Of Halloween and Harvest
Food-and-wine pairing, a lesson in terroir and vampires as night-time picking crew
Posted: Oct 30, 2009 12:00am ET
I escaped the vineyards and winery and spent the last two days visiting retail and restaurant accounts in Sacramento, the capital of California and a beautiful city. Great food transforms wine, and winemakers make every effort to put their wines into the best restaurants, so I had some great dining experiences there. I left Sacramento late last night and got home early this
morning. The nocturnal business of night picking makes unusual schedules and
night travel a little easier at this time of year. But maybe it's just that the
habits of the vampires on our nighttime picking crew are rubbing off on me?
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