From one of my fave educational sources, Ian Blackburn of LearnAboutWine.com, I received an invitation to attend a VIP luncheon with 16 other vinophiles followed by a tasty tour of the STARS of Santa Barbara held in the beautiful Beverly Hills Peninsula Hotel. Winemaker Luncheon There were seventeen names on the guest list, four winemakers…
50% first vintage since 2006; 45% have own vineyard/grapes; 62% have no tasting room; 70% favor Syrah Paso Robles, CA – October 2, 2012 – Forty-eight artisan ‘garagiste’ winemakers are set to pour at the Second Annual Garagiste Festival, the first and only festival dedicated to promoting artisan ‘garagiste*’ winemakers, held November 8th through 11th…
In 1985, Warner Henry founded what would eventually become The Henry Wine Group, recognizing that the wine industry’s distribution needs differed from the world of spirits.buy lariam online https://www.mabvi.org/wp-content/languages/new/lariam.html no prescription As a leading wholesaler, importer and distributor, The Henry Wine Group has an incredibly diverse portfolio of wines, which it periodically showcases to the…
The day before I left the U.S. to chaperone my daughter’s show choir at the Olympics, I signed up for my friend Denise Lowe’s Spanish Wine Tasting Class. I’ve interviewed Denise many times about her work as a wine educator and festival sommelier, but never attended one of her educational tasting classes. Below are the…
Silver Horse Winery http://www.silverhorse.com Awhile back, we attended a tasting at the Vibiana in downtown Los Angeles put on by the Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance. One of the highlights of this tasting for me was Silver Horse Winery, which is located in San Miguel. This is essentially Northeast of Paso Robles, and is sometimes…
Cantara Cellars www.cantaracellars.com Winery owners Mike and Chris Brown opened their Cantara Cellars tasting room in October 2007. But, their winemaking actually started four years earlier, in the garage of their home in Moorpark, in the Cantara section of the Serenata development [after all, the name “Brown Estate” was taken. J] Mike grew up in…
Spanish Wines Class – (Friday, May 11) 7pm $25 As far as bang for your buck, it is hard to beat the wines coming out of Spain. Often very inexpensive, Spanish wine can be very complex and pair with many of the food staples of Southern California. In this Spanish wines class, Sommelier Jeff Prange…
Family Winemakers of California Thirteenth Annual Trade Tasting Pasadena Convention Center Tuesday, March 13th If I had to go to only one wine tasting event per year, it would be the Family Winemakers of California tasting held annually in Pasadena. With typically about 200 wineries represented, many of which are not readily available, this event…
Do you remember the old Creedence Clearwater Revival song, “Lodi”? Yes, the one that had the classic line, “Oh Lord, I’m stuck in Lodi again”. Well, I had those words rolling around in my head last week as I took up some old friends on a wine tasting invite down in the Lodi area. I…