Get This Girl a Wine Map (even if she can’t read it)
When I went over to a friend’s last night for a little wine, I brought with me a bottle of 2003 Concannon Petite Sirah. I was telling her how it was the first bottle of wine anyone in California gave me. At some random off-site tasting, I had a nice conversation with Jim from Concannon, and when he was leaving, handed me a bottle, much to my delight. (That was one sign I had made the right decision in moving to California.)
I had told him how when I came out to the area in December 2005, trying to find a job, I decided to drive to Concannon. I have always had a special place in my heart for Petite Sirah and they produced the first. Perhaps he felt sorry for me because I mentioned it somehow took me 2 hours to make the drive from Palo Alto to Livermore, which should have taken 1. Actually, it was on that trip that I finally accepted my fate as bad with directions. Maybe it was when I had to call and cancel my appointment at Ridge, after driving back and forth on Highway 9 several times, explaining “the map sections of standardized tests were always my lowest score.”
I’ve been saying how I’d like to get, instead of individual AVA’s on separate maps, one map of all the California wine regions. Not that I could use it to get anywhere, but so I can see where I’ve been and where I still need to go.
2003 Concannon Petite Sirah, CA wine map, getting lost
….Farley Walker
April 12th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Funny…I didn’t take your map-deficiency comment seriously when we were looking for the “right” road in the park the other day. Good thing I drove. But I think you did alright when we were actually on trail. Personally, have to “get into” the map to orientate myself.
Also, I am hoping that the two hours to Livermore involved traffic. You are too funny. That darn traffic made me late for a wedding at Wente a couple summers ago.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I’m in your boat. I’m terrible with maps and directions. I usually print out or write down step by step directions, otherwise I get lost easily.
April 14th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Alisha,
You should always take me seriously, which is difficult, cause I’m always funny. (insert laughter here)
Paul, Glad to know I’m not the only one.
April 14th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
My friends always say that I’m fine with maps as long as I don’t use them to navigate. I’m not here to give you a one-liner though, I’m here to ask if you want me to send you a wine map of the Canberra region so at least you have the right *kind* of map when you lose yourself.
April 15th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Gillian,
The answer is “Of course!” It always fun to dream about places you’d like to explore but can’t (whether it’s due to distance or bad sense of direction).