The California Wine Hiker inspires reveries of broad beach blankets spread over grass at the base of a trailhead, our tennies off after trudging through Napa’s hills, a chilled white and a sun-warmed red and enough cheese and cured meat nibbles to revive. We are dizzy with dehydration-fueled-drunkenness the loveliness of the scene.

Here’s to making the good life better by marrying two seemingly disparate but actually harmonious pursuits! Cin Cin!