Wine Anyone?

We decided to head to the less known wine areas of Amador and El Dorado Counties in the Sierra Nevada foothills, home to the California Goldrush and some world-class Zinfandels, one of Lisa's favorite wines. We arrived in the area on a Monday which meant that a limited number of wineries were open and even less on Tuesday and Wednesday so we made the most of the time we had on Monday!

Monday night we hit the town of Plymouth seeking food and drinks, not easy to find in this little town after 8pm, all we found was the local dive which provided us with peanuts and where we made friends with the locals who ended up buying our drinks for the evening, thanks Steve!

On Tuesday we started the day with a huge breakfast at a local diner, too much food but so good, not good before you head out wine tasting though, not sure Troy ever recovered from his egg scrambler! We hit the El Dorado County focusing on Apple Hill and the Placerville Area. Placerville is a really cute town with yummy restaurants and shops, check it out if you are ever in the area.

Here are some of our favorites for you wine lovers out there:

• Sobon Estate (Amador)- 2006 Zinfandel Cougar Hill (In fact we are drinking it tonight as we write this blog) and 2006 Reserve White Port


• C.G. Di Arie (Amador) - Very good blends and Port


• Bella Piazza (Amador) - 2004 Rio Volpe Zinfandel (Very friendly staff and beautiful grounds)


• Lava Cap (El Dorado) - 2004 Rocky Cap Zinfandel


• Jodar (El Dorado) - 2005 Black Bear Port


• Sierra Vista (El Dorado) - 2005 Red Rock Ridge Syrah


• Renwood Winery (Amador)- Yummy Zins

Far Horizons 49er Village RV Resort was our home for the 3 nights in the area, loved it! Of course you need to like the sound of bullfrogs at night, wow are they loud! We didn't take many photos while in the area as we were distracted by the gorgeous weather and yummy wine but here are a few: