By Rachel Levin, Sunset senior editor
Last month, I was up in Glen Ellen, California for a friend's wedding and stumbled upon one of my new favorite stops in Wine Country: Jack London Village. A low-key little row of all that's good in this world:
Cheese. Chocolate. Olive oil. Wine. All within steps of each other.
Like, I'm talking, literally two steps apart you've got:
Raymond Cheese Mongers: A nothing-fancy closet-sized shop filled with glorious, artisanal cheese made from cow's, goat's, and sheep's milk. Can't get there—don't worry, you can shop online!
Figone Olive Oil: Next, sample Mission-Manzanillo, Tuscan blend, and citrus olive oils produced right here in Glen Ellen. Got 500 lbs of your own olives? You're invited to press 'em at their village mill in November and December. (For more on making your own olive oil, see our One-block Diet blog. I'm a proud member of Sunset's Team Olive.)
Wine Country Chocolates: Then move on to chocolate. Handmade truffles infused with everything from cabernet sauvignon and port to apricot and fresh orange.
Eric Ross Winery A red barn-of-a-tasting room across the road with a rooster logo and crisp viogniers and rich pinot noirs.
And don't forget lunch: Olive and Vine makes some damn fine sandwiches—which you can enjoy on a shady picnic table, out back by the creek. I had a simple, but outstanding, house-roasted turkey served on toasted wholewheat spread with a zingy citrus-habenero mustard, topped with bacon and one of the juiciest tomatoes I've ever had—trucked in from the farm mere minutes before slicing.
Olive and Vine just so happened to cater that wedding, too. Yum.




