Locals tasting room

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Entrance to Chateau Souverain

Our great tour guide, Tom

Looking East

South

North

Further explanation about wine making

A heated debate breaks out

Just hope there's no earthquake, Kevin

The barrel storage area is set up for a silent auction

Describing wine bottling and storage

Gesticulating wildly

The front of Niebaum-Coppola winery's chateau.

Another angle on the chateau.

The class enters to start the tour.

A decorated room inside the chateau.

Another view of that room.

A narrative of the winery's history.

The wine tasting table.

A view to the southeast showing the front of the Niebaum-Coppola property.

A southwest-looking view of the back of the property.

The back of the vineyard with Francis Coppola's house at the very back.

Another view of the back.

Our tourguide and Coppola's studio, American Zoetrope, at the very back.

Barrels of wine.

Some of Coppola's Oscars and awards.

The Al Pacino's desk from The Godfather, Part II.

Wine tasting begins.

More pouring.

After lunch, we visit the Sutter Home winery.

Another shot of Sutter Home's interior.

Sutter Home on the outside.

We next visit St. Supery winery.

This is a room from historic Atkinson house at the vineyard.

Another room in Atkinson house.

A west-looking view back toward the entrance to St. Supery.

The class leaving Atkinson house.

A view of the vineyard up close. There were a lot more biological details on this tour.

Another view of the vineyard showing the different rows with the different grapes.

The increasing mechanization of the wine industry was more apparent here.

Our great tour guide talking about the difference between how red wine and white wine is made.

Wine in oak barrels, where the wine extracts flavor from the wood.

Part of the bottling facility.

Our tasting begins.

A view of the front of Robert Mondavi winery. (Not with class)

Another view of Mondavi. A little reminiscent of Stanford?

The inner yard of Mondavi.