Winery Visit – Sterling Winery

Jeff & I had never been to Sterling Winery, altho originally, Jeff thought he had.  We have visited a few wineries in our time, and have even take a tour or two, along with our fair share of tastings, but this one was a bit more unique than the rest.

View from the Tram

One difference – we had to take a tram to get up to the winery!  I can say this is the first time I’ve ever had to do that.  It did give us a nice, and different, view of the countryside.

Aging Wine

Once at the winery, the tasting was handled in a different way, too. We were each given a wine glass to take with us from tasting station to tasting station.  Along the way, we toured various areas of the winery – a self-tour.  I don’t believe that I ever have seen area rugs in the area where wine was being aged in traditional size wine barrels.  I believe these barrels contained their “reserve” wine grapes.

Castle in the Hills

The tour did take us to the top of the winery where we had an excellent view of a neighboring winery from the rooftop deck.  The deck was set up to be able to host some nice private gatherings, where one could sip wine while taking in beautiful wine country views.

Big Barrels

I don’t know what types of grapes are being aged in these barrels, but I don’t think these would be any barrels that you could later convert into planting containers!

Heading Down

And, after a small additional tasting in a charming area where we sat at our own table, we took the tram back down to where we began.  It was truly a very different way to enjoy a wine tasting and tour!

Enjoy!