Napa Agenda

Our trip is just right around the corner!!! We leave Friday AM from Austin so we can fly direct on JetBlue and come home later afternoon on Monday. : ) I am soooo excited....of all of the places I have ever been Napa is BY FAR my favorite.

Here is our agenda so far: Friday Dinner at Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen (Cindy is the owner of Mustard's Grill -- she is like THE Napa Chef and has several restaurants in and around the area...this will be our first time trying this restaurant). Check out the menu -- doesn't this look so delicious for a cool and overcast weekend! http://www.cindysbackstreetkitchen.com/

Saturday we have a private sit-down tasting (never had one of these before) at Caymus www.caymus.com and dinner that night at Mustard's Grill (our favorite restaurant!!! -- we ate here for Dustin's birthday in 2005 when we visited San Francisco with my parents and again, when we went to Napa in 2006).

Sunday morning we have a tour and reserve sit-down tasting with a wine maker at Cakebread www.cakebread.com (Tonna don't worry we'll bring you back a bottle).

The rest of the trip we are just winging it -- going to more boutique vineyards and wineries....a little less mainstreamed and off of the beaten path of Highway 29. I hope we have time to visit Artesa, Hess, Stag's Leap, Franciscan, Beaulieu Vineyards (this wouldn't be a trip without Napa without visiting this GORGEOUS winery), Louis Martini, Benziger, Simi, Hall, Silver Oak, Murphy - Goode, Meeker.... If we visit all of these we will definitely need a cab (don't worry--we are very responsible).

CANNOT WAIT -- WE ARE ECSTATIC!!!!!!!