This weekend Sonoma stayed at Vicki's while Crystal and I headed north with our friends Tim and Becca to the Hopland Passport in Hopland, CA. For $35 per person, we enjoyed wine tasting, food pairings, live music and shuttle service to about 10 wineries in the Hopland area for the weekend. We drove up on Friday night and kicked off early Saturday morning.
The first glass of wine was sipped at 10:30 AM on Saturday morning - perfet time for a red blend paired with a sirlion steak slider with chipotle mayo. At the beginning of the day, the crowd was a nice mix of people, old and young. The crowd, however, quickly trended younger as the more "senior" wineos were outlasted by us energetic crowd, fueled off tri tip, homemade Parmesean cheese, pizza, and - oh yeah - wine. We tried roughly 50 different wines, and somehow decided Jaxon Keys was our favorite. I'm sure the setup helped - a guy in overalls pouring tastings from a barrel, a jazz trio, a white tasting room, red tasting room, and italian food pairings (meatballs, portabella mushroom ravioli and butternut squash ravioli).
We ended our wine tasting at 5:30 in downtown Hopland and took a shuttle back to our hotel. The night finished with dinner at a Mexican restaurant - margaritas of course...On the way back towards San Francisco on Sunday morning, we stopped at Jaxon Keys and split a case of wine. A good way to end a fun weekend!
you should have taken Gram and Ann Hoban with you - they can outlast anyone as shown by their shenanigans after Sarah's wedding!
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