Dry Creek Valley by dburdick

Vue • Landscape • posted on Jun 04, 2005

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VUE 5I and PSP - To replentish my sorely depleted wine cellar, Victoria and I took a drive over to wine country last week. If you ever get to California wine country, don't go to Napa. Instead, drive north about 20 miles and visit Dry Creek Valley (stay in Healdsburg) -- much better price/performance for wine and it's not crawling with tourists. The winemakers are much more friendly and accomodating as well. I've been going to Dry Creek for about 20 years now and here are my five favorite wineries:

Rafanelli - Makes of the best Zinfandel in the world. Highly acclaimed but still a very small family-run winery (about 7,000 cases per year). Their Zin and Cab always make the top 100 in Wine Spectator and you can buy it only at the winery.

Rabbit Ridge - Incredible Super Tuscan blend called Aventura, one of my very favorites - you can only get this one at the winery.

F. Teldeschi Winery - Makers of one of the best Petite Syrah's in California, Yummy.

Armida - Decent wine but the Winery grounds are the best in Dry Creek Valley. Great picnic grounds and a Boche Ball court that overlooks the valley.

Michel-Schlumberger - Outstanding Cabs - as good as Caymus for one-third the price. Nice winery grounds as well.

By the way, the foreground fountain model is a Poser/Vue hybrid I created. The background image is a photo I took of Dry Creek Valley from the deck of Armida Winery.

Comments (13)

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prog

12:12AM | Sun, 05 June 2005

Incredible composite!!! This is really well done!! EXCELLENT work!!!

Collateral_Damage

2:09AM | Sun, 05 June 2005

Nice image and great job of blending 3d and alpha.

Amon-Sul

2:48AM | Sun, 05 June 2005

Thanks for the tipp not to go to Napa Valley:-) I like the wines of California, and its great that you did an Image around it here. Very good concept, excellently done!

kiddd7

3:11AM | Sun, 05 June 2005

Excellent presentation!! Love it!!

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