Never Merlot!
A week ago my wife had the day off, and I didn't, and she went wine tasting with a former coworker left over from the wedding a couple days earlier. I could tell you stories of that day off... if I had been there or if Connie remembered any, but all I have are the photos she took. Thankfully, they're not as blurry as she was.
I don't know where she took this shot. It was at one of the four wineries they visited in Healdsburg and Sonoma. Why would a winery have a hog statue out front? Was it a swinery? Do they put the pork in cork? Do you take a swig with the pig? I don't know. What wine goes with pork, anyway? It's probably safe to say their wine isn't kosher for Passover.
Blog Tag: Chatter Blog Tag: Images
Posted 5/16/2005 11:58:00 PM
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On 5/17/2005 11:03 AM, 
Melissa said...
On 5/19/2005 4:22 PM, Mary said...
On 5/19/2005 4:41 PM, dkgoodman said...
3 Comments:
Perhaps pigs are what the winery uses to crush the grapes. Or, maybe the winery is warning people not to behave like hogs with the free samples. Could the statue be left over from a previous owner? Perhaps a hog ranch? Or, could the statue be their way of saying that their wine is only fit for pigs? If I owned the winery, I would re-think the pig statue. :)
I was going to e-mail my mother-in-law (the Napa/Sonoma winery expert) and ask her where the pig lives, but instead I just googled. I'm not certain, but perhaps this pig lives outside the La Charcuterie Restaurant in Healdsburg? This site called it "pig infested" and says the restaurant also has a pig museum. Uh, ok. And I found this article about the owner.
Well, it's a shot.
Pass me some Cabernet. ;)
I found a map to the wine country that they used, where they had circled the four (4!) wineries they planned to visit. With that, and Google, and the bottle I found in our wine cabinet, I figured it out. It's the Ferrari-Carano winery. She must have liked the sample... she bought a bottle of their wine. Villa Fiore.
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