On Sunday, we woke up and enjoyed the final morning in Rio Vista as Kevin’s spread. He was amazing to have us in his home, share his puppies and pizza, and the visiting was great. We took off and headed back to Monterey but did make a lunch stop at “In-n Out Burger” before we got back to town.
Upon return, we decided it was time to partake in the local wine crop! We visited a few tasting rooms. There is this perception that you go to where the grapes are grown, see the vines, and then partake in the wine that is happening right there. That’s not the case and after some thinking about this, it’s really okay. The vines are grown in rural areas in California where nothing is really surrounding it and then they have tasting rooms where locals and tourists, such as ourselves, can tour the town, pay the price and sample wine after wine and just walk door to door. That’s what we did. We stopped at about 4 tasting houses. We started getting smart, we split a tasting either shared it or Matt enjoyed his dry reds and I took in the sweets. It was pretty brilliant once we got the hang of it. One thing I discovered from our adventure, I do not like Chardonnays. I’ll stick with my fruit wines and other whites! Here’s my favorites: Apricot, White Merlot, and then an almond champagne!
We headed back to Sara and Jason’s that night and enjoyed Sara’s Chicken piccata. We did think it was “fresh” chickens, but we were informed that they were not the chickens we’d seen earlier in the week! It was great and I wouldn’t kick Sara out of the kitchen ever. We recouped on the couch and just enjoyed some light conversation and the harmonic tones of little Jason!
Best meal of the day: chicken piccata with asparagus and artichokes!
“We won’t ever enjoy a bottle of wine together will we?” –MJR as he drank a cab and I had a glass of cranberry spice.
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