Last weekend we spent relaxing in the wine country and the Salvestrin family made our visit to St. Helena a very memorable one. The bed and breakfast Sunny Acres is an oasis of tranquility and harmony, a home filled with warmth and surrounded by a picture perfect vineyard that the Salvestrin family shares with their guests. There are only two rooms to which the guests can be invited. Both rooms are very spacious, comfortable (with modern bathrooms), and decorated to make you feel welcome in this family house that keeps traditions through generations from the eighteen hundreds when the estate was found. It was a privilege to stay for a night in the Salvestrins’ home, to enjoy the cool night on the balcony surrounded by the vineyard and to wake up to the coffee and baking aromas coming from the kitchen. The breakfast that Lynn’s mother made for us was just perfect - berries, breads, omelet, sausages, as if she knew what our taste buds would crave that morning. We walked through the vineyard with David Gibson, the tasting room manager, talked about winemaking and local histories, and though it was still early afternoon, we could not resist a treat of tasting from the best of the estate wine collection. It felt like we went back in time when winemaking was a way of making friends and not just another commerce.