Davero Wines and Sonoma beach fun

http://www.davero.com/

This is a website to check out and quite some place to visit.  All of the wines were perfect, and this place also has many other gourmet delights.  We spent a long time here and only visited this vineyard today because we felt like any other wine just could not compete with this experience.

While we were driving along the road to Davero we rode across a unique old bridge that is only open part of the year.  It is the bridge featured in this post.

 After we sampled wines at Davero we decided to come back to our little house and eat lunch.  Earlier in the day we had taken Sparta for a long walk along the same trail we walked a couple of days ago . . .this time we walked from the opposite end so we covered  some of the trail we had not seen before as we did not walk the whole trail the first time.  Strangely, the blackberries at this end of the trail were very sour so we didn't enjoy them as we had a few days earlier.

The most unassuming of tasting rooms . . . that is an olive tree in front

Their name is on the pumpkin but not on the building

View of the water from middle of old bridge

The old bridge that is only open part of the year . . . Jon said it looked like a New Zealand bridge

The treacherous path down to the beach

Yep, I'm encouraging Sparta to go in for a swim

What a climb to get down to the beach

Sparta and a romping buddy on the beach

This little fella wanted to get away from Sparta as quickly as he could

 With lunch still digesting we headed off for another adventure down winding roads to Blind Beach, a dog friendly Sonoma beach.  To get to the beach we had to climb down the side of a long cliff . . . . check out the pictures of this trail.  The ocean was gorgeous and Sparta had a lot of fun there.  This beach is near where we are going to be staying for the next 3 days in what they call the tree house.  We will be washing clothes and packing this evening.  For the next few days we are planning to do a lot of hiking and beach walking as we have already bought a great deal of Sonoma wine and need to leave room in the car for any great finds in Napa.  It will be good to break from tasting to hike for a few days anyway . . . we can only sample so much wine.