A Fun Trip to Wine Country

I was told by several girlfriends that if I could drink with them at our cruise to Mexico that will be so much fun for everyone.

So encouraged by them, I started practising drinking two weeks ago, a quarter of red wine glass everyday.  That's how much I can take without getting drunk.  To show his support, Rob decided to take me to Napa Valley to get a wine tour and tasting.

Clos Du Val Winery is a winery in the Stags Leap District of California's Napa Valley. The winery was founded by two men who were born into the French wine business, John Goelet and Bernard Portet. After scouting the world for two years to locate areas where they might produce Bordeaux-style wine, Porter identified the then-undiscovered Stag’s Leap district of California’s Napa Valley as especially promising. Goelet bought 150 acres (61 ha) of vineryard land and established the winery in 1972. The next year he bought 180 acres (73 ha) in the Los Carneros region to produce the Burgundian varieties, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. 

Clos Du Val is named a Wine & Spirits Magazine "Winery of the Year" for the fourth time in five years.   Participated in 30th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris Tasting 2006, staged simultaneously in Napa and the U.K. Clos Du Val 1972 Cabernet Sauvignon and four other California Cabernets beat out the original French Bordeaux wines, proving that Clos Du Val wines truly age with grace.

 

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars is a Napa Velley First Growth.  It's founded by Warren Winiarski and his family in 1970.  Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is best known for our estate-grown Cabernet Sauvignons—CASK 23, S.L.V., and FAY. Over the years, these wines have become some of the most highly regarded and collected wines worldwide. They are fashioned to express classic elegance, structure, and ageability, and to reflect the place in which they are grown.

 

Silverado VineyardsRon and Diane Miller chose to purchase land with existing vineyards in the mid-1970s after a long time romance with the Valley. Although the Millers' original intention was to only grow grapes, it wasn't long before they began construction of their own winery on the property in 1981.