Wood and wine

So obviously I couldn't be this close to wine country without visiting some local wineries, so I booked on a tour that started with Muir Woods remarkable sequoias (old and very tall - not as wide as the giant sequoias in Yosemite though).

The trees can be upto 2000 years old - most of these ones were 200-800 years and can reach up to 300 feet tall.

Looking straight up!!

Close up of the foliage on the forest floor.

So having done our bit in supporting the National Parks we headed to Sonoma for the real purpose of the trip!

First stop was Meadowcroft winery - with a lovely oaked Chardonnay and a tasty Pinot noir.

Found my twin at the next winery, the Larson family winery. Lots of yummy wines here including their three lab cab which is self explanatory:

After a quick lunch in Sonoma town - very pretty around a park square, but too hot to sit outside - we headed to the Robledo winery where the brothers showed us the vines and explained a lot about the wines.

After a quick Golden Gate view stop we headed back into the city - a fact that I didn't know about San Fran is that you can take your own wine into all the restaurants for a corkage charge - so we knew what we were drinking with dinner!