Since this was a working weekend, we strategized all morning until Cyndy reminded us that we had an afternoon wine tasting appointment.
Knowing we were only going to visit one winery, Cyndy's choice of Ladera was absolutely perfect. Ladera Vineyards is the home of estate grown and produced hillside Cabernet Sauvignon focused on their Howell Mountain Appellation Cabernet. Behind this wine is their historic 1886 restored and renovated stone winery and underground barrel caves, which we were allowed to explore.
Ladera’s Howell Mountain vineyard was considered, from the very beginning, to be a little piece of France, and was named Nouveau Medoc Vineyard by the men who founded it. Jean Brun, a native of Bordeaux, and Jean V. Chaix, whom he met in Napa, first planted 20 acres of Medoc grapes here in 1877— among the first to plant vineyards up on this mountain instead of on the Napa Valley floor. Spectacular setting for a spectacular work break!
The evening concluded with dinner on the patio followed by movies in our pajamas. A day of productivity and folly...just what everyone needed.
Here's to the corkscrew - a useful key to unlock the storehouse of wit,
the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship,
and the gate of pleasant folly.
-W.E.P. French
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