Posts belonging to 'Wine Maker'
November 2, 2012 | Posted by Santa Ynez Wine Club
Nikki Nelson, an owner of Liquid Farm, shared some of her thoughts on the 2012 harvest. Liquid Farm is producing old-world inspired, mineral driven Chardonnays exclusively out of the Sta. Rita Hills. We highly recommend you becoming familiar with this label and enjoying their unique wines before they reach cult status. The Great Yield Debate. [...]
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Categories: Wine Maker, Wine Making, Wineries | 
Tags: dragonette cellars, fiddlestix vineyard, hilliard bruce, liquid farms, los olivos, santa barbara, santa ynez valley, solvang, st. rita hills | 
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October 23, 2012 | Posted by Santa Ynez Wine Club
Originally Posted on santabarbarawinetalk.com by Phil Carpenter Wife said I should get up to Lompoc one more time before she goes on a business trip. I couldn’t grab my car keys fast enough. Posted I was on my way up on Facebook and Nikki Nelson from Liquid Farm said I should stop by for barrel [...]
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Categories: Food & Wine Pairing, Real Estate / Vineyards, Wine Maker, Wine Tasting, Wineries | Tags: arcadian winery, bratcher winery, hocus pocus wines, lompoc wine ghetto, piedrasassi, santa ynez wine club, wine, zotovich winery | No Comments »
May 10, 2012 | Posted by Jon McDaniel
A question that I am forced to ask myself from time to time – “Are some people just crazy and don’t know it?” Time and time again I am reminded that, yes, some people wake up and proceed to live in an alternate reality. That glaring, Las Vegas-bright reminder came to me the other day [...]
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Categories: Archives, Featured Wines, Wine Maker, Wineries | Tags: axis mundi, babcock, clos pepe, fontes-phillips, pinot gris, pinot noir, red blends, santa barbara, santa barbara wines, santa ynez, sierra madre vineyard, st. rita hills, wine, wine places, wine tasting | No Comments »
March 16, 2012 | Posted by Santa Ynez Wine Club
Originally Written for Edible Santa Barbara, by Laura Sanchez Photography by Fran Collin You’ll never see their names on a bottle of wine or find them pouring samples at a swanky event. But theirs are the hands that tend the vines, pick the fruit, drive the forklifts and guide the juice down its alchemistic path. [...]
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Categories: Archives, Wine Maker | Tags: dierberg and star lane vineyards, edible santa barbara, fran collin, laura sanchez, stolpman vineyards, Terravant Wine Co, tolosa vineyards | 1 Comment »
February 16, 2012 | Posted by Michelle Ball
by Michelle Ball photos by Jeremy Ball, Bottle Branding Italy has it all. Great fashion, beautiful people, priceless art, delicious comfort-food, and amazing wines including those that flow freely from the tap like water. In Italy, wine is about food, friends and family. It’s a sort of communion that is the prerequisite for every meal. In [...]
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Categories: Archives, Fine Food, Food & Wine Pairing, Wine Maker, Wine Making, Wine Tasting | Tags: blair fox cellars, clos pepe, fiddlehead cellars, jon mcdaniel, kathy joseph, los olivos wine merchant & cafe, palmina, santa ynez wine club, Stolpman, wes hagen | 3 Comments »
December 30, 2011 | Posted by Michelle Ball
By Michelle Ball Photographed by Jeremy Ball While working in the tasting room, I’m often asked the question “How did you learn so much about wine?” Let’s face it, you can dedicate a lifetime to learning everything there is to know about wine and still not know everything. I’m not that old, so technically I [...]
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Categories: Archives, Food & Wine Pairing, Wine Maker, Wine Tasting | Tags: clos pepe, flying goat cellars, foxen wines, liquid farms, los olivos, santa barbara county wineries, santa ynez valley, santa ynez valley wines, santa ynez wine club, santa ynez wine tours, solvang, tyler wines, wes hagen, wine tasting | 4 Comments »
