Thursday November 25, 2010

We awoke to the reality of Turkey Day in the USA. No restaurants open, no stores open and no wineries open in wine country. Poor planning on our part! We managed to get breakfast at our hotel and started working on locating a restaurant for supper. Luckily there were four open in town and we nailed down a reservation early.

The temperature this morning was 20F but warmed to the low 50's as the sun started to rise. We went for a bit of a walk along the dry creek in Paso Robles. After several phone calls, we found our first winery that was open for a few hours for tasting. We went to Toben James Winery and had a great time sampling about a dozen wines. We met the owner who autographed our purchase.



Our next stop was at Falcon Nest where I think we were the only visitors of the day. A couple of nice reds in a farm setting complete with pet peacocks and a very talkative owner!


The Falcon Nest lady called around and found a couple of other wineries that were open. F/S Winery was in an industrial mall and again we were on our own with a tatooed and body pierced host. Wines were OK.


We figured we had enough wine sampling for the day and decided to do a bit of a back road tour, really interesting countryside and very different colours than Sonoma.


We retreated to the hotel and watched some football then went for supper at a restaurant in the town square. It looked like just about everyone in town was at home enjoying the Thanksgiving Holiday and getting rested up for power shopping on Black Friday.