Ridge

Ridge

They produce good Zinfandel.

When we visited there, that was one of the barrel weekends. Lucky to taste couple wines from barrel!

very nice are to travel around. Look at the sky, nothing bothers the sun.

Lambert Bridge winery

I would like to recommend you to visit this winery, "Lambert Bridge" . It is not so big, but very good selections in various grapes. Lovely pino, powerful chardonnay, fruitful and elegant wine.

This is my favorite among my spring CA trip in 2008.

access from Healdsburg, Sonoma

Hess, Napa

Hess Collection Winery

With a beautiful garden, quite old and new atmosphere. New, contemporary art collection in a old stone finish building.

Various selection of wine. No idea about the arts but good wines there!


North-east of Napa centre. Be aware that it is quite a distance to drive in a mountain.

Mumm, USA Brut

The Mumm is one of the brut specialists.

So many sparkling wine tasting is available. Enjoy your selection!

Opus One

Opus one

Don't miss it!

Domain Carneros, Napa

Domain Carneros

Beautiful chateau like building on a hill. Thursday afternoon around 4:00pm, lots of people enjoy the Brut of Domain Carneros.

The snack set is wonderful to cheer up my body after the long flight from TKO plus hour half drive from the SFO airport. Would love to go back again.

Artesa

It opened as Codorniu Napa in 1991, for mainly sparkling wine. In 1999, shifted to create ultra-premium wine.

Beautiful fountains on a hill with amaizing amount of sheeps.

Petaluma, USA

Good location to visit Sonoma and Napa area.

This is first time for us to stay. Big and nice room as it is not locating in SFO downtown.

I found good local beer at the restaurant. Food is good! No need to go out when you are tired.

Koshu wines

Just happened to taste Japanese wines in the same week.

Left: Rubaiyat Koshu Sur Lie 2007 by Marufuji Winery
Right: Grace Koshu 2007 by Cyuo-budosyu winery.

Both are top level wine of our country. You can enjoy the Grace Koshu at the NH air lounge of Narita international airport. Those goes with Sushi very well!

Chateau Montlisse 2000

Chateau Montlisse 2000

Saint-Emilion Grand Cru

Rich and smooth texture with nice aloma of dried fruits.

Yellow rock from Australia

Yellow rock, Chardonnay 2006

Rather good with white meat such as chichen. May be good with fish dishes. I had it with simple pasta with crabs for qucik lunch.