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
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
Compared to the fun times we have at other regions’ passport events this Santa Cruz Mountains event sucked. We’ve experienced better there. We visited Ridge, Pichetti, Naumann, Savannah-Chanelle, Loma Prieta and Silver Mountain. Two that were on the passport weren’t … Continue reading
I hang out on Twitter with a bunch of wine biz and wine blogger folks. Late Friday PM I noticed a little post offering two free tickets for the Silver Pass. What’s that? I googled it and found that the … Continue reading
You probably think I mean Murphys with a dozen tasting rooms in a small Gold Rush town. Murphys is wonderful and we can’t wait to return, but I have another place in mind. Near the Central Valley town of Lockford … Continue reading
During our video shoots we’ve noticed a few recent changes at wineries that are noteworthy: 1) Silver Oak in Napa Valley just opened their new tasting room. The wonderful old one burned and they built a whole new winery. My … Continue reading