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California dreaming

MY WIFE AND I SPENT OUR honeymoon in California wine country. In December 2009 we got married at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood then drove up the Pacific Coast Highway through Santa Barbara, Paso Robles and up to Napa and Sonoma. At one point we thought we were lost until we found ourselves driving across the Golden Gate Bridge.

We approached our wine tasting in a similarly whimsical way. This was before I had begun to write on the subject professionally so we would often find ourselves in a

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