Wine Country Has Gone To The Dogs

This is an actual book with real recipes for making yummy biscuits and such for your favorite canine. There is nothing really wrong with that whole concept, except I found this in the Tobin James wine tasting room, which is this huge 10 million dollar building near Paso Robles. I guess that after tasting the list at the winery people may be just enough impaired to plunk down the $25 or so for their favorite cousin in Tucson with the new puppy and wrap it in a box made for fine wines, then ship it off as a surprise. But, having not sampled enough wine to become impaired, and not being too foolish, I just could not go that far.

I did, however, get Julie in the act of pretending to be a wine drinker. The Grey Goose was back in the hotel and this was the nearest alternative. We actually had a great day today, despite the cool and showery weather, driving around the wine country here. By no means was it what some would call "hubbubish" here, as the wintery weahter has kept the crowds thinned out. There are 85 wineries with tasting rooms in the area and we sampled just a few.