23rd Annual Passport to Dry Creek Valley – A Modern Tradition with Century-Old Roots Saturday & Sunday, April 28-29 from 11am – 4:30pm 50 participating wineries throughout Dry Creek Valley Festivities include: exquisite wine tasting, gourmet food, themed décor, and live music Fly Alaska Airlines into Santa Rosa & fly a case of wine home…
Throughout Sonoma County’s 14 appellations, region by region, variety by variety, and vineyard by vineyard, reports indicate that there was much variation experienced in terms of yield and timing of harvest, but the general consensus indicates that overall yield was down by an estimated 20% from the average. Nevertheless quality of the fruit that was…
I’m not a bartender but I’m interested in cocktails.online pharmacy https://kendrickfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/new/bactroban.html no prescription drugstore I’m not a winemaker either but I’m interested in wine. With that said, I’ve helped harvest grapes for winemaking, I figured I cold manage making a cocktail that required more than three ingredients. Let’s see how I fared: My Mojito…
Some time ago, I wrote about visiting winemaker Stillman Brown in the middle of a remote vineyard in Paso Robles, and tasting his wines out of the trunk of his car, with one of the wineglasses still having a stray lipstick mark on it. Well, for those of you who prefer a more “civilized” experience…
A few weeks ago, when I reported on the upcoming [November 12, 2011] Paso Garagiste Festival (www.pasogaragiste.com), I promised an update. Well, I had the opportunity recently to sit down at The Cellar with festival founder Doug Minnick and fellow festival organizer Lisa Dinsmore (follow her on Twitter @DailyWine) to get the latest scoop on…
It’s getting a little confusing in Paso Robles. When I tell people we are going to Cypher Winery, I get blank stares until I tell them it used to be Four Vines. Then everyone nods. Four Vines always kind of seemed to me like two wineries anyway. First, there were the Four Vines wines, very…
One of my pals in the SCV Vintners and Growers Association, Stephen Hemmert, invited me to a bottling, via a bottling truck, via a mobile bottling line, in Agua Dulce last weekend. Come to find that Reyes Vineyards, adjacent to Agua Dulce Vineyards, was bottling their first three varietals. Robert Reyes, the winemaker and owner…
What a treat to tour caves at least at one winery in Paso Robles last week. Got us out of the rain, AND SNOW, and allowed us to imagine that we were dining at an exclusive candlelit wine dinner or an intimate wedding. Rows seemed endless, barrels calling out to us with their vintage years…