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Russian River Pinot Noir

55 miles north of San Francisco, in the western part of Sonoma County is California’s prized Pinot Noir appellation the Russian River Valley. Russians created outposts in Sebastapol, Graton and Freestone in 1812-1841. If you look at the back label of a ...

 
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Pinot Noir Russian River vs Pinot Noir Santa Maria

Pinot Noir loves a cool climate. There are two grape growing regions in California where temperatures can change as much as forty degrees in one day. It is these two regions that we believe grow the best Pinot Noir in the Americas. I remind you that we do ...

 
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Disneyland

The boys were standing in front of Splash Mountain informing me in no uncertain terms that this was a ride they were not going to go on. I was suppose to be with Parker and Lexi, but it was nine year old Billy and eight year old Luke who were on this ...

 
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Girl Power

People ask me all the time who is my favorite woman winemaker. I don’t consider the question sexist. I think it is just a fun question, similar to who are the better winemakers, graduates from Fresno State or Davis. I like competition. I don’t really ...