Winery staff Daniel and Wendy happened to be teaming up on the Traminer hand-labeling task as we wandered through. Last but not least is the exciting step of adding the wax seal to the corks. When the wine is all ready to go, it moves upstairs and into the beckoning tasting glasses of the wineshop visitors. When you enter the wineshop you'll meet Laura, the wineshop manager . As you can see she was VERY pregnant when we were visiting in July '97, and she's now the beaming mother of a bouncing baby girl wineshop manager named Mason, born on August 19.
Lunch is served either in the wineshop or out on the shady balcony among the flower baskets.
No excuses here. Lunch was unforgettable. I had dried fruit bulgur salad with turkey sausage matched with Hainle's '95 Kerner. Ning started with a salad consisting of Sandra's home-grown exotic greens that was accompanied by freshly baked herb breads, followed by a fantastic chilled fruit soup, all garnished with edible borage flowers . Dessert was an eye-popping presentation of handcrafted ginger ice cream and a frothy cup of cappuccino.