Tassajara www.tassajaracellars.com Rounding out our visit to Silver Horse was tasting the wines of Tassajara Cellars. Tassajara is the name of the tallest mountain in the Santa Lucia range, which separates Paso Robles and the Pacific Ocean. Winemaker/owner Craig Reed, who used to be the winemaker for the Martin & Weyrich and York Mountain wineries,…
The Club Culinaire of French Cuisine [http://www.clubculinaire.us] is a non-profit organization of chefs, wine purveyors and other hospitality professionals. The Club organizes events to support the Concern Foundation, the Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Hope Program and the M.E.G. Foundation in India. One of the annual events is the Picnic Des Chefs which brings together various…
Another sunny day in California…but wait…what’s this…a wine fest! Yahoo! Nothing makes a weekend any better than to spend a few hours in the backlot of Raleigh Studios sipping wine, sampling tequila, trying out a new single malt scotch and pairing it all with old pals and new acquaintances. Yes, it’s my life, go get…
Sonoma In The City is the touring Taste of Sonoma event presented by Sonoma County Vintners, Sonoma County Winegrape Commission, Sonoma County Tourism Bureau and Full Circle Wine Solutions. I had the pleasure of attending the trade/media portion of this event held recently in Los Angeles at The London hotel in West Hollywood. Sonoma County…
Epiphany! Why do I get so excited after over five years of dedicating myself to writing about wine? Why does a Rhone Rangers tasting event build up such an anticipatory thirst in me? The first time I went to a Rhone Rangers event I scoffed at all of the Grenache being poured, as the color…
Four Brix Winery www.fourbrixwine.com We were ready for our final stop of the day. Gary Stewart, one of the owners of Four Brix Winery in Ventura, had actually set up our itinerary for the day. We had originally planned on visiting four wineries that day, but the amount of quality time we spent at the…
Bella Victorian Vineyard www.bellavictorianvineyard.com My wife Karen and I were ready to start our first taste of Ventura County wine country. And since wine tasting should not be done on an empty stomach, we were glad our first stop was at Bella Victorian’s Tasting Room & Bistro in Old Town Camarillo. Traveling with our good…
Club Culinaire’s 32nd Picnic des Chefs is next Sunday, May 20. In wanting to prep readers as to why they may want to attend this gastric feast of both food and wine I reached out to local winemaker, Stephen Hemmert, to tell us a little more about the kid-friendly event: Hi Stephen, could you tell…
And Sunday morning pretty much started as Saturday had ended. Stillman Brown, owner of Zeppelin Winery, texted me at 7 AM to let me know that he was on his way with the Colossus Syrah I had purchased from him previously, as well as some new wines he wanted us to taste. So at 8:30…
Our next stop was Turley Wine Cellars, where they were presenting a blending seminar. The panelists were National Sales Manager Christina Turley, Winemaker Karl Wicka and Vineyard Manager Brennan Stover, and the topic was how the various blocks of the Pesenti Vineyard in Paso Robles are blended together. The Pesenti Vineyard was originally planted over…