Because another wine food and travel blog was way too long.
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Vineyard Tours – A Great Way to Appreciate WineNow that Comcast has restored my internet connection to full speed, I’m able to access AWB! Although most of my contributions will continue to be photography, I’ll add an article every now and then, mainly focusing on wine “education.” I am one of those geeks who thinks every vacation should also include an “educational experience.” That’s probably due to growing up in a home with a school teacher Mom and a school principal Dad. Luckily, my husband likes to indulge me in these, or perhaps humor me, by going along.
Benziger uses a tram for its tour, and while we waited with other guests, I took the time to stop and smell the roses — literally. Like many of the wineries we visited in Sonoma, Benziger has beautiful flowers, including sunflowers.
We then boarded the tram, to travel through the vineyards with our entertaining tour guide (whose name now escapes me). Along the way, we stopped to look at a model, while our fine host explained Benziger’s organic and biodynamic faming practices. Appealing to my science-geek side, a really cool science-class type model morphed out of the ground like the batmobile when it goes from auto to marine! This is the point in the tour where our guide instructs guests in the proper responses of “Ooooh!” and “Ahhh!”
Here’s what Benziger says about it’s farming practices:
After winding its way through the vineyard, the tram tour ends at the barrel caves (bring a sweater for those not ready for the underground “air-conditioning”). Then tourists walk from the caves to the stainless steel fermentation tanks, where our tour guide explains the process that takes the farmed grapes and turns them into a tasty beverage!
Tourists walk from the tanks to the outside tasting area to sample the most recently bottled white wine. And just like most tours, the final destination invites guests into the advanced tasting and “retail area” where for a small fee, guests can enjoy additional offerings, purchase some wine to ship home, and pick up some Beringer Family Winery “swag” as well.
The next time you’re visiting Wine Country, make sure you enjoy of the educational vineyard tours. If for nothing else, it will give you some “down time” between tastings, to give your metabolism a chance to catch up. 
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October 20th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Vineyard Tours – A Great Way to Appreciate Wine | another wine blog…
A review and photo journal of the vineyard tour of Benziger Winery. Benziger uses biodynamic growing techniques and their tour is fun and educational….
October 21st, 2008 at 7:34 am
Interesting article…makes one want to go. Love th picture through the wine glass.
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:22 am
Wonderful article. This reminded me very much of a wine tour we did in Sonoma almost ten years ago. Seeing the entire set up of the wine making, storing, etc. apparatus gives one a whole new appreciation for what goes into this most wonderful of beverages.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Thanks! I like that picture as well. Interestingly enough, I really didn't think about wine that much before I started learning about it!
October 24th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Thanks. Lucky for me, I was able to combine an ABA Convention (aka “Annual Meeting”) with a side trip to Sonoma. San Francisco is a great venue for a law conference!
February 25th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
I've never thought that vineyard tour will bring you to a wine tour. That's very interesting.
February 27th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
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Chris Oggenfuss from Benziger Family Winery talks about his work with Benziger and Imagery Estate Winery.
February 27th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
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Chris Oggenfuss from Benziger Family Winery talks about his work with Benziger and Imagery Estate Winery.
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