ShipCompliant and Wines & Vines Release Annual Report Showing Value of Winery Direct Shipments Jumping 15.5% in 2014 (Boulder, COLORADO) American wineries increased the dollar value of their direct-to-consumer wine shipments by an unprecedented 15.5% in 2014, with an equally record-breaking increase in the volume of those shipments. The average price per bottle of shipped…
New Paso Winery Receives Awards on ALL New Releases And Vintner Joel Cox, Academy Award Winning Editor, Nominated Again for American Sniper Paso Robles, CA – After receiving 6,417 entries from more than 25 states, the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition 2015 has once again successfully narrowed thousands of wines down to an exclusive few….
Slow Food International presented the 2015 edition of Slow Wine Guide at a wine tasting featuring more than 50 producers from 15 Italian wine regions that I attended at The Taglyan Center on Vine in Hollywood. Clearly the plan was to completely taste through the 17-page program. However, from one Italian to another, I got…
Peter Cham Departs West Bridge in Cambridge and Begins the Year as Chef de Cuisine of Lentz’s Central Coast Location WHO: Chef/Owner David Lentz, The Hungry Cat Hollywood, The Hungry Cat Santa Monica Canyon and The Hungry Cat Santa Barbara and Chef de Cuisine Peter Cham, The Hungry Cat Santa Barbara WHAT: Chef David Lentz…
Piero Selvaggio, Proprietor of VALENTINO Santa Monica, Chef Luciano Pellegrini and the Consortium of the Brunello of Montalcino Wine On Friday, February 20, 2015, Piero Selvaggio and the Consortium of the Brunello of Montalcino Wine celebrates the only “Leccio d’Oro” Gala Dinner on the west coast. As one of 30 restaurants worldwide, VALENTINO will host…
Make fun of the title AwesomeTown all you want, we are officially on the map now. And if the marketing behind that didn’t do it, Taste of the Town did last Sunday, in all its glory. As usual, I tried to limit myself to sampling what I haven’t sampled before. This isn’t an article about…
As you get out of your car and walk toward the Vina Robles tasting room in Paso Robles you enter under a beautiful vine laden trellis and just beyond a large fountain. This patio area has many shaded tables where one can purchase a bottle of wine and relax in the serenity of the courtyard…
100% of the beverages sold during the solita Tacos & Margaritas Grand Opening Fundraiser will go directly to the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley’s “it just takes one” Campaign (Valencia, CA) – It is no wonder that solita Tacos & Margaritas has south-of-the border cuisine down to a perfected craft, considering that…