Fred Sandsmark's Blog

My friend Peter Fish's monthly Western Wanderings offering in the November 2006 of Sunset magazine (arriving in your mailboxes about now) talks about the true father of California wine, Agoston Haraszthy. Peter does his ususal wonderful job of illuminating a little known bit of Western history or geography in the article, which is accompanied by a picture of the author standing in a vineyard in front of Haraszthy's Sonoma home (which was modeled on a Pompeiian village). I snapped the photo when Peter and I did a day trip to Sonoma on August 16. The trip also included a visit to a number of wineries for a Sunset book that Peter is co-authoring with Sunset wine editor Sara Schneider, and a visit to the new Petit Maisons run by the girl & the fig. Where's my photo credit, Peter?

(When the article's live online, I'll link to it.)