Now And Zin Wine

Rancho de Vega was established in 1853 in Santa Barbara County's Santa Ynez Valley. The estate now has a vineyard and a winery, and the ...

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On visits to Santa Barbara County wine country, I always like to come home with a bottle of something special. The most recent excursion too...

Santa Barbara wine country stretches county-wide, and it is a big county. The vineyards north of the city are a great place to hang out, but...

Magistrate Wines are a bargain brand, a supermarket wine. It is available, usually, for less than $10 and the company has a small line of wi...

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

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

Proprietors Georges  and  Daniel Daou , of Daou Vineyards in Paso Robles, credit their mountain home - Daou Mountain - with being able to ...

Qupé specializes in growing and making Rhône-style wines from the Bien Nacido Vineyard in Santa Maria, the Sawyer Lindquist Vineyard in the ...

California wine négociant Cameron Hughes owns no vineyards and has no official winery.  He sniffs out good wine which has already been prod...

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

This bottle of dessert wine had been lying about for a couple of years, since Denise and our friend Guido landed at the Casa Dumetz tastin...

Here's a date to put on your calendar:  May 12, 2018.  That’s the next Garagiste Festival , a Northern Exposure event set for Sonoma. ...

A trip to Santa Barbara County's Santa Ynez Valley is always set off with a Rideau Vineyard  visit.  Recently, we left L.A. early enou...

One of my favorite vineyards is Bien Nacido , in the tiny Santa Barbara County town of Santa Maria. The wines made from those grapes speak...

On a recent day trip to the Santa Ynez Valley, we stopped in at Shoestring Winery . It's on Highway 246 in Solvang, close to Ostrichla...

Jim and Mary Dierberg feel this wine is one that is worthy of their "250-year plan." The couple owned a winery in Missouri and...

Santa Barbara County's  Fess Parker  winery is branching out. In the spirit of their founder's pioneering ways, the heirs of the b...

Santa Barbara County's  Fess Parker  winery is branching out. In the spirit of their founder's pioneering ways, the heirs of the b...

Santa Barbara County's Fess Parker winery is branching out. In the spirit of their founder's pioneering ways, the heirs of the ba...