There we were, gripping our cabernet sauvignon from the Maipo Valley of Chile as the Spanish conquistadors approached the country along the desert route of Atacama from Peru. No one seemed alarmed. The following week, as the Goths and then the Huns took control of Spain, we calmly swirled and took in the aromas of a wine made from the Airen grape in that country's La Mancha region, feeling quite safe from the carnage. The week after? As we contemplated the 2001 Chateau Les Ormes de Pez from St. Estephe in our glass, Eleanor of Aquitaine thwarted two separate kidnapping attempts as she fled home to Bordeaux after her annulment to the King of France, and ran straight into the arms of the man who was about to become King of England, as protection from the bandits.

SACRAMENTO -- The San Antonio Winery is a most unlikely business in a most unlikely spot.

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