Saturday, October 10, 2009

Winesh Country

The Temecula Valley is our local "Wine Country". It's not as well-known as Napa of course, it's not as nice as Paseo Robles and the wine isn't as good as Santa Barbara, but it is a two hour drive from home - which makes it the best Wine Country around!

Friends of ours are members of a Temecula Winery wine club and they drive out every few months or so to pick up their latest shipment. We tagged along a few weeks back and had a great time.

We stopped in at 3-4 wineries but the highlight of the day for me was lunch! When I think of an ideal afternoon, not much beats a picnic lunch with sandwiches, good friends and a bottle or two of the grape.

We also found a couple of workable spots for a round of Bocce ball so we will have to bring the Bocce set along next time!

Picnic tables in the middle of the vines:


Freshly crushed grapes!:


This winery cleverly wrote all sorts of little wine factoids on their barrels in chalk:


We claimed the table in the lower left for our grand picnic!

If you are interested in checking out our winesh country, go to http://www.temeculawines.org/

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