{"id":21,"date":"2015-01-07T22:53:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T22:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2015-12-23T21:20:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:20:40","slug":"wine-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Wine and Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a lot of wine to taste in Napa Valley but some wineries offer something extra, which is art.\u00a0 Turnbull Winery (www.turnbullwines.com<\/span><\/a>) is one of them.\u00a0 They have a rotating exhibition of historic black and white photographs in the Gallery Tasting Room, that they change twice a year. \u00a0Patrick O\u2019Dell, the winery owner, has a vast collection that he puts on display.\u00a0 The current show is an Ansel Adams retrospective, with some of the most famous of his silver gelatin prints up on the walls.\u00a0 \u00a0Each time we\u2019ve been to Turnbull, we were so pleased by their exhibition but did not spend enough time strolling around.\u00a0 \u00a0We promised ourselves that the next time we will plan more time just to visit the exhibition which is always amazing \u2026 and of course taste their wine.<\/p>\n

The building is beautiful, in a wooden barn-style with high ceilings and “Napa style” d\u00e9cor. While at the bar for the tasting you\u2019re facing a large window from which you can enjoy the view of the garden and the vineyard.\u00a0 They have built a beautiful green vegetable garden and when we mentioned how interesting and pretty it was, they offered us some vegetables.\u00a0 Unfortunately we could not accept because we were staying at a hotel.<\/p>\n

You can either have your tasting in the tasting room or outside in the garden where they have chairs and tables and also a fire pit for cooler days.<\/p>\n

The guys are extremely nice and knowledgeable.\u00a0 We were invited to bring our glass of wine with us and have a tour of their barrel room where all their wines from the last harvest were resting.\u00a0 It was in December; the crush was in the barrels; everything was spic & span; <\/em>an employee was making the Christmas decorations; and it smelled so delicious, we just wanted to stay there!<\/p>\n

They are not pretentious and it\u2019s worth a stop for a tasting because they know how to make great wines.\u00a0 They say that some producers make good wine in a bad year and Turnbull\u2019s 2011\u2019s are proof of the saying.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Turnbull is certainly on our top list for our next visit to Napa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a lot of wine to taste in Napa Valley but some wineries offer something extra, which is art.\u00a0 Turnbull Winery (www.turnbullwines.com) is one of them.\u00a0 They have a rotating exhibition of historic black and white photographs in the Gallery Tasting Room, that they change twice a year. \u00a0Patrick O\u2019Dell, the winery owner, has … Continue reading Wine and Art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}