Sonoma Fall 2025

​We finally were able to get back north to Sonoma for wine tasting, choosing to go when it wasn’t raining (Veterans’ Day weekend).  After a lastminute change of travel plans six of our intrepid group made the flight up to Sacramento and the drive to Sonoma.  Our plan was to visit four specific wineries, two that we visited in March 2023 and two that Doc Ed highly recommended.  As it turned out, the four were so good that we only had time to visit one additional winery (of which I will say no more about because it was a complete dud – awful wine!).
All turned out well until we headed home on that Sunday.  About halfway on our drive from Sonoma to the Sacramento Airport, we all got text messages from Southwest Airlines that our flight had been cancelled.  In fact, all flights out of Sacramento had been cancelled.  The earliest we could get back to San Diego by plane was Monday afternoon.  You see, because of the ongoing government shutdown flight controllers there were not enough flight controllers….  Fortunately, we contacted the rental car company and they were ok with us dropping off the car in San Diego – for a small fee, of course.  As some of us had to work the next day we drove to San Diego that night, a long and rather tiring drive to say the least.  (For my New Jersey relatives, this is equivalent to driving from New Jersey to North Carolina, except that our trip included driving the Grapevine – a winding mountain highway just north of Los Angeles – in the middle of the night).
On the plus side, Sonoma was quite beautiful, so I’ll end this post with pictures taken of a bridge and the nearby woods as well as the city Santa Rosa, with the reviews of the four good Sonoma wineries to follow.