{"id":9517,"date":"2012-07-31T11:36:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/?p=9517"},"modified":"2019-10-06T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T20:46:42","slug":"wine-tasting-napa-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wine-tasting-napa-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine Tasting: Napa Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galavanting around Napa visiting different wineries and sampling lots of fabulous varietals is basically one of my favorite pastimes.<\/p>\n<p>I hopped up to Napa quite a bit when I lived in the Bay Area, and now I don&#8217;t get up there nearly enough. But trust me, when i&#8217;m there, I LOVE it!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9525\" title=\"Round Pond Estate\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-Pond-Estate-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wine tasting is just plain fun. Grab a group of your closest friends and hit the road! Book a wine tour bus so you don&#8217;t have to worry about driving, throw on a cute bright and cheerful outfit and hit the road.<\/p>\n<p>This past time I was in Napa, I was fortunate enough to visit 3 amazing wineries. They were each fascinating, but one of my favorites was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roundpond.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Round Pond<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9518\" title=\"Round Pond Napa Valley\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-Pond-Napa-Valley-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Round Pond is a gorgeous winery with a big fabulous estate in the middle. They do by appointment wine tastings and even better, olive oil tasting! Say what? Genius right? The group and I went for lunch and had the opportunity to sample numerous wines, a handful of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roundpond.com\/olive-oils\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">olive oils<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roundpond.com\/red-wine-vinegars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handmade vinegars<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roundpond.com\/citrus-syrups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citrus infused syrups<\/a> that would make you beg for more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9522\" title=\"Round Pond Lunch Napa\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-Pond-Lunch-Napa-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"717\" height=\"477\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was the picture perfect winery. Lunch was a bed of fresh grown greens from the Round Pond farm, topped with various vegetables, cold cuts, cheese and then I made a vinaigrette out of their meyer lemon olive oil and their signature Red Wine Vinegar.\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9520\" title=\"Round Pond Olive Oil\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-Pond-Olive-Oil--682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"819\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was light, simple and perfect. A great compliment to our wines. And then it was all tied up with a perfect piece of cake drizzled with a combination of their house made syrups. Heck yes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to take my girlfriends back for a fun girls weekend. Or my soon to be husband! But trust me when I tell ya, this is one winery that is not to be missed while you are in Napa!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9524\" title=\"Round Pond Vineyards\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-content\/uploads\/Round-Pond-Vineyards-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"789\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galavanting around Napa visiting different wineries and sampling lots of fabulous varietals is basically one of my favorite pastimes. I hopped up to Napa quite a bit when I lived in the Bay Area, and now I don&#8217;t get up there nearly enough. But trust me, when i&#8217;m there, I LOVE it!! \u00a0 Wine tasting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wine-tasting-napa-valley\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from Wine Tasting: Napa Valley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":""},"categories":[1278],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.whatsgabycooking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Round-Pond-Napa-Valley.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37020,"href":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions\/37020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.afterhoursagency.com\/wgc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}