Love and life go on, let the music play...

Well folks, sometimes the will to rock never dies. Monte Moses and his band, Road South, formed in college in the early '70s. They headlined most of their gigs at bars around Napa, when the valley looked like one giant farm.

Eventually, careers and families took hold of Monte and the gang, and, like most rock 'n' roll bands, the flame burned out. But not forever...

The band has recently restrung their axes and sharpened their sticks to rise out of the ashes. And on Saturday July 9, Road South will be kicking out the jams at Vineland Station, where, as you can see below, the proceeds will benefit the Furaha Community Center of Nairobi, Kenya.

Check out the flier:

Where Karl Lawrence comes in:

Ric, who used to be a killer saxophonist, played in a slew of jazz combos with his old pal Monte from the 7th through the 11th grades.

Will Ric get up there and wail with Road South on the sax?

Most likely not.

But... he will be there pouring all of you some Karl Lawrence.

So head down to Vineland Station on July 9, drink some good wine, and shake it.

For more on the event and the cause, click here.

BBQ

Sorry for the break, folks. It has been a busy June so far. And by busy, we mean we've been doing stuff like this:

Here we have Scott Urie (middle left) hosting his annual BBQ at the KL office (and that's the famous Dr. Crane Vineyard in the background). To left of him is Carissa Stavrakos of Long Island. She's enjoying her last wine drinking for awhile until she does a triathalon on Long Island. Then we have Jarred, who just moved from Petaluma to Montana, and then KL's winemaker in the flesh, Michael Trujillo.

A slew of people are not pictured, and happened to be having the time of their lives behind the camera.

Scott loves bbq-ing for the KL crew so much, we've lined up a couple more parties for the rest of the summer. The next is in just a couple days up at the Henry Brother's Ranch.

So if any of y'all make it out to the Napa Valley, you might get lucky enough to catch Scott grilling up a storm with the KL crowd.

See you there?

Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial Day Weekend is a weekend of epic proportions in the Napa Valley. And these folks are taking advantage of it:

Grant Burch and Judy Trafas started Memorial Day Weekend off right with a 9 am tasting at the KL office.

Now the rest of you should do the same.

Look Out East Coast...

We're coming for you. This summer, UPS is offering temperature controlled ground shipping for only $8 more. This is how it works: once a week, an air-conditioned train will leave California and head cross-country to one of four east coast hubs, meaning each destination will haul in one train per month. Then, from one of those eastern hubs, the wine will be sent using regular ground service. The result is 2DayAir service for the price of ground + $8. So all of you easterners won't have to wait until November to get your wine. Pretty. Dang. Cool.

So pick up those phones and call up ol' Jefferson to tell him how happy you are to get your wine a few months earlier. Isn't he cute?

Jefferson. Circa 1977.

Steak and Wine

Despite our status as a rather "underground" label, we're getting our name out there. Thanks to Marlene Rossman with Chef Magazine* Online, the culinary world now knows that Karl Lawrence Cab goes great with steak salad. Splendid, in fact. Peep the recipe and ponder whipping it up yourself, here (scroll to page 14 and click once to enlarge).

We also made the print edition of Chef. So find a copy of the mag, cut out that recipe, put it on your fridge, and impress your husband/wife/grandmother/neighbor (etc.) with some exquisite steak salad and Karl Lawrence Cab.

Also, while doing research, we stumbled upon another KL shout out in the online food community. This one via "The Brad's Adventures in Food Blog," where Karl Lawrence was paired with grilled Moroccan Flank Steak and Panzanella Salad at Fine Wine Auction & Celebrity Chef Dinner in Dallas (a benefit for the American Heart Association). While we were unaware of Brad and his blog, Michael was there, pouring, and had a fantastic time (KL has been featured at this event for the last four years).

Wine display at Fine Wine Auction & Celebrity Chef Dinner in Dallas, TX.

And just because most of you are not "celebrity chefs," doesn't mean you can't cook a mean flank steak yourself.

There are a bunch of KL friends and their wines featured in both of these publications, so please, check them out.

http://www.chefmagazine.com/

http://www.thebradsblog.com/food/

On a different note, for all you twitter-ers out there, follow us @KLCellars! We are still novices with this flowering celeb-drama hub, but we figured we'd give it a shot and would love to annoy you with our "tweets." But, keep in mind, we're a mellow bunch who want to talk wine. We're not the Kardashians.

Grilled Moroccan Flank Steak with Panzanella Salad. Try it with some KL Cab.

* As featured in Chef Magazine-- Copyright 2011 Talcott Communications, USA. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved

Growing Up

Aside from a graduation, Karl Lawrence has an even more exciting breaking news story: Zoey lost her first tooth! (and another one since this picture was taken):

The note is a little hard to see, but it chronicles the extraordinary event in typical Ric Henry fashion. See, when Zoey told her Grandpa that her tooth was loose, old Ric didn't even hesitate to tie a piece of dental floss around it, tie it to a door knob, and slam that sucker.

Yep, we thought it was only a myth, but apparently Ric believed otherwise.

But Zoey was quite pleased with the results and wasn't phased by the pain. So, luckily, we didn't have to give her a thimble filled with some '06 Cab.

¡Kongradulashons!

So the youngest Henry (other than the slew of babies that have came on the scene in the last few years) has graduated college. And to celebrate, Ric, Cheryl, and the gang, trekked east (via planes, trains, and automobiles) to party with Nicholas and the Boulder crew. The following carnage ensued:

We listened to a Chipotle Advertisement (graduation speech) in the sun:

And Cheryl let Ric know that he was missing the "throwing of hats!":

But it ended up working out fine:

Nic and Ric at Folsom Field.

Nic and his roommate, Jakey Craney, at the major specific ceremony.

We met dogs with our same name!:

Human Zoey holds dog Zoey and is pretty stoked.

We stopped by places of past employment, and were excited about it:

And we finally found out what the Temporary Chill Zone was all about:

We stacked rocks in criks!:

(or "creeks" if you're not Ric Henry)

We closed our eyes at the Sundown Saloon!:

(not pictured: Christopher Pratt and the 10 empty pitchers of Pabst Blue Ribbon around him):

We bowled with the famous G-Ma:

Mabel Miyasaki (Angie's Grandma) orders a small pair of shoes.

And gets it done.

And ate tons of good food courtesy of the rest of the Goldens:

The women of Angie's fam, fabulous hosts: Gma, Meri, Gwendy, and Tammy

We stood on roofs:

TCZ

The entire crew of graduating graduates.

And, in the end, it was a good time...

The whole visiting fam outside of Folsom.

Photo cred:

Cool ones: Angie

Just sort of regular ones: Ric and Cheryl