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Anselm Kiefer, California, Heitz Cellars, Hess Collection, Honig Winery, Napa Valley, Paso Robles, Robert Rauschenberg, San Francisco, St. Helena Olive Oil Co., Wisteria
The Napa Valley.
California anchors the world. As the home of two of the most important developments of the 20th century – film and technology – discovering the Golden State is important for everybody.
Anchoring California is a natural landscape of ocean to desert to mountain ranges. And vineyards. In 1973 Chateau Montelena in Napa Valley put California on the international wine map when even the French agreed the wine was great (though a blind tasting didn’t hurt). I’d not been here for over 20 years and was overdue for another visit.
Sound Travels with Jeff von der Schmidt 