MONTEBELLO ROAD, CALIFORNIA (7:45 AM)
Awesome. No other way to describe it -- before work I combined two of my main hobbies, road cycling and wine (visually only, not taste-wise ...), by cycling with Greg and Ken up the 5 mile, 1,900 foot climb of Montebello Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains. While any ride in the Bay area is pretty darn good, this was extra special. We did it as part of a 40 mile ride this morning -- it was overcast in the flats leading up to Montebello and the fog turned pea-soup thick about one-third of the way up, just past Picchetti Winery, and continued that way until we broke the fogline above Ridge.
As the fog slowly burned off it was pure bliss, as you can see from the photos ... this goes on every day, no wonder the grapes turn out so good up there!
Wineries passed along the way:
Picchetti
Sunrise Winery
Fellom Ranch
Jimsomare (now growing grapes for Ridge)
Ridge
It's primarily Zinfandel and Cabernet country, so if interested in this slice of Cupertino wine country you can read a good article here.
That sounds like a great way to start the day!
Posted by:Chris Miley | July 23, 2005 at 02:27 AM