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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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 | 
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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 »
February 10, 2012 | Posted by Michelle Ball
by Michelle Ball photos by Jeremy Ball, Bottle Branding She’s beautiful, sensitive and on occasion even seductive. She responds well to attention and care, but will show badly if left unprotected. She can be surprisingly sweet and lush, or sometimes racy and lean. She exudes an eau de earth unlike any other grape, intoxicating [...]
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Categories: Archives, Fine Food, Food & Wine Pairing, Wine Making, Wine Tasting, Wineries | Tags: bottle branding, Central City Market, Cliffs Resort, clos pepe, Flying Goat, Hitching Post II, Lido's Restaurant, melville, pinot noir, Pismo Beach, Succulent Cafe, wes hagen, WOPN | 1 Comment »
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 »
August 12, 2011 | Posted by Santa Ynez Wine Club
The Santa Rita Hills Winegrowers Alliance and vintners’ who craft wines from the grapes grown in this famed region, are having their annual Fire and Wine weekend August 12-14th, 2011. With wine events going on all weekend, many sought after vintners’ will be on hand to pour special releases, barrel samples, library wines and current [...]
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Categories: Wine Tasting, Wineries | Tags: alma rosa, avant tapas and wine bar, avant tapas and wine bar buellton, cargasacchi, clos pepe, cold heaven, cold heaven wine, d'alfanso-curran, d'vine lompoc, dierberg, dierberg cellars, dragonette, el jabali vineyard, fiddlehead, ken brown, la purisima mission, Sta. Rita Hills | No Comments »
