My 60th birthday gift from John and some very special friends was an extravagant Christmas and New Years celebration in California with family and friends. After a rather frustrating delayed departure from Florida six of us arrived to spend seven days at Sea Ranch. Three hours north of San Francisco, Sea Ranch is an amazing utopian community stretching 10 miles along the rocky scenic coastline. … Continue reading California Coast December 2011……..
Why can’t real estate attorney conferences be held in locations like this?! Our wonderful Massachusetts/Florida friends Linda Sargent and Jim Lingley sent us this post from their recent medical conference trip and side adventure into the northern California wine region…….. Photo credit: Blake Marvin Photography Linda and I traveled to California (I had a Radiology meeting at the Half Moon Bay Ritz – where else … Continue reading Doctors in the wine country……
Good friends of ours had a wonderful adventure this summer leasing a small motor home to travel through Washington and Oregon with their young son. John shared some winery recommendations for their trip and Robert was kind enough to report back on their adventures in the northwest wine country. Parker inspecting the grapes at Sokol Blosser “Your recommendations for visiting wineries were spot-on. From your … Continue reading Summer travels…….
We escaped for a night to Ft. Myers, Florida. The city is only an hour and a half south of Sarasota but it may as well be hours away for as often as we have visited. The city is along the Caloosahatchee River and is well known for being the former winter home of Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford. Today it is best known … Continue reading Overnight to Ft. Myers……
Central California is special! The region is farm country and brimming with vineyards. We spent 4 days in the region in mid May. 3 of the 4 days were unusually cool, overcast and sometimes raining so our favorite lunch mode – picnicing at a vineyard only happened once on the last day before heading on to Carmel. Sadly, many of the wines purchased on this … Continue reading Paso Robles and…..
Who would have expected to find wineries in Idaho! Well, I guess, I mean established wineries and good wines we would enjoy. We had little time to visit so the list is short but here are two we happily consumed…. 2006 SGM Syrah, Grenache, Mouvedre – Snake River Winery 2008 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon – Sawtooth Winery A side note: If you find yourself in Boise … Continue reading Idaho has Wine!
Before going west we made a trip to Orlando in early May and a stop at Tim’s Wine Market on North Orange Avenue – http://www.timswine.com. If you find yourself in Orlando on a Friday night, Tim’s has a wine tasting worth a visit. We happened in on it and tried a terrific, inexpensive – $10.00 a bottle – Innocent Bystander and walked out with 2 … Continue reading A Trip to Tim’s Wine Market……
John's Wine Cellar 