Across
- 2. This old-school figure deters birds from eating your crops
- 4. Charming coastal restaurant that pours our Heritage Blend by-the-glass
- 7. A tasting where you compare the same wine in a chronological vintage order
- 8. Another word for “spiced” wine
- 13. The change of colors within a cluster of grapes
- 14. Device you measure grape sugars with
- 15. This tiny town on the Mendocino Coast shares a name with a ghost
- 18. A tool you use around your yard in the Fall
- 20. shares a birthday with this Fall holiday
- 21. Another word for Fall
- 22. Flavor common in sparkling wine
- 23. This is something you can do while wine tasting to pace yourself that isn’t offensive
- 24. The “horn of plenty”
- 27. The big street fair our hometown of Ukiah hosts in October
- 28. Most widely-planted grape in the world
- 29. You do this during mushroom season
- 30. Thanksgiving dinner wine.
- 33. Scary dog movie filmed on the Mendocino Coast
- 35. Wine in French
- 36. An earthy, deep purple color
- 37. This wine has a magneta-tinged rim
Down
- 1. Pumpkins belong in this category of hard-shelled fruits
- 3. U.S. City where a massive hot air balloon festival happens every October
- 5. A group of witches
- 6. Name of the ship that docked at Plymouth Rock
- 8. Name of our little sister’s livestock dog
- 9. Where a toasted vanilla flavor comes from in a wine
- 10. These help a wine’s ability to age
- 11. An apple variety you can bake with
- 12. Secret ingredient in Whitney’s butternut squash soup
- 16. Our family has two of this shepherd breed
- 17. A wet and dry combination cooking method that often includes wine
- 19. Baby Jack tasted this solid food first
- 23. We call our bare-bones night crew this during harvest
- 25. A common spice in both egg nog and spiced wine
- 26. This type of wine is great with both oysters and fried chicken
- 28. The French name for Chardonnay
- 30. A type of ribbed fabric that has a retro Fall flair
- 31. A word used to describe a full-bodied, intense wine
- 32. Local spot in our county that makes apple cider
- 34. Popular Chardonnay clone in California