It has been a busy summer for the Wine Questers team. We’ve added almost 100 wineries to our database and maps for Temecula, Santa Barbara County, and Paso Robles. We added 34 in Santa Barbara County by branching out from … Continue reading
Last Friday April 2 at 6 PM Katya and I hosted a Wine Questers SF Urban Meetup at the Winery Collective in SF near Fisherman’s Wharf. Attendance was not outstanding, only 6 of us, but the conversation and wines were … Continue reading
On Saturday January 10th about 60 wine questers met at a warehouse winery operation on Treasure Island in SF Bay for our first Wine Questers Taste n Tell. We tasted from these tiny boutique wineries: Vie, Blue Cellars, Treasure Island, … Continue reading
I added an olive oil tasting room category to WineQuesters.com. This was requested by a Paso Robles olive oil company. So now there is one online but others will probably join. We may add these to our Tweetup Tastings! There … Continue reading
On Saturday December 13 we had our first Wine Questers Tweetup Tasting. Three of us from the Twitter wine community met for lunch at Gerre Vineyard and Winery’s wonderful cafe. We then proceeded to taste and micro-blog our impression on … Continue reading
Katya and I enjoy winery picnics with gourmet food, beautiful table settings, and of course the winery’s wine. I’m thinking, should we publish our next picnic on Wine Questers, Twitter, etc. and see if a few folks want to join … Continue reading
Wine is all about emotion and connection to people, food, and place. A place could be a dining room, tasting room, vineyard picnic, romantic restaurant, or wherever else. As I’ve blogged before, context heavily influences taste. Out of curiosity I … Continue reading
As Katya and I headed out on Friday afternoon June 20 for the Calaveras County Passport Weekend we noticed a smoke plume starting to rise in the Santa Cruz Mountains. When we arrived at the motel in Angels Camp smoke … Continue reading