At the end of March we ventured out for our 2nd annual Livermore Barrel Tasting weekend. For the record this is our second year, but the wineries in the area have been doing it for a few years.. we're just a bit slow. This year Dave and I did the 2 -day event solo... well Drew tagged along for day one and then was rescued by Grammy and GrampC for the second day.
But Drew's a trooper and was very patient with us while we did our tasting. We started at our Wine Club favorite - Cuda Ridge. Drew happily played with his workbooks.
While Mom & Dad did some sipping...
Day 1 was a wet one - it was pouring rain!
We managed to make it to a few places...
Dave and Drew were hamming it up in the cellars of Concannon...
Drew is really trying to "Press" his luck at the huge wine press.
Have no fear.. no wine was consumed by any minors....
Our bribe to get Drew to hold out for wine tasting in this capacity (normally we do a few hours then go home) but we stayed at a hotel in Livermore and he got pizza for dinner and was able to swim in the indoor pool. Shazam! Grammy and GrampC joined us for the night out and then rescued Drew the next day - taking him to a movie while his lush of parents continued barrel tasting.
It was cool - we tried a few new wineries - one of which is a small winery Caddis. They were showing off their new wines and we were shocked to see one of our "wine pourer friend Kathy" from another winery pouring at this one. Turns out his son is making wine under this new label. It was very good! But also a bit pricey for us. We did walk away with one bottle - since our tasting fee pretty much went into it anyway.
A successful barrel tasting weekend completed again!
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