Porsches and Picnics

Every year on the third weekend of October, the wineries of Paso Robles host a Harvest Wine Tour.  For us, it is a pleasant break from the routines of crush, a chance to get together with friends and customers.  As usual, we fired up the coals and grilled some lamb ribs and duck breasts as appetizers.

We were joined on this warm October weekend by the Porsche Club of Loma Prieta.  It was pretty amazing to watch 22 pretty Porsches all pull up to the winery at one time.  Their full adventure was published in their ezine at http://lpr.pca.org/post/post-next.pdf.  (The HWT weekend coverage starts on page 24.)  They arrived at Dover Canyon around 2 pm and spread their blankets on the lawn for a quick lunch, which made them extremely popular with Rebel Rose.

 

Also in late October, lovely Siobhan, waitress extraordinaire at Hoppe's Bistro, celebrated her birthday at the winery.  They brought a picnic spread of delectable salads, homemade hummus, stuffed figs and other delights.  Dan McCraw, our Friday tasting room host, grilled up the remaining duck breasts and basked in the glory of being the only man at the picnic.  And of course Rebel Rose, far right, employed all her most endearing tricks, but decided she really didn't like hummus or stuffed figs.