We met my brother Tom and his wife Ginger in Windsor for three days of wine-tasting and conversation. This is the overview of our three days in Sonoma County. We discovered a really good winery that...
Well. It has been a few months since we wrote about our March trip to Sonoma and Napa. We’ve been busy working on paying projects to support our wine habit. While we were in Calistoga we...
We traveled north on February 17. Our main objective was the Spire Collection tasting of wines from Maggy Hawk. A full review will be coming shortly. This is the overview of our weekend in Sonoma and...
Update November 16: This article evolved into a four-part series. Here are the links to parts 1, 2, and 3: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: And we are just about exhausted. Forthwith, the fourth and final...
Update November 16: This article evolved into a four-part series. Here are the links to parts 1, 2, and 4: Part 1: Part 2: Part 4: [Update November 6 to add Phillips Hill’s 2013...
Update November 16: This article evolved into a four-part series. Here are the links to parts 2, 3, and 4: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: The third weekend in May we headed north for our first visit to the...
USA Today is running a competition for “Best Wine Country Hotel.” We urge everyone to vote for The Canyon Villa in Paso Robles. We have stayed at this lovely place many times over the...
Our not-so-recent trip to Paso Robles featured the newly-revitalized Canyon Villa and Field Recordings Winery. In this second review we’ll look at two old favorites (Jack Creek Cellars and...
We spent a long July 10 weekend in Paso Robles. Naturally we spent two afternoons visiting wineries. Our exciting newcomer is Field Recordings. More on those folks in a minute. The Canyon Villa...
[Edited May 18 per a correction from Steve Burman of 3Steves Winery.] On June 1, we traveled to the Livermore Valley. Our excuse was that we needed to pick up six bottles of Steven Kent Cabernet...
During the Saturday Grand Tasting at Windfall Farms, we made two circuits of the wineries. The first iteration was for pinot noir. The second was for GSM and other wines. Thus we have the Paso...
[Updated January 19, 2014 with improved description of the role of the Cal Poly wine program.] The Saturday Grand Tasting was held at Windfall Farms, a venue that appeared to be at least a quasi...
Garagiste (n): “a group of innovative winemakers in the Bordeaux region, producing “Vins de garage”, “Garage wine”. A group emerged in the mid-1990s in reaction to the...
We headed south on July 5 to spend a few days in Paso Robles. Our original reason was to attend the first annual Forks & Corks event held at Halter Ranch winery. But we discovered a new...
The Pasadena Pinotfest has become a regular February event for my wife and I. Technically it’s in Altadena, but I guess they can call it anything they want. For lovers of pinot noir, this...