Comments on: Wineroad 2008 http://www.gmtech.net/2009/01/19/wineroad-2008 Our little slice of the world wide web Mon, 10 May 2010 16:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Linda Palmer http://www.gmtech.net/2009/01/19/wineroad-2008/comment-page-1#comment-39 Linda Palmer Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:05:59 +0000 http://www.gmtech.net/wordpress/?p=166#comment-39 Guyle, Did Dan tell you that we used to live within walking distance of Simi Winery? I was born in Sebastopol and raised my kids in Windsor/Healdsburg. We've been to all those wineries, too. Both my sons make wine and my daughter-in-law works for Francis Ford Copola's winery in Healdsburg/Geyserville. Dan and I were married at the Trentadue Winery in Geyserville. I went to school with a lot of the winery owner's kids. Guyle,
Did Dan tell you that we used to live within walking distance of Simi Winery? I was born in Sebastopol and raised my kids in Windsor/Healdsburg. We’ve been to all those wineries, too. Both my sons make wine and my daughter-in-law works for Francis Ford Copola’s winery in Healdsburg/Geyserville. Dan and I were married at the Trentadue Winery in Geyserville. I went to school with a lot of the winery owner’s kids.

]]> By: Stephen Lee http://www.gmtech.net/2009/01/19/wineroad-2008/comment-page-1#comment-12 Stephen Lee Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:48:30 +0000 http://www.gmtech.net/wordpress/?p=166#comment-12 Hey Guyle, I hope you are felling well and doing OK. Dry Creek Valley is awesome. Just a bit of info for you. I lived on Rafanelli Winery '88-'89 off of West Dry Creek Rd with a former girl friend. There's a little house built in 1893 right in front of the winery which we lived. The only heat was a small wood burning stove. It was great to come home after a days work and sit out on the porch and eat dinner over looking Cry Creek Vineyards. One time we had a party there and one of our guests backed over one of the Old Zin vines. It was $300 back in '89 to replace! Down the road is Raymond Burr - also used to raise Orchids. Back in 1997, my roommate from SSU was a guy named George Mara who was the emperor of Fiji's son, Ratu Mara. Raymond Burr was a close family friend and owned several of the Fijian Islands. When we need furniture for our apt. we went to see Raymond and he lent us a couch, chair and dinning room table. He was a huge man at 6'5" and as big around as he was tall. Because George was in Fiji when I had to pick out our apt., Raymond signed a check for George's part of the deposit/1st months rent. My father still has the cashed check with Raymond Burr's name on it. Be well, Stephen Hey Guyle,

I hope you are felling well and doing OK.

Dry Creek Valley is awesome. Just a bit of info for you. I lived on Rafanelli Winery ’88-’89 off of West Dry Creek Rd with a former girl friend. There’s a little house built in 1893 right in front of the winery which we lived. The only heat was a small wood burning stove. It was great to come home after a days work and sit out on the porch and eat dinner over looking Cry Creek Vineyards. One time we had a party there and one of our guests backed over one of the Old Zin vines. It was $300 back in ’89 to replace!

Down the road is Raymond Burr – also used to raise Orchids. Back in 1997, my roommate from SSU was a guy named George Mara who was the emperor of Fiji’s son, Ratu Mara. Raymond Burr was a close family friend and owned several of the Fijian Islands. When we need furniture for our apt. we went to see Raymond and he lent us a couch, chair and dinning room table.

He was a huge man at 6’5″ and as big around as he was tall. Because George was in Fiji when I had to pick out our apt., Raymond signed a check for George’s part of the deposit/1st months rent. My father still has the cashed check with Raymond Burr’s name on it.

Be well,
Stephen

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