I've been thinking about vintage-looking bar carts lately as a way to serve beverages during a party without crowding the kitchen counter bar. Eventually, I'd love to find a beautiful, mid-century sideboard, but in the meantime, a bar cart like this one would work perfectly. I've been casually searching craigslist and local vintage shops for a good candidate.


[1. Restoration Hardware]

We arrived in Napa to catch the last of the harvest and crush.

The intoxicating sweet purple scent still lingered in the air as

we drove through the fields of vines with the windows down

and the music up.

[3. Wing Canyon]

Today we visited Robert Sinskey Vineyards, for a cellar tour of the vineyard. Robert Sinskey's vineyards are organic and biodynamic--they grow all of the fruit on-site so that they are in control of the grapes at every stage of the process. They refuse to use pesticides and instead grow ground cover pants to provide the optimal environment for the vines. Instead of hauling out lawnmowers to tend to the wild grasses, they let their sheep do all of the work.

As I may have mentioned before, their wine is delicious--on our visit we tried the 08 Abraxas (a tart and playful white made of 4 grapes: Pinot Blanc, Riesling, Pinot Grigio, and Gewürtztraminer); the 05 Vandal Valley Pinot Noir, the 06 Carneros Pinot Noir, the 05 Vandal Vineyard Cabernet Franc, and an 05 Marcien.

More to come.