Santa Maria, California – Presqu’ile, the estate winery poised high in the hills of Santa Maria with stunning ocean and vineyard views, announces the addition of Julie Simon as their new executive chef. Simon will be creating the tasting room wine and food pairings, as well as developing special event menus and overseeing wine dinners,…
How about some Aussie wines? This (now past) “tasting offers an unprecedented opportunity to learn more about the current landscape of Australian wines – discover the latest releases, explore new trends, taste special back vintages and engage with the largest group of Aussie winemakers to ever travel to the USA.” As part of the event,…
ST. HELENA, CALIF. (PRWEB) – Leading New Jersey-based alcohol beverage and gourmet food retailer, Gary’s Wine & Marketplace (http://www.garyswine.com), officially opened its first west coast store in St. Helena, California on Thursday, October 3rd, 2019. The very first winery that founder and CEO, Gary Fisch visited when he began his career in wine over forty years…
LOS OLIVOS, CALIF. (PRWEB) – Los Olivos (https://www.losolivosca.com/), the historical, wine-drenched Santa Ynez Valley wine country town in the heart of Santa Barbara County, will welcome guests to its 40th annual Day in the Country festival (https://www.losolivosca.com/day-in-the-country/) on Saturday, October 19, 2019. The largest of Los Olivos’ event productions, Day in the Country embodies the village’s…
Recently at Angelini Osteria a group of wine writers were invited to an intimate wine tasting and luncheon hosted by Cinzia Travaglini, owner of Travaglini Winery, and her daughter Alessia Collauto Travaglini. Cinzia and Alessia belong to the third and fourth generation of the Travaglini family – a renowned producer of traditional, limited production wines…
(BEND, Ore.) — For the last 12 years, Drew and Maura Bledsoe have been raising their four children in Bend, Oregon, while successfully operating Doubleback Winery and Bledsoe Family Winery in Drew’s hometown of Walla Walla, Wash. It’s only fitting, then, that the former NFL quarterback would opt to open his second Bledsoe Family Winery…
During my Santa Barbara trip this past summer – the word trip is used lightly as we only stayed two days – my focus was on the winery tasting rooms in the Funk Zone for an article for Elite magazine. One of the winemakers that I interviewed was Doug Margerum of Margerum Wine Company. (Photos)…
Lusso Della Terra Cellars won first place in the People’s Choice Award at the 21st annual Winemakers’ Cookoff in Paso Robles on August 10. It was the winery’s first year participating in the Paso Robles Rotary sponsored event, which was held at the Paso Robles Event Center. The owner and winemaker, Edward Cholakian, helped serve…
After regrettably missing out on a wine luncheon orchestrated by Cori Solomon of the #LAWineWriters Cori reached out to the winery and connected me so that I could review a few samples from home. The winery: Oso Libre in Paso Robles. A Teaser Nestled in the Santa Lucia Mountains on the far western edge of…