We are enjoying the second official day of our honeymoon and took the opportunity to visit Schramsberg (http://www.schramsberg.com/) in Calistoga this afternoon. Schramsberg primarily produces sparkling wine, and we learned a lot about the production process during the cave tour. The sparkling wines are stored in hand-dug caves and are hand riddled (the turning process to get the yeast setiment into the cap so it can be removed before final corking)--talk about a labor-intensive job!We tasted 6 wines and ended up buying a dessert wine: a Cremant Demi-Sec. Very yummy!
I think I captured some cool pictures of the racks of bottles in the cave as well as the frog pond on the property, which I'll post next week.
Our cottage in Calistoga is very cute. More about that tomorrow.
(Updated 10/27/09 to include photos from Schramsberg.)
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