 Caterina, the gracious hostess and matriarch inspects the last of the '86 out of my cellar.
|  The polenta is served!
|  Dinner time, Caterina and John the wine grower standing and Dan, the winemaker, arrived late and poures what we saved for him.
|  We relocated to John's house to play pool and sample some more wine, yes that glass on the far right is that crooked, but the Bedrock did not mind..
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 I sucked at pool and the kids asked for better partners.
|  This is rack 1 of 2 is an interesting collection. When John's fruit was under contract to Gallo,....
(enlarge to 'orig' to read the labels)
|  ... they bottled some wine from each batch and designed a special label for each vintage and varietal! Nice touch!
|  Kids in school it was to early to head for the barn. The camera with me I headed for the Plaza and did some window shopping.
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 If you click on the picture, then enlarge to the blue 'original' below, you can read the Dry Creek Kitchen menu.
|  The kitchen has windows!!
|  They say that it takes a lot of beer to make good wine and here you get some of the best! A night cap pint of Racer 5 made for sound sleep.
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