This was a trip so epic, that it took a year to digest and to prepare the story-telling...that's the story I'm stickin' to anyway!
Pops & I have taken many a wine trip together over the years, this was the sixth, in fact. Each one has been in a different appellation or sub-appellation around
NorCal. Following my
pre-WBC09 Twisted Murphys visit with some other
vinopanions in crime, I decided that Pops and I needed to definitely take over
Murphys and its
Calaveras County wine
country for our upcoming trip later that year.
I spoke a lot in that
earlier Murphys post about the exciting, up and coming aspects of the Calaveras County wine region and how it has already reached at least the wine crafting quality of it's larger and surrounding appellation of the Sierra Foothills and is coming into its own as a true wine destination. Murphys, the
historic Gold Rush and logging town, has completely reinvented itself as a more boutique, yet still nicely rustic
wine and
food mecca, tucked underneath the stunning
Sierras and
Calaveras Bigtree National Forest. Pops and I decided that we needed to dig a bit deeper this time and really get to know this comfortable piece of wilder wine country.
So as it turns out, New York is a pretty damn cool place! My first time in NYC was filled with as much sightseeing, vino networking, shopping, eating and drinking as one could possibly fit into 3.5 days. I was in the city for the first time on another adventure as Le Wine Buff for the Bordeaux Wine Council (CIVB)'s Enjoy Bordeaux campaign, on a fully paid business trip. While the point of the trip was to attend the Snooth & Ziff Davis TechEnology event and talk about the full awesomeness of affordable Bordeaux wine alongside my LWB colleagues, I was determined to experience as much NYC as I could handle...and I succeeded. 
