Day 3 in Paso 1st Stop, J. Lohr
10 am J. Lohr Arne helped us in the tasting room. He is fairly new to Paso, but retired to Paso recently and loves wine and he said he was a club member for years. We like going to tasting...
Wine Making
Red Soles Winery, Paso Robles
After Tablas Creek we hit Lone Madrone, Kenneth Volk more on them later, then went to….Red Soles. We like to get referrals from enthusiastic Wine Geeks like ourselves, the guy at Wildhorse said we should try Red Soles. He was...
Tablas Creek, Part two
This years crop (2011) was low similar to 2009. But the fruit they did get was high quality. They lost all of their Viognier to a spring frost in late April. They turned on the fans to bring down the...
Over the Hills, Through the woods, Tablas Creek we Go!
Early morning touring Tablas Creek Vineyards with Steve Fascinating, Here are the Highlights. All of the vines were sent from Chateau Neuf de Pape they spent 3 years in quarantine before they could graft them to american root stock and...
Wildhorse the finding and the tasting
So we left Cass and turned on the GPS only to find we had no signal. After floundering trying to find the back way to Wild Horse, we gave up and headed back to 46 West to 101 South and...
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...
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...
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...
My next wine, Fornlorn Hope
I try to keep up on my wine blogs and a while ago Terroist http://blog.terroirist.com/ posted a link to http://winereviewonline.com/Blake_Gray.cfm a W. Blake Gray article on Matthew Rorick. I am infatuated with him and his philosophy and style of wine...
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