Day 18 Sept. 22 Kunde, Ledsom, Beringer, The Reel

What can I say.....another great day of wine tasting!!  This morning, we headed out to Kunde Winery.  My choir director, Gary Kunde (no relationship) gave me a bottle of Kunde wine for helping him out with something at Christmas.  I REALLY liked it and thought it would be fun to check it out on our trip.  In researching it, I found out they offered a Mountain Top Tasting experience so I booked it for the 4 of us.  Believe me, it is one of the best things we have done!!  So much fun, great wines (again, far better than what can be bought from them in stores), a wonderful wine educator/tour guide, Paul,  and fun people on our tour.  We started out in a private room with a tasting of a Sauvignon Blanc then loaded up the bus for the 1500 foot ascent up the hill to our tasting.  In between, we stopped to taste grapes from 150 year old vines, land saw the boxing ring where they filmed the scene in Bottle Shock!  They filmed quite a bit of that movie at Kunde!
The tasting on the top of the mountain was absolutely beautiful, with a cool breeze and an unbelievable 90 mile view.  It was incredible and the wine was amazing.  After we spent about 45 - 60 mimutes up there, we went back down to the private room and tasted 2  more of their more elite wines.  It was so much fun, so informative and we met the nicest people!  Highly recommend it!!

 

 

 

 

 
It was tough to leave this great place but leave it we did and headed to a winery called Ledsom.  We choose it because it was so beautiful.  We learned you can't tell a book by it's cover.  We did not care for the wine we tasted there and.....listen closely....we...did...not....buy....any....wine there!!  Yes...it is true!  But, we were glad we went, learned alot and saw a beautiful place!!

We wanted the girls to finish the day on a good note, so we took them to Napa to Beringer where Becky and I went on Wednesday.  Our friend, Adrian, we there to greet us and wait on us and he did not disappoint.  The whole wine experience was just wonderful and I think the girls enjoyed it! Really love this place!!  Didn't take any pictures today.  See Wednesday's blog for pictures.

Paul, our wine educator from Kunde had suggested The Reel as a good place for dinner so after our great time at Beringer, we went to The Reel and had a great dinner, then home after a long day.

This has been another great day!  Tomorrow, we are heading over to the coast to see the Pacific Ocean, then hitting a few more wineries on the way home.  Love California!