We were happy to spend some time with our Japanese importer, Masatoshi Hamamoto (known to all as Hama) and his fiancée, Ray Matsumoto in Half Moon Bay during their trip to California and Oregon. Ray is an ophthalmologist in Kobe and she blogs extensively about food and wine in Japan and during her travels abroad. Hama and Ray are intelligent, thoughtful, kind people and it was an absolute pleasure to share our home with them. For dinner we pulled out a 2009 Varner Home Block Chardonnay and a 2009 Varner Three Blocks Pinot. Ray’s post about the wines and visit is here