The Santa Cruz Mountains Passport is one of the best. Buy a Passport and it doesn’t expire. You can visit each winery once, and there are plenty of visit. A mostly unexplored section of this wine region is on the … Continue reading
Bonny Doon Vineyard had a tasting room in the mountains in the town of Bonny Doon. A few years ago Randall Grahm moved his tasting room and winery to northern Santa Cruz. The large tasting room doubles as a gourmet … Continue reading
I’ve tasted at quiet little Vino Tabi a couple of times. The tasting room is in a working winery in a spiffed up industrial building. It is in a very nice neighborhood though. On one side is Bonny Doon Vineyards’ … Continue reading
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
When Katya and I find a wine that is particularly interesting and flavorful I put the empty bottle in my office and aggregate a few to blog about. While we like pretty much all the we pick up at wineries … Continue reading
I taste a lot of wine all over California but rarely blog about wine. All the wine is very good with only subtle differences. However, sometimes I bump into a winery that crafts their wines differently. I’m not giving a … 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