With the town not named I assume BS.

National Zinfandel Day! Wednesday, Nov 19th, is National Zinfandel Day, so do the patriotic thing and celebrate!

A holiday worth celebrating :)

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Unsold Grapes, Vines Pulled Out It was a tough year for grape growers. Not just a cyclical "normal" tough year, but really tough. The following is taken from an 11/12/25 a...

This year's top wine story.

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To Age or Not to Age That is the question you might ask with wines you've purchased or wanting to purchase. Should I, or can I, drink this now or is it best to w...

Do you like gambling? Try aging expensive wine and years later open it when it's at its peak.
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Important Vineyards in Sonoma County Not necessarily the best, oldest, biggest, or most famous vineyards, though they could be. These are important because of their influence. W...

There are important vineyards like there are important wineries
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Should Glass Wine Bottles Go Away? Almost half of a winery's greenhouse gas emissions are from the production and transport of glass bottles. It could be a big win if there's ...

Is there a better choice than putting wine in a glass bottle?
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The Other White Wine, Sauvignon Blanc "The Other White Meat" was a 1980s advertising campaign slogan for pork. Sauvignon Blanc is the other white wine. As there is more than chic...

Sauvignon Blanc
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Leave it alone. Do none of you all ever fly to another time zone? Summer std time means 4am daylight for some of us.

We have a cat. He's always disappointed in us. lol

Wine Tasting in Sonoma County on Foot Visitors often wonder about the best way to experience the wineries with worrying about getting a DUI. Some ways are having a DD, hire a dri...

Pub crawling for wine!

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Chardonnay, the Commodity Wine Commodity - A basic good like crude oil, grain, or steel that is interchangeable with other goods of the same type. A soybean is a soybean,...

Ordering a wine not caring who made it.
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Wow, was that a stupid statement. We have to put up with gun deaths, school shootings and all, so we can protect ourselves? Jeezez. All that can mean is, so we can go to war with the libs if we have to.

Air Travel Into Sonoma County Southwest Airlines has just announced upcoming service to STS, Sonoma County's commercial airport. SW will be offering flights to and from ...

Getting to Sonoma & Napa just got easier.
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Sonoma County Harvest Events 2025 Autumn is harvest time in Wine Country and there are many special events to celebrate the harvest. If you're going to be in the area this fa...

Events in Sonoma County during the grape harvest
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Bored with Chardonnay, Cabernet, and/or Pinot? Chard, Cab, and Pinot are the Big Three in wine. If you drink only what's popular, you might be bored with these. And with demand comes high...

Alternative wine varietals when the same ol' thing won't do.

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Ahhhh, the good ol' days are back. We have racial profiling again thanks to the enlightened voice of the SC. It's much easier for the fascists to do their job now.

I can't wait to see what they come up with when the govt gets around to gays, Jews & Democrats!

If it's for a data center for far off company profits I'd be PO'ed too.
I'm not anti-solar, I have solar at home.

Why the redwoods are so magnificent.
Look closely at the bottom - middle of the picture.

I didn't have Trump openly declaring war on US citizens on my 2025 bingo card.
I thought it would be 2026.

September is California Wine Month Over 20 years ago, the California State Legislature gave us a whole month to celebrate wine!

We've been tasked with drinking wine for the rest of the month!

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I heard that same shit last election and people stayed home. The people that don't care are at least as dangerous as the neo-nazis.

What do you mean your bed? I'm in charge around here.

Including the corporate news media bending to this.

I'm in California and I didn't know that. I usually get lime. Only MX cola I see is Coca-Cola.

Meanwhile, over on FB. 😁

Where Does California Wine Come From? To some, California wine and Napa wine are the same. That is, when they think of premium California wine, they are focused on Napa Valley Ca...

Does most California wine come from Napa? Nope, that's only a tiny part of it.

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We may have been neighbors. My ancestors came in 1643. Home was Surry County Virginia.

Wine Trends By Decade There have been many  American wine trends over the years. It's not as though wine fashion was invented with that organic non-alcoholic natt...

Past wine trends. Some have stuck around.
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Time for the feds to step in and keep us safe. Minimum age for the purchase of a sub sandwich should be raised to 18. You should also have a govt-issued sub safety card showing you've had proper sub handling training.

Spotted Lanternflies, Just What the West Coast Doesn't Need The invasive plant-hopping Spotted Lanternfly , indigenous to Asia, has made its way to the eastern U.S., probably via a cargo ship from Asi...

This plague of locusts is moving west.

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