The curving drive through the woods on Peachy Canyon Drive only heightens the anticipation of arriving at the gates that provide entry to Law Estate Wines and the experience it and the winery staff provide. But it wasn’t always this way. Our first taste of Law Estate was when they were pouring their first vintage…
The 100+ members of the Rhone Rangers invite you to join them for a day in Paso Robles Wine Country with some of America’s leading producers of Rhone varietals as we explore these great grapes and wines. This fun-filled and information-rich day will move this year to the Paso Robles Event Center! The event includes: “Rhone…
THE GRAND TASTINGS Of course, the HdR event wasn’t all “work” [I use this term very loosely] at the seminars that I wrote about in last week’s article. Friday afternoon was the Opening Tasting and the Closing Tasting was held Saturday afternoon. The participants were the same at both, with the opening tasting focusing on…
INTRODUCTION Over the years that I’ve been writing for Eve’s Wine 101, I’ve probably used the expression “if you only attend one event per year” often enough that it’s become almost a cliché. Now I can say “if you only attend one event every two years, this is the one you should attend.” Hospice du…
Hospice du Rhône’s bi-annual conference creates the largest gathering of Rhône wines on the planet San Luis Obispo, Calif. USA— Hospice du Rhône®, an international wine organization based in San Luis Obispo, California, will host their bi-annual Paso Robles conference April 26 -28, 2018 at the Paso Robles Event Center. Uniting the world-wide Rhône wine…
I used to do a round up of upcoming events, ones that I’ve been to and some that were new to me, nearly every year. Not sure why I stopped but, honestly, my wine world has grown so much – with more events than even I can ever go to – I think I just…
The seminar was informative and tasty. The lunch was a lot of fun and tasty as well. But now Karen and I were ready for the main event. Held in Herscher Hall, the size of the room and the layout of the tasting tables made for a very comfortable and enjoyable experience. For a tasting…
In spite of the great seminars and meals around town, the most exciting parts of the weekend for me were still the big Opening and Closing Tastings. As mentioned previously, the tastings featured 145 tasting tables at which to taste the wide variety of what the Rhone wines have to offer. With an understandably heavy-Central…
The next day started bright and early with the first seminar on white wines at 9:30 AM. [White wine – it’s what’s for breakfast, right?] John Alban complimented us all on making it to the seminar given what must have been a late wine-filled evening for everyone. The white wine seminar was called Costieres de…
I’ve been waiting a long time for this. Hospice du Rhone, an event focusing on producers of Rhone varietals from all over the world, had been a fixture in Paso Robles for 15 years before moving to Tennessee in 2012. My recollection [vague as it may be] is that the event had its origins in…