The Big Sur Food & Wine Festival celebrates its sixth year November 6-9, 2014. Possibly the “longest” food and wine festival in the country, this small but unique festival has recently been recognized by Trip Advisor as “One of the Top Ten Food and Wine Festivals in the U.S.” states founder and president, Toby Rowland…
Last week, I reported on The Ojai Wine Festival as marking the end of the Los Angeles area outdoor wine festivals until autumn. Well, we had one more to go be before calling it a season. And like the Ojai festival, this was in another remarkably scenic location. Wine In The Pines is held in…
June brings the last of the outdoor wine festivals in the Los Angeles area, at least the last until the weather starts to cool off again upon the end of summer. The Ojai Wine Festival was held Sunday, June 8th. Now in its 28th year, this event offers an amazing array of wines to taste,…
Presented By Joe Giacomin’s Martin Chevrolet To Benefit The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy: A Growing Tradition in Southern California The sixth annual Wine & Beer Festival will take place from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., on Sunday, August 24, 2014, at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles. The event, including world renowned wineries and…
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…
Simply Wine Festival http://simplywinefest.com/ What started as a dream fairly quickly turned into an amazing reality. Martha Peretz and her team at Great Festivals Incorporated should be congratulating themselves for putting on a practically perfect extravaganza, the Simply Wine Festival, especially considering it was their inaugural event. Start with the venue itself, the Four Seasons…
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…
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…
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…