Located right off the 101 Freeway in lovely Santa Maria, CA is a wonderful tasting room and marketplace called Costa de Oro - http://www.cdowinery.com/. You can taste wine, purchase fresh produce, cheeses, snacks and other fun decor items. Let me just tell you...this is some … [Read more...]
Pithy Little Wine Company
Right in the middle of downtown San Luis Obispo is a fresh new wine tasting room called Pithy Little Wine Company - http://www.pithywine.com/. We battled the pouring rain and found our way in on the afternoon of their grand opening. What a super cool place! The tasting room is … [Read more...]
At Home with Ranchero Cellars
Ranchero Cellars. Heard of it? If you haven't heard of this wine, you're missing out and you'll be hearing a lot about it in the near future. If you have heard of Ranchero Cellars, you very well just might love it, like we do! This was a Rhone White blend, 65% Grenache Blanc, … [Read more...]
At Home with Chumeia
We opened up a bottle of 2007 Chumeia "California" Chardonnay at home. It was a pretty inexpensive bottle - under $8, and kind of got what we paid for. Neither of us were crazy about it, Hoot got a little musty-ness in it and Annie got some over-ripe pineapple, both of us got … [Read more...]
At Home with J. Lohr
Hi there...it's us again. We opened a 2007 J. Lohr Old Vines Zinfandel for some home-tastin' tonight. J. Lohr is one of our all time favorite wineries, the people, the wine, the atmosphere...it's all good. We used to live out in San Miguel and 'had' to pass the J. Lohr tasting … [Read more...]
Out Tasting at Clayhouse Winery
Frolicking around in downtown Paso Robles, Annie in her pigtails, and Hoot with his camera! We landed at Clayhouse Winery's Tasting Room...http://www.clayhousewines.com. Located on the corner of 13th and Pine, just off the square, it's a great location for a tasting room. … [Read more...]
Monday Night #4
Another Monday...it's that day of the week when you realize the magnitude of what's to come...or what's not to come very soon - Friday. Hmmph. The sort of painful transition from enjoying your weekend with friends and family to back at work! Not that work is bad, don't get me … [Read more...]
JanKris Winery
Out and about tasting wine...well, somebody has to do it, right? Just out the 46 West a little bit is JanKris Winery - http://www.jankriswinery.com/. What a wonderful find! They're in a cute old house, with a new addition that will be open soon for tasting. They've got a … [Read more...]
Grey Wolf Vineyards
About 2 miles West on 46, you'll find Grey Wolf Vineyards and Cellars. An old farmhouse on the top of a hill has been converted into the tasting room for this small, family run winery. Grey Wolf's tasting list consists of all red wines, Grenache, Tempranillo, Zinfandel, … [Read more...]
At Home With Candor
Sitting at the kitchen table again...tasting wine and smelling random things from the cupboards. Yup, that's what we're doing! Candor, the 4th label out of Hope Family Vineyards - http://www.treana.com/ - is their newest label, and designed to be good, affordable, drinkable … [Read more...]