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Caneros District.  Enough vines for ya?
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Sterling Winery in Calistoga.

Robert Mondavi Winery front entry court
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When swimming pools go bad...
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Old vinyard in front of St. Clement Winery

Domaine Carneros view from the balcony.
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Relaxing view of a Frog's Leap Winery vinyard

A nice shady ride back to St. Helena...

Nice bear...
This is at Robert Mondavi Vinyards.
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Rubicon Estate; formally the Niebaum-Coppola Winery
 
Looking down the hillside outside onto a vinyard at Mondavi's La Famiglia Winery.

Rutherford Hill cave entrance: This is hard to see but its one of the few caves in St. Helena.  French cave workers were brought in to create it.
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"2 Caps Lynda" hogging the wine...
 
Inside Niebaum-Coppola. This Tucker car was in Coppola's "Tucker - A Man and His Dream" movie.
 

Inside Niebaum-Coppola. This is Brando's desk from The Godfather (still wearing 2 caps...)

...just a small vinyard (mostly unplanted) nested into the hillside
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Nice little pond at Domain Carneros - Carneros District
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Had to have a "barrel shot"...  These are at Sterling Vineyards winery

Another shot looking at the hillside outside Mondavi's La Famiglia Winery in Oakville.
 
Domaine Carneros which is in the Caneros District.  This is supposed to be a copy of their French Winery in Europe. 

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