4605 Westside Road
Healdsburg, CA 95448
(707) 473-9303
They’ve just opened up earlier in the year. The welcoming committee just descended on us – the girls stand out side, welcoming each visitor with a glass of white wine.
Take a note of that.
We had lunch on their terrace overlooking the vineyard. Perhaps the time of the year, there were a lot of flies.
After Limerick Lane Celler we picked up some picnic lunch here and had it at .
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A sleepy town, perhaps helped by the wine trade, is a trendy fashionable town now, dotted with expensive hotels, popular restaurants and bars.
At southern side of the town square at Sonoma, part of California state parks.
At southeast corner of the town square at Sonoma, built after Mexico gained independence from Spain.
At town square at Sonoma. It’s the first hotels built in the state north of San Francisco, according to wiki.
Circa 1852. On the east side at town square at Sonoma. A bakery on this side, gives bread away every evening – by law (no left over bread). We were given one. Should have brought the free bread to dinner at El Dorado Kitchen because its bread sacks.
William Selyem‘s Zinfandel is really good.
My first taste of Zin was in 1986 in New York. It tasted like juice. Rose-ish. Light weight.
That was then.
My view has changed after this trip. Full body and serious.
We bought Zin from two vineyards: William Selyem and Limerick Lanes.
Drop offs welcome, read a sign out side of a bar on east side at town square at Sonoma. The theatre, galleries. Lisa Kristine is a photographer, who uses humanitarian to describe the type of photographer she’s. This one by the entrance sells for US$15,000. A Great Wall photo to the right sells for US$40,000, with 20 prints out there. When I asked the if Ms. K would produces more prints, the lady sat by the desk on the left, was bit offended, saying, ‘of course not.’ Just checking.
