Adding 82 more wineries!
We are in Paso Robles finishing up a 3 day winery tasting room mapping trip here and in Santa Barbara County. We will soon add 48 winery profiles for Paso and 34 for Santa Barbara County. Most are new or … Continue reading
Category Archives: Road trips
The iPad is a stunnng success for us.
Over Memorial Day weekend we drove from San Jose down I-5 / I-210 / I-15 to Temecula, back north to a friend’s home in Crestline in the San Bernardino Mountains, and across the L.A. basin to Santa Barbara and north … Continue reading
Hotel Luca – Yountville, Napa Valley
It wasn’t really our plan to stay in the Napa Valley after a Saturday video shoot at Clos Pegase Winery. Our budget is tight and Napa Marriott, always helpful that way, was full up and couldn’t take us. As we … Continue reading
Russian River Barrel Tasting – 1st Weekend
Wow, 25 wineries during the 3 day first weekend of the Barrel Tasting event. We spit and dumped so ended the day quite sober. We also preserved our palates by avoiding the barrels and focusing on finished wines. And we … Continue reading
Satori Cellars – a Gilroy treat
Little Satori Cellars is a new winery north-east of Gilroy in the southern Santa Clara Valley. They are only open the 3rd weekend of the month now but intend to be open on all weekends starting in July 2010. Please … Continue reading
Holly’s Hill, El Dorado wine region
This past weekend we finished off a bottle of Holly’s Hill Vineyards El Dorado 06 estate Grenache. Medium body with an earthy Pinot-like nose and a fine lasting finish. It has just a light hint of sweetness but is not … Continue reading
Napa Valley Marriott is a tasting room?
Napa Valley Marriott guests are invited to a complementary tasting in the afternoons most days. The wines are from quality vintners in the Napa Valley, many of them very small operations, and the pouring is done by the vintners or … Continue reading
Escorting newbies on the Sonoma wine trails – learned somthing…
I picked up sisters Amber and Britney at SFO early Wednesday AM a couple of weeks ago and headed across the Golden Gate bridge for adventure. I’ve known them since their births in Alaska and now that they are out … Continue reading
Heller Estate in the Carmel Valley – Cab Franc
The Town of Carmel is known for Bing Crosby, Clint Eastwood, cozy cottage homes, tiny shops, and a beautiful beach next to Monterey Bay. Carmel is well-visited but 11 miles up the Carmel Valley is the Village of Carmel Valley … Continue reading
Hillcrest Terrace Winery
We visited this winery last weekend in Santa Cruz, CA. It is a tiny working winery in an industrial park building. Nothing romantic but Bill Miiler, the vintner, is enthusiastic and the barrels are there for an impromptu barrel tasting. … Continue reading