Wine Tasting!

Today we decided to look for the County Fair again and this time we found it! It looked pretty small and it was pretty hot so decided to go:

Yep we decided to go wine tasting. We went to Terre Rouge/Easton and tasted some wine. We brought home a Barbera, a Zin, a late harvest Zin and a Syrah. In 1999 when we were wine tasting with a group, we had one of their Syrah's and really liked it. We think it was a 96 or older (we can't remember yesterday why do we think we can remember what year the wine was)! We really enjoyed it so we bought a 2005 Syrah which wasn't available for tasting but thought we'd take a chance and try it.

Then we went down the road to another winery called Toscano's where we had a bistro lunch of tri-tip steak sandwiches (very yummy). Didn't try any wine but looked around a bit and enjoyed our lunch.

We took a nice drive through Amador county. The countryside is full of rolling hills, pine trees and grape vines. We passed at least 20 wineries. We're thinking we'll come back with friends Jim & Della some time and do some serious wine tasting!

Wine tasting in the countryside..."ain't life grand"!