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Garagiste Festival: Southern Exposure Expands – Over Fifty SBC/SYV “Garagiste” Winemakers to Pour March 29th and 30th in Solvang

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Tickets now on sale for two days of events and seminars featuring hard-to-find, high-quality, small-production winemakers from Santa Barbara County and Santa Ynez Valley; 50% are new festival discoveries; one in four pouring first vintage, 80% have no tasting room. Garagiste Event tickets are now on sale at http://californiagaragistes.com/buy-tickets/ for its expanded Santa Ynez Valley-based Garagiste…

Michael Perlis

Perlis Picks: Simply Wine Festival

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I just got off the phone with Martha Peretz, CEO and one of the founders of Simply Wine Festival, which will be taking place the evening of March 14th, 2014 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village, CA. I really loved her enthusiasm – this is a young lady who apparently got bitten by the…

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VINTAGE PASO: ZINFANDEL AND OTHER WILD WINES

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The 22nd Annual Festival Celebrates Paso Robles’ Heritage Grape and Other Wild Wines March 14 – 16 Paso Robles, CA – Save the date for Vintage Paso: Zinfandel and Other Wild Wines, March 14 – 16, 2014. Paso Robles, Wine Enthusiast’s 2013 Wine Region of the Year, annually pays tribute to its heritage grape…

Eve Bushman

Vintage 2/09 Beacon: Favorite Wine Experiences…and none are mine!

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This week I queried some wine experts on their favorite wine, and what they were doing when they first had it. Their answers made me more than a wee bit thirsty. Years ago, on what used to be a favorite spring outing – to the Amador Vintners Festival – we were referred to the Fiddletown…

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College of the Canyons Installs Vineyard at Valencia Campus

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From Pulchella co-woner Steve Lemley: We are so excited. Tired but excited!! Who else gets handed a historic piece of Paso Robles? Vines close to 50 years old planted by one of our mentors and previously managed by our vineyard consultant Nick Valdez of Remo Belli vineyards. Richard Sauret planted these Zinfandel vines in 1969 and managed them…

Michael Perlis

Perlis Picks: The Collins College of Hospitality Management’s Restaurant at Kellogg Ranch

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The Collins College of Hospitality Management at Cal Poly Pomona has been around an incredible 75 years. Per their website, it “is the oldest and largest hospitality management program in California”. They recently held a dinner to celebrate this achievement at their on-campus restaurant – The Restaurant at Kellogg Ranch. In attendance were alumni of…

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Paso Excitement (Part 1)

evebushman10 years ago10 months ago08 mins

To those that know me it is no secret that I am in love with Paso Robles. Yes, I still collect wines from France and Italy but Paso is growing to become a second Napa Valley in my opinion. This area has a wide variety of wines to select from over 300 vineyards producing many…

Eve Bushman

Stars of Santa Barbara – Creating a Buzz

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Instead of attending as media during the day, this time I opted to dress up, bring my hubby, and see what it’s like to attend http://www.LearnAboutWine.com’s STARS of Santa Barbara wine tasting event at night, like normal people. I quickly discovered that the crowd didn’t walk around with notepads or cameras, so I easily got…

Eve Bushman

Romania Birthplace of the Gods of Wine

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Legend has it that the Greek God of Wine, Dionysus (who was initially a Thracian god) was born in Romania. It is no surprise that in antiquity, Plato himself, declared the vineyards of Getae (Romania, as it was known to the ancient Greeks) to be the best in the world. Once the Romans came on…

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2010 J. Dusi Caterina Syrah

evebushman10 years ago2 years ago09 mins

Janell and Dante Dusi This year has been good to me. I have great friends that I share my passion of wines as well as new wineries that I have come to feel close to as if I am part of their family. One such winery is Daou, which I have written many articles…

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Garagiste Festival: Southern Exposure Expands – Over Fifty SBC/SYV “Garagiste” Winemakers to Pour March 29th and 30th in Solvang

Perlis Picks: Simply Wine Festival

VINTAGE PASO: ZINFANDEL AND OTHER WILD WINES

Vintage 2/09 Beacon: Favorite Wine Experiences…and none are mine!

College of the Canyons Installs Vineyard at Valencia Campus

Perlis Picks: The Collins College of Hospitality Management’s Restaurant at Kellogg Ranch

Paso Excitement (Part 1)

Stars of Santa Barbara – Creating a Buzz

Romania Birthplace of the Gods of Wine

2010 J. Dusi Caterina Syrah