly quiet on Sunday afternoon, with many stores closed, so we decided to call it a weekend and head home.
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