Cheese please

With wine that is. Sunday was a beautiful day, the weather was perfect, and we went wine tasting. Nicki, her bro, Mary (his wife), her parents, & I all spent the day driving around and tasting wine. We got to a little bit of a late start (after noon) but still managed to test out three wineries in the area. The first place we went to had the best tasting wine of the evening (of course we might have been drunk by the last place so you really can't judge that decision :) The houses out there are all sitting on like hundreds of acres of land, beautiful rolling hills, wine abound, horses aloft, and a light breeze just made for the perfect Sunday scenery drive.

ADD Note: I've figured a way to differentiate the parents..... I will call my mom = mom; my dad = pop; and Nicki's mom = momA, Nicki's dad = popA (Their last name is Arden, so the "A" is actually kinda slapstickishy workable).

Anyways, back to the weekend. PopA bought us a Cabernet & Rose` so that was really nice. At the third winery we took a break and had a picnic lunch. The dogs were with us but well behaved and the view was wonderful. Nicki got some really nice shots of the area and a large sunflower pic came out excellent. Now as I mentioned above our tasting of the last place might not have been very accurate - not just for the fact that we had already hit up two wineries before that but also because we were starving by the time we got there and they had peanuts. Wonderfully tasting butter roasted peanuts! Well a mouth full of butter roasted peanuts doesn't exactly result in a neutral palette. Guess we are just going to have to go back there! :)