Introducing our New YouTube channel. Join us as we explore these stories through AVA’s and vineyards and the eyes of the winemakers. Wine it’s simply crushed and fermented grapes. The variations and the stories are what make it so fascinating....
Continuing on with our Wine country adventures, About a year ago a co-worker came back from a trip to Temecula Wine Country and told me that they had tasted at Lumiere Winery. Lumiere Banner The friend he was traveling with...
Winemaking in the Renzoni family dates to 1886, when Robert’s great grandfather Federico worked in the vineyards near Fano, a small Italian village on the shores of the Adriatic Sea. Federico and his father began making wine for family and...
Thornton winery is one of the first wineries that greet you as you drive into Temecula Wine Country. A Champagne house this French style chateau sits on a hill on the South Side of Rancho California Road. Opening in...
We headed up the street again to Saarloos and Sons, only to find them closed on this weekday just before the holidays. So…we took a leisurely walk around the town to see what else might be open. We ended up coming...
When we got to this point in our trip we woke up feeling wined out. So…we began the day with breakfast and Aebleskivers from the Solvang Restaurant. Great service and we even ended up with an extra order of aebelskivers...
Another Wine Maker not to miss while visiting Paso Robles. On our last day this trip in Paso Robles we stopped at: 4:00 pmTerry Hoage Vineyard Carol at Vina Robles suggested we stop here. She said they have...
When we find Enthusiastic Wine Geeks like ourselves at different wine tasting we like to get their opinion’s on their wine choices as sometimes this leads us to unique gems. 3:30 pm Fratelli Perato Wild Horse recommended this place for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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