Day 3 - July 31st

Day 3 is Mendocino county. We've never been up here, but we've heard good things. So we drove 70 minutes up here. What we didn't know was how windy the road would be and how sick we would all feel just getting there. Poor Susie. She was in the third row by herself. When we got to the first winery, she couldn't drink anything just yet. Poor thing.

First stop - Navarro. Now we've never been to the winery but we've had their wines and loved it. We had a tour of the vineyard, which also included meeting their Alpaca and a llama, named Fred. As thought, we bought their Gewurtziminer, which as usual was amazing.

Next was Lazy Creek. Lazy Creek was back a windy road (again with the windy roads) and had amazing pinots.

Next was Toulouse. Toulouse had a sign which said Too Tense? Toulouse! with a duck on it. Wine, not so good. We moved on.

Next was Roederer. After all, we couldn't go up here without trying the sparkling. It was ok. Again, we moved on and this time booked it back closer to home to try some "better" wines. Again, we didn't know anything about the area so we had to try it. So we came, we saw and we booked it home. But oh the windy road back, ugh!

Next was Stryker. Interestingly enough they had a Monte Rosso Zin and a Rockpile Cab. Both were good but it seemed backward. We've always had Monte Rosso Cabs and Rockpile zins, but whatever.

We could fit just one more in and Mazzocco was it. 9 tastings here heavy in zins. We were close to splitting a case of the cab Inheritance but they wouldn't work with us on shipping so we moved on.

By this point, we weren't up for cooking so we picked up some burritos and ate at home.

Total Current Count 14 Wineries, 111 tastings