There is a refrain among people who talk to me about their upcoming visit to California. They want to watch the bread formed into animal shapes at Boudin’s on Fisherman’s Wharf, they want to ride a cable car, and they want to have a couple of Irish coffees at the Buena Vista. But most of all they want to go to Napa. They desperately have to go to Napa. If they don’t go to Napa they will surely die. Or worse: they’ll have just a so-so time in California.
Everyone who hasn’t done it yet wants to do it and do it big. They’ve heard the stories and they are determined to outdo their braggy friends. Everyone who has done it wants to do it again, because they have their favorite winery now and had such a good time that they own the experience now. They want to bolster it, feed that ownership, fatten it up and adopt it into their family. [Read more…] about Napa? Let’s Not and Say We Did