Petter had a dream of a picture like this at Highway 1, California. Off course I didn’t know it was such a big deal to him at the time and having a Caonon 5 d camera on the highway with cars coming fast as hell was more than I could take. I cut off the photo session and then we didn’t talk to each other for two hours… Just thought it would be fun for you guys to know it ain’t always sunshine..

Our friend Alexander, also known as Ballen, moved to San Francisco from Sweden the same day as we came to S.F from New york. He’s gonna study at Miami Ad School (yes, it’s called Miami Ad School, it’s a filial to the actual one who is situated in Miami) It was a long time since we met the last time, but meeting each other on the other side of the world didn’t felt weird at all. We ate at a typical American diner, hanged in the cable cars, saw the crooked Lombard street and drank Corona’s in his new apartment. Then his wonderful mum Anna took us out for italian dinner and we later slept in Casa Balleno on his brand new Ikea sofa. Thank you Ballen for a nice day in San Francisco!

We had been driving the high way one from north of napa valley and downwards. We started to get pretty hungry and bham there where the first restaurant we´d seen for a few hours. Happened to be the one that started to tradition to grill oysters, so we had a plate of those and a shellfish soup with a crab, shrimps, clams (sånna snäckor man brukar plocka på stranden), blue muscles, shellfish and loads of more goodies fished just outside of our window. After a while we figured we ended up eating in the middle of Californias seafood paradise, and definitely on one of the best restuarants. Pretty cool and super good. Thanks Sarah & co. for giving us great service too!

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Somwhere on a small road north of San Francisco. A countryside town in the states pretty much how I imaged one to be. Just few houses and very few people, an old lady telling us you can get robbed if you go out there, “watch out, people get lost all the time she said”. We said good bye…

We went to Freestone too which is a vineyard Phelps built in purpose of making the best Pinot Noir and Chardonnay he thinks is possible. He placed the vines in the small community of Freestone which lies closer to the coast and get’s a more salty and rough climate than they get in Napa or Sonoma. Just the kind of climate you need for producing these wines, tough and hard so that they have to struggle to survive.

We have been selling lots of the Pinot Noir on the restaurant this summer, dad pretty much tells the guests what they should drink since which they do since they like his choice of wines. And this pinot noir they have ordered again and again. When it comes to the chardonnay me my dad and my brother was on a tasting in gothenburg this autumn where we got to try about 40-50 wines from around the world. There where good chardonnays from everywhere and probably 7-8 really god ones from Bourgogne. The Freestone Chardonnay where better than all of them. I was super stoked to try this great wine again together with the Fogdog and the Aviation which are to more simple Chardonnay’s in two different ways. Simple and simple, anything is simple compared to the Freestone Chardonnay.

Thanks Stephen & Brad for giving us a great time and explaining the history of the land and the wines! Thanks the Phelps family for making super awesome wines!