Paso Trip to Cass Winery
The drive to Paso started very early. The drive was uneventful and we arrived at Cass Winery in Paso Roble at 1:30 or so. To get to the winery you take Union road off of 46 West right by Tobin...
A day with a little less wine and a lot of hiking!
The next day of our trip will find us in Carmel-by-the-Sea. We are hikers so we will spend the day at Point Lobos, weather permitting. I know we will hit the Cypress Grove trail. The Monterey Cypress is only found...
On to Monterey!
So our travel plans will next take us to Monterey. It will be an early morning out of Paso and then we will head up Hwy 101 to Salinas to Monterey. Now it will be early morning, so we won’t...
Wine and the Pacific Coast Highway part 3
Day 3 of our California trip will be spent on the East side of Paso Robles. The day will start at J. Lohr. Much like Castoro, you can readily find J. Lohr wines in any local city and in many...
Wine and the Pacific Coast Highway part 2
Continuing with the travel plans for our upcoming trip, here’s the plan for day 2! After arriving the night before in Paso Robles and doing tastings at Cass Winery & Wild Horse, soaking in a hot spring spa at River Oaks...
Wine and the Pacific Coast Highway part 1
I’m a planner. No really! Michael and I are planning a trip on the Pacific Coast Highway and of course I am finding as much wine country as possible to cover on the trip. I started with my typical excel...
Deerfield Ranch, here and there.
When Michael and I were in Sonoma last December, we stopped by Hartford Family Wineries and had a great conversation with one of the guys in the tasting room. After chatting with him for a while we realized that a...
Keeping up with cellar & tasting notes!
This was the weekend to update our cellar data. It’s not that the wine cellar is large, it’s just a bookcase and not completely full, but we don’t update the data on it often enough. We use Vinocella http://www.vinocella.net/....
Taking wine notes and using wine apps
I am a self proclaimed “wine geek”. I’m still early on my learning curve and I have a need to document as I learn. So I have investigated wine applications for wine storage and for tasting notes. After looking around...
Preston of Dry Creek
When you think of wine country often it is a French or Tuscan image that comes to mind. Preston of Dry Creek takes you back to simple Americana. It’s located in Dry Creek at the far north end of the...
Fantastic Olive Oil and Balsamic in Temecula
Michael and I have been to Temecula several times. Always on my list were some downtown tasting rooms, but somehow, as with all our wine country trips, we don’t make it. We get wrapped up in the vineyards and never...
Watermelon salad and grilled tuna
I have a new favorite summer salad. Michael came across this recipe online from Food Network(Giada De Laurentiis Recipe) and we made a few adjustments for what we had handy. We had picked up a small watermelon at the farmers...
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