The final ten days of My Ultimate Global Adventure will weave through Napa, Sonoma, Russian River and similar points north of Vacaville and south of Mendocino at various wine tastings. This all started yesterday at the Vacaville Fiesta in celebration of Cinco de Mayo, and here is some of the wildlife:
For $15 you could have 10 wines or five bottles of beer. We had both, repeated, with dinner at Los Reyes. Here, Kenji, the leader of the safari, pondering which bottle to drink:
The food was was also fine:
The seven, plus me, taking this photo:
Thus far, our safari has featured margarita, martini and red wine days...while on the course. Then, as above, to work out the winnings/losses, we have a greater variety of imbibibles. Upcoming, single malt scotch tomorrow and the best of vodka on Tuesday.
But, to initiate the Ultimate Wine Summary. Let me start with wine bottles (click on this link for a spotlight on the the ultimate wine region in the USA--where I will be visiting during this ten day period):
From the top:
Split or 187.5 ml or quarter bottle / half bottle or 375 ml /
bottle or 750 ml / Magnum or 1.5 liters / Jeroboam or 4 bottles/
Double Magnum or 4 bottles (yes, same) / Rehoboam or 6 bottles
Bottom half:
Methusalem or 8 bottles / Imperial or 8 bottles (yes, again, same) /
Salamanazar or 12 bottles / Balthazar or 16 bottles /
Nebuchadnezzar or 20 bottles
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