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Cool Concept ... Blending Cabernet at Conn Creek Winery

Conn Creek Winery Gardens (Photo: Alice Joyce)

Conn Creek Winery Gardens (Photo: Alice Joyce)

Conn Creek Winery

offers Cabernet Sauvignon tastings in their AVA Room as part of a unique blending seminar for small groups (no more than 10 people).

Above photo: Outside the AVA Room

Conn Creek Winery AVA Room (Alice Joyce photo)

Participants take part in a guided walk-around barrel tasting, sampling wine from single-vineyard sites in 14 sub-appellations – AVAs

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Luxurious Sonoma Lodgings .. Vintners Inn

Vintners Inn - Summer Scene (Alice Joyce photo)

Lodgings at the Vintners Inn offer a luxurious retreat set within a 92-acre vineyard landscape. The Inn’s 3 separate buildings comprise 44 rooms and suites featuring French country decor, each with a private patio, or a balcony with lovely views. Book a room with a fireplace and Jacuzzi for a particularly heavenly respite from the workaday world. Enjoy drinks and a light meal in the Front Room Bar & Lounge adjacent to the famed John Ash & Co. restaurant, or make reservations for dinner. John Ash is known for introducing the ‘locavore’ approach to Sonoma County, with the creation of seasonal cuisine sourcing local ingredients.

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Intoxicating Lavender Fields .. Matanzas Creek Winery

Matanzas Creek stairway Photo © Alice Joyce

The lavender and estate gardens at Matanzas Creek Winery are situated amid hilly terrain in Sonoma County’s Bennett Valley. Washed over in luminous hues, the setting combines an elegant naturalism and robust verdure, where majestic native oaks tower over extravagant plantings. It’s difficult not to be swept away by the heady perfume of lavender that greets you during a June visit. Some 4,500 plants grow on staggered terraces; the cultivated varieties ‘Grosso’ and ‘Provence.’ The distinctive hues and textures create diagonal patterns, leading you on a gradual ascent up the steps of a central path toward the winery’s main building.

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