Good friends had rented a house in Carmel for three weeks and invited us to spend a few days there and enjoy the town and golf at local courses. We thought we would turn it into our first road trip and tasting adventure since...
Read MoreAfter tasting through an ever-broadening array of Rosé wines over the past two months, we were pleased to find several excellent values, including some with depth and style. Our favorites were mostly from Cotes de Provence and...
Read MoreIn getting an early start on firing up the barbie as the days get longer and the nights warmer, we’ve been sampling more robust red wines that can be a match for grilled foods. The dishes ranged from burgers and bratwurst to...
Read MoreOne strategy for calibrating your palate is to taste wines made from the same varietal grape and decide on styles you like. This is best done blind, where a co-conspirator buys the wines and another puts them in numbered brown...
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Heading into the holiday season, we started tasting potential party-pleasing wines to add to your...
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During the early days of running the San Diego Chapter of WINO (Wine Investigation for Novices and...
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The Paso Robles Wine Country Alliance stopped in San Diego on July 30 as part of its grand tasting...
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For your party shopping pleasures, here are 21 of the best values from the several hundred wines...
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UT San Diego featured our fall escape to Paso Robles in its recent travel section. For starters:...
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The challenge with plotting your wine adventures around Paso Robles is narrowing the field from...
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Tucked away in the Sierra Foothills is one of the more concentrated tasting adventures in California or anywhere else: the town of Murphys, with 24 tasting rooms within easy walking distance along a one-mile stretch of Main Street. The wines carry…
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The Family Winemakers of California produce an annual tasting event at the Del Mar Fairgrounds that could be the wine tasting equivalent of exploring a dense rain forest in search of the rarities of nature. 180 wineries poured some 950 wines at th…
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