How do you decide which events to attend? My interest in Cal Poly Pomona actually came about from two separate directions. A very good friend of mine is heavily involved with the Cal Poly Pomona Collins School of Hospitality Management http://www.csupomona.edu/~collins/, so my wife Karen and I started attending events associated with the Collins School…
The SCV Wine Class held last Saturday night, has set the standard for local wine tasting events for over 20 years, expertly welcoming both new release and vintage wines as they do new wine drinkers and vintage experts. In helping to raise needed funds for the Student Orchestras at College of the Canyons the…
Clos Solene I was now ready for my final tasting at Paso Underground: the wines of Clos Solene http://www.clossolene.com/. Winemaker Guillaume Fabre came from France to Paso Robles. While building Clos Solene, which he has named after his wife, he worked as assistant winemaker at L’Aventure. He has recently left L’Aventure and is devoting himself…
9th Annual LAWineFest to Showcase Hundreds of Top Wines, plus Craft Brews, Artisanal Cocktails, Food Trucks, Celebrity Chefs and More (With code EVE2014 price is reduced to $50 for Sat, $45 for Sun: http://www.lawinefest.com/buy-tickets/. Click the number of tickets you want, enter promo code, apply, and watch the price drop!) Thirsty Angelenos will have plenty…
The twenty-seventh annual Ojai Wine Festival will take place Sunday, June 8, 2014 from 12:00 to 4:00 pm on the scenic shores of Lake Casitas. From its humble beginnings in 1987 the event has grown into a leading regional event attracting nearly 5000 people from throughout the Central Coast and Southern California. The annual event…
For our latest trip to Paso Robles, my wife Karen told me that we really need to go to some new places. She opined that my readers were probably getting tired of reading about the same wineries over and over. Admittedly, I am a creature of habit, but I suspect her admonition was inspired as…
Dating back to antiquity, most of what is now the Republic of Macedonia was known as the Kingdom of Paeonia. The peoples who inhabited these lands were primarily of Thracian stock. In 356 BCE, Phillip ll of Macedon took control of Paeonia. Under his reign, King Phillip not only brought in Greek culture, the tradition…
The last time we visited Tobin James Cellars www.tobinjames.com was in 2012, when I had a great conversation with Toby that I wrote about here: http://evewine101.com/2012/07/07/michael-perlis-reports-tobin-james-cellars/ We’ve visited Paso Robles a few times since, but with so much going on there all the time, we had not stopped in to the always busy and fun…
After reading Paso Robles Cab Collective: Wine Dining in the Beacon on 5/9, Paso Robles Cab Collective: En Primeur, Current and Reserve Tasting (also on May 9) on this website, today I have the final installment on the Cab Collective (though you can also look forward to an entire article just on HammerSky alone very…
Thousand Oaks, Calif.—The wine beer and food lineup is set for third annual California Jazz & Wine Festival in Sunday, May 18 at Conejo Creek Park, North (1379 East Janss Road) in Thousand Oaks. While sipping and munching, festival goers can relax and enjoy tunes from legendary rock/R&B/progressive band Ambrosia and other noted jazz and…