What to eat with Far North California wines, on the trail and at home: local pairings that actually work.
Pairing here starts with the wines themselves: Trappist monastery wines poured daily, Redding tasting rooms, redwood-coast Pinot and volcanic-soil Petite Sirah.
Redding's downtown restaurants surround the Market Street rooms, and the abbey visit pairs naturally with Vina's farm-country quiet; pack the picnic for the mountain stops
start at New Clairvaux's Vina estate for the monastery pour that defines the region, then Burnsini's Cottonwood estate northbound, finishing at the Redding rooms
Where kitchens are scarce, a cooler and a farm-stand stop turn any permitted picnic table into the best restaurant in the region.
New Clairvaux's abbey-made wines are the signatures, with Briceland's single-vineyard Humboldt Pinot the coastal collector piece and Alger's 1971-vine Petite Sirah the volcanic one, and both reward the table more than the trophy shelf.
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