Kings: Last Day with Muir Woods and Sonoma

We set out early this morning for a trip to Muir Woods and Sonoma. We decided to rent a car so we could go at our own pace/speed. We were perfectly set with breakfast in hand and the GPS set ready to roll. The trip was a lot easier than I ever expected. We drove about 30 minutes to Muir Woods. The only bad part of this trip as the windy roads up to Muir Woods. I was so car sick! We finally made it and took a little hike. These trees are amazing. I could not get over how big they are.

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We then headed to Sonoma to do a little wine tasting or smelling! :) Our first stop was at Imagery Winery. This is a sister winery to Benzinger and it was really neat. The neat thing is that they hire a new artist every year to create the wine label. It all has a Parthenon somewhere in the design. We enjoyed this stop and picked up a bottle of WOW OUI. Don't look for it locally because you can only purchase it at the winery. I think Zach might be more into the girl on the label than the taste! :)

After Imagery, we headed to Benzinger Family Winery for a good tour and tasting. This was so neat and very pretty. We had a tour of the grounds and got to learn a lot about bio dynamics in wine making. It is very intense and really makes you appreciate the price of a good wine. This bio dynamic mess is all about not using pesticides. Long story short, they make the ranch as close to natural as possible. Some man from Switzerland did a lot of studying to determine which plants to plant on the grounds to prevent the wrong pest and attract the right ones. So between every row of grapes is a row of random plants such as mustard. They say it really works! This Ranch also spent 4 million dollars to dig out a cave so they could store the barrels of wine in natural temps. It is so neat! If you ever go to Sonoma you must visit Benzinger!