I spent a day with a wine journalist in Pope Valley (Napa) a couple of weeks ago and must recommend this beautiful area that I was not very familiar with until now!
Pope Valley is an community located in the small valley of the same name in the Mayacamas Mountains and northern Napa County, California. It is east of Calistoga, north of Angwin, and borders Lake Berryessa, the second largest man-made lake in California.
When visiting Napa Valley, you have roughly 400 options for wine tasting and most visitors to the valley, including people from the trade, will follow the rest of
the traffic up and down Hwy 29 or the Silverado Trail. However, if you are not in a hurry, take the scenic route up into the surrounding
hills and stop at the quiet, unpretentious and historic wineries where you will find no boutiques selling baseball caps, toe rings or bath salts!
Here we were at a winery tasting the 2015 roughly two minutes after filtering!
And the 2016 vintage did not look so bad, either!
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