Lodi!Lodi!Lodi!

Am I happy to be in Lodi? You betcha!!! Xena didn't even seem to mind as we packed up this morning. I think she even wanted to leave Redding! We left about our standard 9:15 and were in Lodi by about 1:30. Super easy day on the road. We were set up in about 1/2 hour flat and headed to our first winery by 2:30.

 We went to Woodbridge Uncorked which does tastings for about 7 wineries that don't have thier own tasting rooms. Good stuff....all of it. I even liked the sparkling Pomegranite and the white blend. So here we are in this tasing room with the sweetest "bartender", another couple who lived about 1/2 hour from here and a single guy from Sacramento and we end up having the greatest time and good conversation with this group. It was a blast. The couple even invited us to thier house for dinner! How sweet is that! So different from Redding.

Woodbridge Uncorked

The Maley Zin....outstanding!

Even Jeff enjoyed his tasting. And because the 6 of us were so enjoying each others company, the "bartender" was very generous (if you know what I mean) and we all stayed a while having an extra "taste" or two!

Though we didn't take the other couple up on thier dinner offer, we were kind of hungry and in the mood to keep exploring Lodi so we found ourselves at another microbrew pub in downtown Lodi...

GREAT brew and great dinner. We can hardly wait to explore more wineries tommorrow. Plan was to be here 3 nights and days but....may be here longer. Everyone we met has just been so nice. We even scored a free beer glass from Lodi Beer Co. thanks to our wonderful waitress.

May have to go back to Woodbridge and get the "I Love Lodi" tee!!! Sitting outside now with my Maley Zin and husband. Clear skies, 80+ degrees at almost 9 p.m. LOVELY!!!