A couple of years ago, my nephew and his lovely bride were to be married in Palo Alto, California and my wife and I were planning to attend. Naturally, I took a few extra of my vacation days to travel to “wine country” seeing that we were so close and June was a great time to be there. We had hit on the fact that we both really like the “Russian River Valley” pinot noirs and would like to visit wineries in that area around Santa Rosa and Healdsburg for a few days and really enjoy ourselves. Great idea!

Andrew and I discovered this fantastic Red at Biaggi’s in Cedar Rapids at a wine tasting last year. Cinnabar Mercury Rising is a Red blend bottled by Cinnabar Cellars in Paso Robles.
It seems that all of the decent restaurants in CR are carrying this wine: Biaggi’s, Teddy’s, Daniel Arthur’s. So, it’s pretty cool that I [...]