Swingin' Thru NorCal 10Jul17-12Jul17

We rolled into Berkeley in time for nice family dinner at Ken's with Steph & Craig and Ruth dropped by, and Ken with Gabi & JoJo, then Kala and me. Fail on my part to not get the pic for this event. Great couple of days of beer with Ken at Fieldhouse enjoying great IPAs & DIPAs there and elsewhere and golf at the renamed Berkeley CC - great viewpoints but a marine layer guarded downtown SF. Ken's New Zealand family are bound for a NorCal reunion and they were able to stop at the NZ Air club when leaving - the dominating Kiwi America's Cup team was also there with the spoils. We, the US, got our asses kicked 7-1 in this cool sailing race. The pic is the one with the cup... cool.

We moved upstate to Napa to visit Mike Jordan & Betsy Kerr, our good friends from our time in Boston. Of course there is wine. We hit Miner and Sinsky and really liked Miner's stuff. M&B had to pick up 5 cases of wine there as they hadn't visited in a while and are members - needless to say our tasting was comped. Tastiest were the Tempranillo and Rosella Pinot Noir and Emily Cab. They had cool venue with neat inlaid flooring and keen glassware. We learned a lot about the Santa Lucia Highlands. At Sinsky choosing was harder 'cause they weren't as good and staff was odder. Back at the roost the wine sherpas served us very well.

Great food in Port Costa at Bull Valley Roadhouse with the entire Kerr-Jordan clan. Kala & I were joined by Mike & Betsy of course and their spawn, Tyler Jordan with Vanessa and Lisa Kerr-Jordan with Julani Anderson and the spunky Mazi; we were joined too by Sarah, Betsy's 2nd cousin. That was of course after an afternoon of tasting from Cave Jordan.