Scott's Vintage in California: Post 4. Goodbye Napa

Hi All,

It's Friday night and I'm in The Central coast, staying just south of San Luis Obispo. I will post a couple of photos from my last day in the Napa as I saw quite a lot. Wednesday morning I was picked up and went to the Sonoma Valley and checked out a 500 acre vineyard planted mostly with Pinot and chard. We then went up the Valley to Chateau St Jean. This vineyard has spectacular views and to spray some blocks they use steel tracked vehicles because it is so steep. I met the regional manager for Sonoma, cool guy, his name was Scott, cool name. He drove a 6.3 L V8 truck (ute), as do all the other managers. They barely fit on the road. They are giving me a Toyota Tacoma (the taco). Its a bit smaller thank god! The Taco is a Hilux on steroids. Its about 20% bigger in every way to a Hilux. From Sonoma we paid a visit to Stags Leap vineyard and cellars. Very nice old buildings in a secluded canyon. One drawback though is there is no water at this vineyard. They have to truck water from their Gamble vineyard close by to water the vines. 10 trucks a day for four months to keep the vines watered and the winery in water, amazing. We headed to the Gamble vineyard for a budget meeting then we headed south for 3.5 hours to the central coast.