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Wisconsin State Fair

August 21, 2009

Wisconsin State Fair Food – for your viewing pleasure, a photo tour of a sampling of the food stands I encountered on my way from the entrance of the fair to the location to buy the famous Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff.

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California Wine Country 2009 – Dry Creek – Day Two

June 14, 2009

One of the reasons that we were interested in headquartering our visit in the Dry Creek area was because you literally can’t turn around without encountering an interesting, Zinfandel-producing winery. This certainly proved to be true on this day.

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F. Teldeschi Winery

June 14, 2009

Our last stop of the day was certainly one of the most interesting. The Teldeschi’s are an old grape growing family with a long history in the area. Frank is the fourth generation of the family and the one who started the winery. He has some unique ideas about producing wines.

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Kokomo Winery

June 14, 2009

This winery was founded by two transplanted midwesterners. We were greeted at the door by Riley, the winery dog, who while at first showed great interest in us, eventually decided that we were boring.

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Papapietro Perry Winery

June 14, 2009

Papapietro Perry is located in what can only be described as an industrial park for wineries. Six small wineries have their production facilities clustered together. With land at a premium in Dry Creek Valley, this makes sense, and doesn’t detract from the wine…

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Preston Vineyards

June 14, 2009

The Prestons are proponents of organic farming and are as involved in the making of olive oil and vinegar as they are their wines. The wines themselves are mostly Rhone varieties and Zinfandel.

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Bella Vineyards

June 14, 2009

Bella Vineyards is on West Dry Creek Road which is a narrow road running parallel to Dry Creek Road. One of their claims to fame is a cave tunneled under one of their vineyards that is used for barrel aging wine. It also contains the tasting room which lets you get into the spirit of things.

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David Coffaro Vineyard and Winery

June 14, 2009

David Coffaro has a unique perspective on winemaking that has earned the respect of his peers. He definitely does things his way. Like the use of screw cap bottles. Or blending grapes you’ve hardly ever heard of. Or selling most of his wine as futures. Or making a wine from the bottom of every barrel. Or making wines that are affordable.

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Dutcher Crossing Winery

June 14, 2009

On the second day of touring the Dry Creek region of Sonoma County, we visited Dutcher Crossing Winery.

Dutcher Crossing is located right on Dry Creek Road. The tasting room is in a modern wooden building that blends nicely into the surrounding vineyards.

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Sbragia Family Vineyard

June 14, 2009

Sbragia is a family owned winery founded by a long time winemaker at Beringers. It is located at the far northern end of Dry Creek Valley.

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Pedroncelli Winery

June 14, 2009

Pedroncelli is one of a number of multi-generational family wineries having been founded in 1927. The winery consists of a collection of rustic farm buildings a few miles off Dry Creek Road. We had visited the winery on one of our previous trips about ten years ago and found not much has changed…

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California Wine Country 2009 – Dry Creek – Day One

May 31, 2009

California Wine Country holds a very strong appeal for many. And for many, that typically means going to Napa Valley and taking in the traditional tourist atmosphere. Every California wine aficionado should do this at least once. But once you’ve done that, your best bet is to take your tourist experience and then delve deeper into the culture, the wine, and the region.

After numerous trips to California wine country, we honed in on Sonoma County and, specifically, the Dry Creek area near Healdsburg. This is the first of a four part series recounting our recent trip to this area.

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Apple for Lunch

October 18, 2007

The title of this post is a bit misleading. I haven’t, unfortunately, gone on a health kick and started to eat apples for lunch. No fear of that. Instead, I and some cohorts in crime ate lunch at Apple today. We were in Cupertino, CA visiting the Apple campus on business. We were treated to [...]

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Wine Country Capers, Day One

October 3, 2007

Our day started off nice and early – we headed to the airport at around 5:00 AM. Flights were relatively uneventful, apart from our extended stay on the runway in Minneapolis. Over an hour of sitting in one spot and doing nothing, while planes around us packed into the line that wasn’t moving. If there [...]

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Roughing It – Meat and Potatoes

December 17, 2005

Another of our simple meals at the fly in camp in northern Ontario.As mentioned before, we try and plan every other dinner to include something other than fish. This isn’t because of a lack of confidence in catching them, its more a desire to break up the entree’s so that we don’t get sick of [...]