Jeff Stai of Twisted Oak Tweetered me Friday night that it was snowing in the Murphys area. Jeff knew that I want Sierra Foothills wine regions photos and videos with snow at the wineries and in the vineyards for our … Continue reading
Winter Wineland is a Russian River Wineroad event for the Alexander, Dry Creek, and Russian River regions in Sonoma County, California. There are well over 100 winery tasting rooms in these regions and the ambiance, and wine, is some of … Continue reading
I’ve been on the Highway 101 wine road for two days and gps mapped the wine towns of Paso Robles, Solvang, and Los Olivos. We’ll soon add them to our online maps. I’ll also use this info to produce a … Continue reading
There are three small Murphys / Calaveras County, CA wineries that are close together, rather bundled for a day trip, and are full of warm personality and taste variety. The three are on Highway 4 between Angels Camp and Murphys … 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
I tried really hard not to stay over in Murphys last Friday night. I only needed some fall colors for our upcoming video series on California wine regions so I could have blown through the region in a couple of … Continue reading
Back in June my wife Katya and I were wandering the main street of the Sierra Foothills wine town of Murphys during their passport event and met a very sociable family – the Tanners. Dick Tanner informed us that they … Continue reading
Last Thursday mid-day I was done with a meeting near Sacramento so I headed up Highway 50 to Placerville for one of my favorite wine tasting road trips. My purpose was shooting photography for our upcoming video series on each … Continue reading
I just returned from a three day video shoot of three Sierra Foothills regions; El Dorado, Amador, and Murphys / Calaveras. I travel and visit hundreds of tasting rooms a year and only buy wines that I find unusually interesting … Continue reading
As we drove south on Hwy 101 toward the Salinas Valley, and more importantly the Santa Lucia Highlands vineyards of Monterey County, Katya and I pledged to avoid tasting rooms. We wanted to focus on the photography for our upcoming … Continue reading