As mentioned, we went up to Sonoma this weekend to celebrate a birthday with Josh's family.
Josh's dad was the one who noticed that all the tourist maps of the wineries were either for Napa County or Sonoma County, but never both. What's the deal? Though geographically side by side, they might as well be different countries.
Our waitress at lunch said that word on the street is that there is a long-standing rivalry between the two. Evidently Sonoma is the second sister (think Jan Brady) to the more famous and celebrated Napa; grapes from Napa can even get up to twice as much as Sonoma grapes.
This wondering about the Napa-Sonoma rivalry wove its way through the afternoon and evening, culminating in a Google search and live readings from the results, until someone finally said, "Jeez, it's not like the Arab-Israeli conflict!"
I couldn't stop thinking, what would that look like? Sonoma residents vintners walking into Robert Mondavi vineyards with a backpack of Sonoma grapes rigged to explode, tainting the precious Napa crops? Injecting the soil with chemicals? Drive by cheese and french baguette bombs? Oh the possibilities!
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