The Weekend Journal section of today's Wall Street Journal has a good article on reader experiences with tasting clubs, wedding wine, and visiting wineries. It reminded me of a delightful afternoon I spent in Sonoma when I was in California for the Western Economic Association meetings.

Some friends and I were touring some of the larger Sonoma wineries when we decided to stop at a much smaller winery, Homewood winery. We hadn't been in the tasting room for more than 15 minutes when the owner/operator of the winery came in to relieve his only employee. We spent the next several hours discussing and drinking wine, as well as learning a lot about the difficulty of being a one-man winery.

The owner David Homewood was so generous with his time (and wine) that it pained me that I could only purchase four bottles to take back on the plane with us. Hopefully the Institute for Justice will one day Free the Grapes! so I can order wine from David cheaply and legally. If you're ever in Sonoma, I urge you to stop by Homewood Winery.