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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Atticus, the drive to Ferrari Carano is worth it if you stop in Healdsburg and have lunch first. Maybe hit Kendall Jackson for the hell of it. Then go to Ferrari Carano, then you can hit Silver Oak, Murphy Goode and Chateau Souverain on the way back.
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I've never been to the Silver Oak in Sonoma --- I was talking about the one on the Oakville Crossroad. That's the one with the
Spanish mission tasting room and the big big Cabernets.
I don't dispute, BTW, that Ferrari Carano has a beautiful estate, but be serious. If you're on a four-day vacation time budget, you should stick to the corridor and do as many premium brands we've heard of as you can. Go places where you'll later see the wines on a wine list, so you'll have your fond memories of Napa and Sonoma jogged every time you go out to a nice dinner.
Kendall Jackson is more of an empire than a winery. I might stop there after tubing on the Russian River, but I don't think it's really a good destination winery. You seem to have a real jones for so-so mid-priced varietals. Are you on the Sonoma County Chamber of Commerce or something?
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Aloha, I agree with the consensus that V. Sattui wine is crap, but they have an outrageous deli and is always wall-to-wall packed with people. They also have a pleasant picnic area out front to eat your deli selection and pound some water before the big drink fest that is wine tasting.
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This was once true, but I won't be going back to the V. Sattui deli for a while.
This PR response has to be the worst effort at customer service since the waiter famously replied, "The backstroke."
If you're looking for the deli experience without field mice, the
Viansa winery in Sonoma has a pretty elaborate setup. It's pretty far away from the rest of Sonoma's cellars, and I don't think it's actually a winery, but if you squint and look out over the hills you'd swear you were in Tuscany (Important exception: the weekend there's a Winston Cup race at Sears Point, it does not seem like Tuscany).
