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Halter Ranch Vineyard is located in the beautiful hills of western Paso Robles. The Santa Lucia mountain range is the backdrop to the 2700-a...

Halter Ranch Vineyard is located in the beautiful hills of western Paso Robles. The Santa Lucia mountain range is the backdrop to the 2700-...

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Bending Branch Winery is as close as it gets to being a beloved Texas institution - and Texans don't toss about their institutions light...

The imaginary Bonny Doon timeline stretches from a 1954 decree in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, which banned aliens from landing their flying cigars ...

  With Earth Day approaching, it would be remiss of me to not tap out a few words about a collection of "wines of the earth," from...

From Bonny Doon Vineyard comes the 2019 Vin Gris De Cigare .  The winery's flagship pink wine is named for the reported alien spacecr...

If you're looking for something a little different, a glance in the direction of Bonny Doon Vineyards is always a good idea.  Bonny D...

White wines are not just for summers and salads.  There are rich, full-bodied whites which are bold and warming - perfect for the colder w...

Randall Grahm uses his Bonny Doon Vineyards as a pulpit from which to preach, proselytize and promote about grapes that are off the beat...

Hey, is it rosé season already?  Maybe it creeps up on me because it's always rosé season at my place.  We are taking a couple of week...

The 2013 Réserve is the same wine as the 2013 Le Cigare Blanc "normale," but it is aged in five-gallon glass demijohns. The ag...

The wines of Bonny Doon Vineyards are all about complexity. They are all about savory. Sometimes, they’re all about beeswax. The 2013 L...

One of the wonders of tasting Randall Grahm ’s Bonny Doon wines from year to year is tracking how they turn out. Bigger wineries, with hu...

The name Acquiesce means "To surrender, to become quiet." At the winery, they say, "we acquiesce to the grapes,,, and to na...

Le Cigare Blanc is the white counterpart to the always awesome Le Cigare Volant red blend, named for the alien spacecraft "banned by ...

Several years ago at the Ojai Wine Festival I tasted a white blend by Paso Robles producer  Lone Madrone  that I fell in love with.  It&...