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Showing posts with label Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara County. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Fiddling Around In Santa Barbara County

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One of Santa Barbara County's treasures is Fiddlehead Cellars , which I like to think of as the little winery that could. Kathy Joseph ...
Friday, June 12, 2020

Blood Of The Vines - I Want Your Blood!

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Pairing wine with movies!  See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell .  It...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Happy Canyon Cabernet: Dascomb Cellars

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Dascomb Cellars Patriarch Don Dascomb bought the estate vineyard in 1974, starting a family business which sold their fruit to other win...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Martellotto La Bomba Cabernet Sauvignon

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There is a warm spot in Santa Barbara County's Santa Ynez Valley known as Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara County. It is in the east end ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Cimarone Cabernet Franc Refreshes The Grape Rut

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There are - as the t-shirts and bumper stickers say - so many grapes and so little time.  For this reason, I always try to avoid getting s...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Cimarone Gran Premio Sangiovese 2012

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courtesy NileGuide Guido and Tina invited us to a Hindu vespers service, and we went with them.  The sanctuary  (left) is probably the q...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Cimarone Cilla's Blend Red Wine

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We should all have retirement projects like Cimarone Wines and Three Creek Vineyard.   Roger and Priscilla Higgins opted for grape crush...
Monday, June 2, 2014

Cimarone Wines' 3CV Bank 2012 Red Blend

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Cimarone Wines and Three Creek Vineyard were the 2001 “retirement project” of Roger and Priscilla Higgins .  Those who know how difficult...