Weddingbee Blog

I’m back from my birthday weekend rejuvenated! Don’t get me wrong–I’m still a bit overwhelmed by all the wedding-related odds & ends that seem to keep creeping up, but nonetheless, the Peppermints had an amazing weekend and can cross one thing off our wedding list: alcohol!

Here’s a pictorial recap of our wine tasting weekend…

Mr. Peppermint & I started the day off with a big (delicious!) breakfast at Paula’s Pancake House. Here I am outside the restaurant, chatting it up with Mama Peppermint:

Mr. Peppermint says hello…

From there, we dropped our stuff off at our hotel (Marriott Santa Ynez–very nice!), and headed to Sunstone & Kalyra. Below is Mr. Peppermint and me at the Kalyra winery. (If you saw Sideways, this is the winery that Sandra Oh’s character works at):

We had to take a break from wine tasting and get some food in our stomachs. So, we got sandwiches at Panino (in Los Olivos) before heading to Bridlewood, Firestone & Rusack.

Once we had tapped out on wine-tastings (okay, they actually closed at 5pm and we ran out of time!), we had a wonderful dinner at the Hitching Post. Once again, for you Sideways fans, this is where Virginia Madsen’s character (Maya) works…

The next morning we had a pow wow about which wines we liked best. After all, we needed a lot! We did two last wineries in the morning (Sanford & Alma Rosa), before going back to our favorites to buy some cases. Below is Alma Rosa…

We began our mad-dash wine spree going to a number of the different places and buying cases of wine. Here is Mr. Peppermint carting some our cases of wine to the car. I’ll be honest, we got some looks…

And that was our trip! Goodbye, Solvang (for now!)….