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Showing posts with label Santa Maria Valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Santa Maria Valley. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Jaffurs Wine Cellars In Santa Barbara

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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...
Friday, September 29, 2017

Bien Nacido And Solomon Hills Wine Estates

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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...
Friday, September 1, 2017

California Pinot Noir From Dierberg

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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...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Wood You Like Some Chardonnay?

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Dierberg Vineyard is just 14 miles from Pacific Ocean, in the southern part of Santa Maria Valley. Mary and Jim Dierberg came west from...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Santa Barbara County Wine: Presqu'ile

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Driving California's Central Coast offers so many great places to stop and enjoy life that volumes have been written about them. The...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Santa Maria Valley Pinot Blanc

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A New Year's Eve day trip to Santa Barbara County brought us, once again, to Sanford Winery's outpost west of Buellton. It was rai...
Friday, January 6, 2017

X Marks The Spot For Syrah

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I'm sure you have a particular wine brand, or winemaker, to which you gravitate. You can circle around, spinning through wine space, t...
Tuesday, July 5, 2016

DC Bigshots Sip Santa Maria Valley

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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Santa Barbara's L.A. Road Trip: Rhône Varieties

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Living in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara is "our" wine region. A mere two hours north of L.A., Santa Barbara wine country offers nea...
Monday, May 23, 2016

Santa Barbara's L.A. Road Trip: Chardonnay

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Living in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara is "our" wine region. A mere two hours north of L.A., Santa Barbara wine country offers nea...
Friday, July 24, 2015

The North And South Of Chardonnay With Castello di Amorosa

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The Napa Valley winery known as Castello di Amorosa is fashioned after a Tuscan castle. It fits that a good number of the wines produced ...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Riverbench Mesa Pinot Noir 2011

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Riverbench Vineyard was established in 1973, and for decades it supplied great Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes to Santa Barbara County w...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Clos de Gilroy 2012 Central Coast Grenache

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Randall Grahm is known more for his Rhône varietal wines - he is, ya know, the original Rhône Ranger - but he does a great job with any ...
Friday, August 9, 2013

White Wines Of Santa Barbara County

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It was so nice to be included in the #winechat on July 17th, 2013, the subjects of which were some amazing white wines of Santa Barbara...
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Three Syrah Wines From Bonny Doon Vineyards

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Bonny Doon Vineyards ’ chief Randall Grahm has made wine from many different grape varieties during his illustrious career, but the ones...
Monday, August 6, 2012

Summer Wine: Andrew Murray Viognier 2011

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Viognier is a great choice for a summertime beverage.  I had the pleasure of finally getting around to opening a bottle of Viognier that ...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Are You Ready For Some Chardonnay?

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The variety that wine has to offer appeals to me so much that I often find myself passing up the standard stash of grape varieties in fav...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

SANTA MARIA VALLEY WINE GUIDE

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If you want to go wine tasting in the Santa Maria Valley, but don't know too much about the area or the wineries found there, here&#...