East Side Adventures in Paso Robles — Wine, Sculptures, Parties on the Backroads
The challenge with plotting your wine adventures around Paso Robles is narrowing the field from...
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by Tom Gable | Feb 25, 2013 | California, Discoveries, Touring, Values | 0
The challenge with plotting your wine adventures around Paso Robles is narrowing the field from...
Read Moreby Tom Gable | Jan 1, 2013 | California, Discoveries, Touring | 0
It has been some five years since we last cruised into Paso Robles and stopped by its town square for a luncheon break to plan our adventures among some 110 local wineries. We had first visited in the 1970s when the area around Templeton and Paso …
Read Moreby Tom Gable | Nov 19, 2012 | California, Discoveries, Photography, Touring | 0
Touring many fine wineries in the Paso Robles area. One new find, Kukkula, which means ???high place??? in Finnish. More photos and notes later.
Read Moreby Tom Gable | Sep 17, 2012 | Discoveries, Oregon, Touring | 0
In the two previous postings on wine adventures into the 9,000-square-mile Willamette Valley, Oregon???s largest American Viticultural Area (AVA), we covered the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay clones used to make their best Pinot Noir (Dijon clones) and …
Read Moreby Tom Gable | Aug 31, 2012 | California, Discoveries, Touring, Values | 0
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…
Read Moreby Tom Gable | Jun 1, 2012 | Discoveries, Oregon, Touring | 0
As with any other major wine growing area, touring in the 9,000-square-mile Willamette Valley, Oregon???s largest American Viticultural Area (AVA), is best approached selectively and in small chunks. In our misspent youth when tastings were free, we…
Read Moreby Tom Gable | Apr 30, 2012 | Discoveries, Oregon, Touring | 1
For fans of the grapes of Burgundy and wine-related travel, the Willamette Valley is worth discovering before the crowds arrive. The 150-mile long and 60-mile wide valley is Oregon???s largest American Viticultural Area (AVA). It has some 200 wineri…
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