The Earth Day Food & Wine Festival is known for its tantalizing array of locally sourced dishes and award-winning wine and they are raising the bar this year ready to showcase another Central Coast secret: that gluten-free can be just as robust and flavorful. There’s often quite a bit of communication at festivals between attendees…
The Vine 2 Wine Classic, the rebirth of the Santa Clarita Valley Wine Classic, and which combines the former Vine 2 Wine event, will be held on Saturday evening, August 17, from 6:30 — 10:00 p.m., in the City of Santa Clarita’s Activities Center, where it was held last year. The single admission price of…
From a Facebook friend: You may have to bump up the recipe cause I make it in small amounts, but here it is: Apple Peach Wine (but you can name it whatever you want) It’s actually very simple: Grind up 3 cups of apple without the pealing. 3 cups of peaches. 1 cup of Oregon…
The Barrymore http://barrymorelv.com/ We really enjoy our trips to Las Vegas. And one of the things we love is that there are so many incredible wining and dining options there. That being said, except for occasional exceptions, we’re not really into that whole celebrity chef thing on the Strip. We much prefer finding restaurants a…
Who was this uber-tall, redheaded young man walking up to me with a leather cowboy hat in one hand and his black Labrador-mixed hound trailing behind the other? Come to find it was Tom Stolpman’s son Peter, the very capable manager of the family-run business. Peter met us at the Stolpman Vineyard’s tasting room in…
When visiting a winery the experience of tasting with the winemaker or winery representative is not easily duplicated. However, the planners behind the inaugural WiSH Education Foundation – benefiting our local Junior and Senior high schools – have done just that. With the approval from our city’s latest landmark – the Old Town Newhall Library…
Due to all the interest from our readers, we decided to conduct a tasting with corn based vodkas. Who would have thought that finding this style of spirit in Europe would be such a difficult task. My living room table had been set and everything was ready to go, with the exception of a most…
Adapted from Fireman Favorites by Firefighter Cruz Macias I was anxious to try out a recipe from my new Fireman Favorites cookbook. This one sounded so fresh and flavorful I thought I’d give it a try. Note that if you do buy the cookbook the recipes are designed to serve a firehouse. I pared down…
Now and then a reader (I’m so tickled to have one) will ask me about such and such or so and so from a past column that I thought it might be a novel idea to try and give them a little closure with a column dedicated to just that. I have also been known…
Here is a wine that says romance or special occasion. We do not see people at wine parties lining up bottles of Champagne for all to savor throughout an evening at parties. However, it is quite often served at the beginning of a dinner party along with delicate appetizers to enhance everyone’s palate and prepare…