Wine Tasting

It's not all work on the farm.

We spent the afternoon wine tasting with our daughter, Heidi, and he boyfriend, Will. We met them at Appellation California at Avenue 7 and 99. (App Call is a wine tasting room where the smaller wine growers in Madera County can bring their wares. You can find them at www.appellationcalifornia.com ).

Fabulous afternoon. We sat out in the garden and enjoyed wine, cheese, crackers and each others companies. It has been a long week for most of us. We started with a Pinot Grigio blend from Mariposa Wine Company. Yummy. Heidi and Will brought some amazing cheeses. The Bravo Farms garlic cheese is a real treat.

We also found some Spanish chorizo at App Cal. A few years ago I found a recipe for Spanish chorizo and scallops. Since I couldn't find Spanish chorizo here I substituted with linguica. THat works very well. Dinner tonight will be scallops with our newly found Spanish chorizo, a salad and perhaps a little more wine.