Wine-meandering

Early in our courtship, Josh and I made a joint New Year's resolution to learn more about wine. Little surprise that said resolution was one of the best kept ones in either of our histories.

One of our first steps was to become "passport holders" in the Santa Cruz Mountains Wine Club. Four times a year, wineries let passport holders in to taste for free. Plus, we get a nifty little passport with a map and separate pages for each winery. Once we get them all stamped we get a MYSTERY PRIZE!!!

You've probably gathered from other posts that both of us are highly motivated by things like: maps, progress logs, and so forth. Those little stamps are bizarrely successful in getting us out to spots we'd otherwise never know about.

We probably have about three more passport days to go before we can claim our prizes. In the meantime, we took a few hours this past Saturday to go visit some Gilroy area wineries.

We tasted some good (and just okay) wine, but only felt motivated to make an actual purchase at one winery (we tasted at four). However, we ALSO spent the afternoon in sunshine, which was somewhat discombobulating, after these past few weeks of extra-greyness in the East Bay.