Summer is here!!

Like most of everyone summer signifies outdoor activities, al fresco dining, picnics and hopefully some vacation time. Eating very seasonally awesome foods and possibly fresh goodies from the garden, yours or others. Lazy days reading, camping or road tripping. Summer to me means fun in the sun and chilled wines.

For us it's not quite that easy to take time off. We can't just pack up and go, we have a business to run. And with harvest looming, Mat is already visiting vineyards and scoping out the situation. Bottling is also typically mid August to clear the cellar of barrels.

                But we definitely get into the summer foods, grilling, corn on the cob, tomatoes....

The week of  July 4th, we celebrated a friends birthday request of fried chicken. This is usually made once a year using the Thomas Keller, Adhoc cookbook recipe, a lot of work but super yummy!

                                                        Pool shenanigans, backyard chilling.

      

And our Annual Backyard BBQ is always a winner!

Mat's favorite foods to prepare family style

We pulled out a 5 liter library bottle for the event. Only one of each single vineyard bottled per vintage from 2009 - 2016. This 2010 Horseshoe Bend Pinot was a hit. Perfect for a big crowd of our wine family!

                                              

      

And after all the flavors of summer BBQ are consumed, we continue the Jenga competition tradition!

Summer is truly the best!!!

Next up....

                            Annual Library Tasting happened the weekend of July 26/ 27th

cheers