With an infallible sense of the adventure my
husband chose Highway 12 as a spectacular wine tasting road for our
weekend with friends in late December last year. It was a sort of Pre-Christmas
happiness that brought us together, and we were drifting from one winery to
another with no purpose more apparent than our desire to taste wines and
catch the changing colors of the valley and the dramatic Mayacamas mountains in
the distance.
Rising like a gothic
dream out of rolling, vine-covered hills, this French Normandy Castle is simply spectacular.
The Ledson family specializes in small lots of hand-crafted impressive wines: Merlot, Pinot Noir, Syrah, Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Sauvignon
Blanc, Riesling, Rosa, Madera port, and others.
Located at the foothills of
the Mayacamas Mountains on the corner of Highway 12 and Adobe Canyon Road in
Sonoma Valley, the Landmark Winery offers complex, aromatic wines with deep,
lasting flavors. 2013 Pinot Noir and 2012 Syrah are terrific!
The En Garde Winery is a little tasting room with remarkable
red wines and happy atmosphere whose winemaker and proprietor, Csaba Szakal, is
a fourth generation winemaker from Hungary. Csaba is famed for his passion for
Cabernets of high elevation sites (Diamond Mountain District in the Napa
Valley) and Russian River Valley Pinot Noir.
Kunde Family Winery is a winery with
incredible history that shows family's great passion for life, land and
winemaking. Five generations of the Kunde Family have carried on the tradition of
crafting delicious, estate-grow wines. Kunde Sauvignon Blanc,
Sonoma Valley, has been my favorite white wine for a long time. It is a rich,
refreshing, elegant Sauvignon Blanc with bright citrus notes and soft melon
flavors. Kunde Syrah and Kunde Zinfandel (both Sonoma Valley) are also my
favorites.
More wine, please!
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