Barrel Tasting

Jake flew into California yesterday and we planned the weekend to enjoy the Barrel Tasting event in Sonoma county!  The event starts today on Friday and goes through Sunday.  Hundreds of participating wineries open their doors and barrels for us to taste and sample, often times with tasty pairings!

We started off at Stephen & Walker in Healdsburg.  Being Friday, it wasn't too busy which was great.  They had pork sliders for their food pairing and it went very well with their wines.  Then we headed just up the street a bit to our FAVORITE winery; Thumbprint!

They've had a great display up for a while now of "Supermonks" art which is identifiable super heroes sitting with their backs to the viewer.  I'd really like to get the Green Lantern one, but they are very expensive!  For now I'll enjoy them at Thumprint and maybe one day I'll get one!  ^_^  After Thumbprint we went to Roadhouse for tasting there.

From Roadhouse we went down the road a bit to Selby, who had a nice selection out for Friday afternoon!  You can see Jake accepting a tasting as they use the "Theif" to get the wine straight from the barrel!

After Selby, we headed back up the street to Topel.  They guys serving there are students at Sonoma State and it was great hearing from them they think the student registration system (MySSU - which I support) "is great!".

From Topel we went to Williamson wines.  They had some tasty chocolate pairings to go with their wines.  The winemaker and owners were there and they were really friendly.  I like the picture of me and Jake, you can tell we've been to a few wineries!  haha!

We made our way to Portalupi.  I really liked this place, friendly people and a whole spread of sliders and other snacks to enjoy while we tasted the wine.

For our last stop on our Friday barrel tasting in Healdsburg we went to Kobler!  They were a bit further down from the rest, but the walk was great for us!

Since we were eating food and snacks all afternoon the wine didn't hit us as bad as it certainly would have otherwise!  This was certainly the best way to "Start" Barrel tasting weekend!

That evening, Jake and I went to see the new Lego movie and for the first time in my life we were the only people in the whole theater- Nice!!