Sonoma County Carneros Rainbow

Yesterday evening (January 26th) after completing some business totally unrelated to wine in sunny Sacramento, I decided to make my way to San Francisco via Sonoma.

My intention was to pick up a few items at Sonoma Market before settling into the Holiday Inn where the food and wine choices are, let's face it, scant. My layover in San Francisco was to attend the ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates & Producers) annual trade tasting on January 27th.

There was just a little break in the clouds right as the sun was low in the sky, and suddenly in front of Nicholson Ranch's Visitor Center a big rainbow appeared. My Taurus rental car veered into the parking lot and I was forced to snap off a few pictures. Apparently this phenomenon is common in Carneros, but my being in Carneros is not. And this year January has been dry.

Nicholson is a Pinot Noir producer, and the tasting room was busy at the time of the rainbow, although it seems I was the only one impressed by it. That wine must be pretty good.

Comments

[farley]

Beautiful! All I can see out of our tasting room window right now is fog and more fog...

[Ml]

What beautiful pictures!