Russian River Valley - California

Nova [Music] are you ready to go get Pliny and some wine and Sonoma okay all right there you go good girl good job Nova let's go let's go so this weekend we headed north across the bridge to the Russian River Brewing Company to taste their Planet the younger beer that they released for two weeks out of the year and we made a weekend out of it with our dog we stayed in the Russian River Valley wine region which is right next to Napa Valley Sonoma County and here is some of the stuff we did [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] Badger Park close to downtown Healdsburg and we're going to take Nova on a little walk hopefully along the Russian River this is just little Green Space over here playground community garden and then I think the trail up here goes towards Rush River [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] walk after we got back up from the river now we're gonna head back towards Badger Park and I think to Riverfront Regional Park to have a picnic [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] we are in Riverfront Regional Park which has a little Redwood Grove and a nice dog friendly Lake Loop so we have the picnic stuff and we're walking to just find a spot to set up and eat our sandwiches with the fresh bread we got from the quail and Condor bakery Healdsburg [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] one thing I do like about this park is the diversity of Landscapes they got redwoods they got Lakes and then they also have grapevines we're back to the parking lot gonna head out to macrosty Vineyards [Music] [Music] all right we are at mccrosty Vineyards and we're gonna do a wine tasting with the dog we just got done with our little picnic at Riverfront Regional and it is very pretty the ride into the winery is very picturesque lots of rolling Vineyards and dog friendly we're doing a little wine tasting so go inside check it out [Music] [Music] this is our little tasting spot they do a signature tasting and an exclusively red we obviously went with this one but the guy gave us a starter with a Chardonnay to begin with but they also welcome you with the sparkling brute Rose as you walk in the door so it's very nice very awesome views even though it's a little cool they got the uh here going for us so it's very very nice [Music] thank you [Music] okay [Music] [Music] all right so we are at Backus landing and we stopped into Aldina I think um The Winery tasting room in here and we got the rose of Cabernet and it is just a slightly richer Rose of Cabernet which you don't see too often so we are waiting for a pizza that we ordered because um we're adults and we can eat pizza whenever we want to even three o'clock in the afternoon when we're gonna eat dinner not too long in the future [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay [Music] to the midnight okay there he goes yes that was so good can you chew and save her [Music] [Applause] all right [Music] chocolate chip cookies [Music] foreign [Music] we just finished dinner at the Healdsburg Bar and Grill in downtown Healdsburg and then I got some ice cream snacks at the noble folk which is like right down the way um pretty good no fuss food and quick seating at the Healdsburg Bar and Grill and that's kind of all we were looking for and then the ice cream is really good so we're gonna head back to the hotel and uh sleep and get ready for Planet the younger tomorrow morning at Russian River Brewing [Music] Saturday morning and it's about 8 30. so we're gonna go grab some coffee at one of the coffee shops around Healdsburg and then we're gonna go sit in line for beer at Russian River [Music] we're all hooked up playing coffee see how it is like a local place and now we're gonna head to go wait in line and hope that the line's not around the building but we'll see [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] in the morning on Sunday first weekend they do Pliny not that bad pretty much how it was last year so we'll probably get in pretty soon after they open all right this is the setup here chair chair coffee and waiting [Music] okay so now it's 11. morning and you can see that the we started like back here and they've let enough people in we're actually up near that first tent up there so not that bad today so you get a wristband that has three tabs for three pours applying to the younger and then B for two bottles per person all right we own dick next in line foreign [Music] all right so we sat down we got our pores we got fish tacos fries and these sliders are amazing foreign Y is delicious it's triple dry hop this year 625 for a 10 ounce pour and it's great quadruple [Music] you can see the line still yeah it just got out of here out of Russian River Brewing we got our Pliny the younger's it was really good I'd say kind of like last year it's a very hard to taste the higher 10 alcohol that's pretty much it now we head back down to the Bay Area and it's been a nice little little weekend here damn back home [Music] thank you

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Length: 16min 20sec (980 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 05 2023