The Sights In Addition To Sips Of Motherlode Country: Motor Touring In Addition To Vino Tasting Inwards The Sierra Foothills


We've got a lazy 24-hour interval to kill earlier nosotros crusade dorsum home. Waking upwards inward our room inward the Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort inward the mountains only eastward of the town of the same name, nosotros brand our agency over the the Casino diner, Margaret's Cafe.
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 The eatery is named afterward the fellow member of the Mi Wok tribe hither who was the driving forcefulness into developing this resort. The walls are lined amongst pictures of her.

After trying the buffet, nosotros constitute that the best nutrient is served here...not the buffet. And, yes, that is bacon covered pork chops only above.

Hunger sated, nosotros caput out on the road. Just a flake eastward upwards the road, nosotros detect this castle-like solid that has it's ain entertainment commons out front. No, Michael Jackson did non rising from the dead but an eccentric local millionaire, John Hertzig, built this for his ain amusement.

 Over the loma to the northward is Shenandoah Valley, only total of smashing wineries amongst vines dating dorsum to the Gold Rush. We've been hither many, many times in addition to today desire to endeavor a twain of novel wineries.

First upwards is Dobra Zimlja on the far eastern destination of Steiner Road. Using local grapes they brand big, heavy wines inward the Croation agency of its immigrant possessor Milan Matulich.

 The tasting room sits within of a vino cave dug into the hill. The friendly server pours us a rose that looks dark inward the bottle, "it lightens upwards inward the drinking glass when I pour it," she says when I inquire why they telephone telephone it a rose.

It does lighten upwards a flake to a nighttime royal but it is a lighter tasting rose.

Tasting is $5 but nosotros purchase a few bottles in addition to then the fee is waved. We pass a few moments at their pond (pictured at the transcend of this post) earlier moving on.

 Next door is the Charles Spinetta Winery.  In a to a greater extent than utilitarian cinder block setting, Spinetta pours deep reds in addition to sweetness wines surrounded past times artworks of nature.

 The sparkling rose in addition to chenin blanc is on sale in addition to then nosotros purchase a representative of that.

Last, nosotros halt at Story Wine where nosotros e'er endeavor to convey a picnic when we're upwards here.

The prices hither convey made a steep climb in addition to then nosotros only purchase a mutual frigidness bottle of rose to launder downward the sandwiches nosotros picked upwards at the casino earlier nosotros left.

It's been a whirlwind calendar week in addition to a one-half betwixt hither in addition to Placerville, in addition to then nosotros only pass our final eve chilling inward the hotel room, snacking amongst i of the bottles nosotros bought in addition to only relaxing. 

 Tomorrow is a long crusade home.

 Darryl Musick
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