It’s All About the Wine
June 13, 2008
Just took a little break from corporate photography and visited Napa and Sonoma in California Wine Country. Even if you don’t imbibe (and I do), there is so much there to fill you with joy. Perfect weather, gorgeous scenery, exquisite dining, happy people (with or without the wine!). It’s a wine lover’s heaven, and a photographer’s paradise.
The Growing…miles and miles of rolling hills and vineyards.
The Tending…migrant workers are seen throughout wine country working the vineyards.
The Fermenting…large metal vats where the juice-to-wine transformation takes place.
The Swirling…“opening up” the wine, a must-do before tasting.
The Tasting…a Merlot, a Pinot Noir, and a Cabernet Sauvignon are poured for a tasting.
Flags at Half-Mast at Mondavi Winery…Robert Mondavi, a California wine country icon, passed away on May 16, 2008, at the age of 94, just two weeks before my visit. Flags at his winery in Napa fly at half-mast.
What a peaceful and alive world. It brings me to another time and space which is so much part of our American culture.
The imagry was breath taking of the wine country.Robert Mondavi would be pround.
A bouquet of imagies for both the eyes and the pallet