The shore is really only the icing on the seductive, if eccentric, home-baked cake that is Mendocino.
The inland sky above Boonville is powder-blue as I enter the Mendocino Fairgrounds for the annual Floyd R.
Actually, the builder is a perfectly nice 23-year-old waiter from Mendocino, Calif. named Erin Hemmings.
Edell wound up constructing a 600-square-foot library in his Mendocino County, Calif. home to house his collection.
Much closer to home, the company closed on a sizable purchase in the Pine Mountain-Cloverdale Peak appellation of California's Mendocino County.
Travellers who want to create a wine-tasting-and-salmon-spawning tour should head to portions of the Russian River in Sonoma and the Navarro River in Mendocino in the fall.
The foghorn on the Mendocino headlands moaned through the night like a lovelorn elk, the only clue to what lay outside my windows at the Albion River Inn.
He bought 2, 000 acres of redwood timber in Mendocino this year.
It's hard to overstate Burt Williams's influence: Since its creation, Williams Selyem has been the mother ship of Sonoma Pinot Noir and, more recently, of Mendocino Pinot training and spinning off several generations of winemakers.
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City winemakers pride themselves on their relationships with expert growers, from the Napa and Russian River Valley, to the Mendocino Coast, all the way down to the wine growing regions around the towns of Paso Robles and Santa Barbara.
By the Mendocino County line you are surrounded by tan, wide-open cowboy country, which gives way to the gentle green vineyards of Anderson Valley, then to dark corridors of redwoods, with shafts of sunshine piercing the gloom like smoky spotlights.
It is hard to believe in retrospect what happened 40 years ago, when an unprecedented 18 new wineries opened, primarily in Napa, though some of these pioneers found similarly excellent terroir in the parts of Sonoma and Mendocino immediately bordering Napa, before these regions had yet to come into their own.
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The mash is fermented for three days which as you know gives you beer, this is then continuously distilled in 3 separate copper plated columns before it is shipped to California where really clean water (4 parts per million) from a well in Mendocino is added by our friends at Charbay before we bottle and deliver it.
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We finished with the first two vintages of Burt's new wine (crafted after the expiration of his noncompete clause), the 2008 and 2009 Morning Dew Ranch Pinot, from a vineyard he planted in the Anderson Valley in Mendocino County, a very promising region for Pinot that, when he first bought in a decade ago, was almost as obscure as the Russian River Valley had been.
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