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SONOMA VALLEY | WINE COUNTRY THIS WEEKWinemakers from both Larson Family Winery (www.larsonfamilywinery.com)and Meadowcroft Family of Wines (www.meadowcroftwines.com) will be on hand at the newly opened Roots InSonoma (www.rootsinsonoma.com) tasting room to pour and discusstheir wines and signing bottles. Tom Meadowcroft, winemaker andowner of Meadowcroft Family of Wines, will be in the tasting roomon Saturday, June 19 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Carolyn Craig, winemakerat Larson Family Winery will be in on Sunday, June 20 alsofrom 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.The Roots In Sonoma tasting room is located at 23574 ArnoldDrive in the CornerStone Sonoma complex. The property includesworld class gardens, a gourmet café, art galleries and cutting-edgedesign shops all set among acres of vineyards.Roots In Sonoma features more than 20 wines from Meadowcroftand Larson. Tom Meadowcroft creates the wines for his four labels:Meadowcroft, Magito, Thomas Henry and Sumptuary. Larson Familywinemaker Carolyn Craig has created two new labels exclusively forthe Roots In Sonoma tasting room: Friendship Road and Roots.Additionally, she makes Larson Family and Millerick Road winesavailable at the Larson Family Winery tasting room on MillerickRoad in Sonoma.Tom Meadowcroft has been working in the wine industry formore than 15 years first with wine growing legend Ric Forman whoowned Forman Vineyards and was the founding winemaker at SterlingVineyards and Newton Winery. He later joined Buckland VineyardManagement, starting in the trenches running the crews andthen on to designing, planting and managing fields and workingwith the winemakers at Cakebread, Duckhorn, Robert Mondavi,52Winemakers Tom Meadowcroft and Carolyn CraigMeet the Winemakers at Roots in SonomaOpus One, Stags Leap and others. Branching out on his own, his firstvintage was the 2004 Meadowcroft Mt. Veeder Napa Valley EstateGrown Cabernet Sauvignon. His wines have received numerousawards and medals at wine competitions throughout the world.Carolyn Craig graduated from Cal Poly in 2003 with a degree inAgribusiness and a minor in Wine and Viticulture. She joinedLarson Family Winery in August of that year as a lab tech,becoming assistant winemaker the following year. In 2006, shewas named Winemaker and became responsible for all phases ofproduction at the 3,000-case Sonoma winery producing awardwinningwines; nine varietalsand three blends. The CaliforniaState Fair named her 2005Cabernet Sauvignon the Best ofCalifornia. She continues toamass awards at various competitionseach year.The Roots In Sonoma tastingroom is open daily from 11 a.m.to 6 p.m. The venue is also availablefor private parties, privatetastings, wine dinners and otherevents. With plenty of freeparking at CornerStone Sonoma,(www.cornerstonesonoma.com)the area is a perfect setting forany type of event, both indoorsor outdoors.www.WineCountryThisWeek.com