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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
WINE COUNTRY THIS WEEK | SONOMA VALLEYCharles Creek Vineyard Presents Photography ExhibitA new exhibition of brilliant, panoramic works by local photographerRic Miller is now showing at the Charles Creek Vineyard TastingRoom and Gallery in downtown Sonoma. The show will run fromthrough July 17th, 2010. The show is on view daily from 11 a.m. to 6p.m. and the public is invited to sip award-winning Charles Creekvintages while enjoying the colorful photographs.Ric Miller, a Sausalito floating home denizen since 1994 expressesa passion in his panoramic landscape photographs. These imagesallow you to “step inside” the captured, vibrant scenes and relive themoment in time. “I shoot very wide angle photographs to closelyapproximate an expression of visual reality.” In turn, this creates atension between the strange and the familiar in our lives.The collection consists of scenes of California landscapes includingthe eclectic Sausalito floating home community, California winecountry, the wild Pacific coastline, California wildflowers, the Sierras,and the deserts of the southwest. These high resolution panoramicimages are a series of 12-16 individual photographs meticulouslyseamed via computer and printed on fine art paper or canvas. Theprinting process is referred to as “giclée”. The artwork surpasses ordinaryphotographs in clarity, beauty and longevity.The Charles Creek Vineyard Tasting Room and Gallery, open sevendays a week from 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., is located at 483 First St. West, onthe historic Plaza in downtown Sonoma. For more information, call(707) 935-3848 or email alan@charlescreek.com.Sugarloaf Ridge, Ric MillerSonomaEnotecaWINE TASTING, SALES& HOME ACCESSORIES– 12 Wineries –One Great Place35 East Napa Street, Sonoma(707) 935-1200www.sonoma-enoteca.com125th STREET WESTTOSANTA ROSA2nd STREET WESTRocheWEST SPAIN STREETCHARLESCREEKVINEYARDSWEST NAPA STREETS O N O M AP L A Z A1st STREET WESTROESSLERMcDONNELMAPLEANDRIEUXLEVERONI ROADThe PlazaCellar DoorWestwoodThe CaveBROADWAY12SONOMAFRANCENAPA ROAD1st STREET EASTENOTECASONOMA WINEHARDWAREMissionSan Franciscode SolanoEAST SPAIN STREETSonoma Wine ShopMERCATONot To ScaleSEBASTIANIVINEYARDS& WINERYLEDSON HOTEL &HARMONY LOUNGEHighway 12 WineryEric K JamesEnotecaSojourn CellarsEAST NAPA EAST STREET NAPA STREET4th STREET EASTTONAPAwww.WineCountryThisWeek.com53
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