This past Wednesday evening, Halter Ranch Winery held an industry party at their property on the west side of Paso Robles. It was cool because it was the first time we’ve seen their newly finished wine caves, which were awesome by the way. … [Read more...]

I posed this question on our Hoot n Annie Facebook page and proceeded to get 112 comments (this included my comments in response to everyone) on what alcohol concoction would cure the common cold. I must say, I was impressed with the range of cocktails that people came up with … [Read more...]

Annie and I were chatting recently about how we should start doing a blog post at the beginning of each month about our favorite wines from the previous month. I will list my top 3 and Annie will list hers, the point of this exercise is to partially keep better tabs on the wines … [Read more...]

This blog post is kind of a two part thing, one part is about this unique and interesting contest going on in San Luis Obispo County (where Annie and I live) and the other part is a bit of selfishness on my part. I will cover the contest part first. The contest is called … [Read more...]

We’ve always enjoyed the wines from Jack Creek Cellars but it had been quite some time since we had visited their tasting room on Jack Creek Road off of Vineyard Drive here in beautiful Paso Robles. One of the best things about wine tasting in Paso Robles is the drive. No matter … [Read more...]

Some tidbits from Paso Robles; as I’ve said in previous blog posts, we get lots of emails regarding stuff happening in Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo County. While I used to read these emails and then hit delete, I now figure we should share this stuff with you guys. I’m sure … [Read more...]

Food is an essential part of everyone’s life but when looked from the social stand point, it really is an incredible aspect of our lives. We see it when we break bread at different holidays, go out to a nice restaurant with your spouse or friends, have a gathering at your home … [Read more...]

Towards the end of Annie’s pregnancy when she didn’t feel like cooking and we obviously didn’t feel like going out much, we started using this food delivery service called Menu Club. I’m not sure where Annie stumbled across it but there are a few things that stand out to me about … [Read more...]