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Showing posts with label tasting room. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tasting room. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Wine Tasting In Los Olivos - St. Avalo Wines

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It was a cold and blustery day in May, the threat of rain hanging in the dark clouds above Santa Barbara County. I was looking for the tasti...
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...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

SBC Tasting Room: Rideau Vineyards

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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...
Friday, July 17, 2015

SBC Tasting Room: Mosby Wines

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We made a trip out of Los Angeles to Santa Barbara County wine country recently. My wife and I, along with our good and dear friend Guido ...
Friday, July 10, 2015

SBC Tasting Room: Lafond Winery And Vineyards

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We made a trip out of Los Angeles to Santa Barbara County wine country recently. My wife and I, along with our good and dear friend Guido ...
Friday, July 3, 2015

SBC Tasting Room: Fess Parker Winery

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We made a trip out of Los Angeles to Santa Barbara County wine country recently. My wife and I, along with our good and dear friend Guido ...
Monday, June 29, 2015

SBC Tasting Room: Dierberg/Star Lane

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We made a trip out of Los Angeles to Santa Barbara County wine country recently. My wife and I, along with our good and dear friend Guid...
Monday, April 20, 2015

A Day Trip To Santa Barbara County Wine Country

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Road trips to wine country are the best road trips.  For us, they are practically the only road trips. The beauty of the land up north o...
Friday, October 12, 2012

Malibu Wine: Cornell Winery And The Old Place

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A bit west of Los Angeles, in the hills north of Malibu, there is a wonderful wine destination hidden away.   Cornell Winery , and The Ol...
Monday, January 2, 2012

WAGNER FAMILY OF WINES

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You may not be aware you've had wine made by the Wagner family .  If you've had Conundrum or Caymus, Mer Soleil, Meiomi or   Be...
Tuesday, August 16, 2011

CIMARONE 3CV VIOGNIER 2009

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I sneaked away from my neighborhood recently for a glass of wine at the  Colorado Wine Company  in Eagle Rock, California, between Glend...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

3TWENTY WINE LOUNGE: A NEW WINE SPOT FOR LOS ANGELES

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I'm always on the lookout for another nice spot to pop into and taste some wine.  Barely open a month at this writing is  3Twenty Wi...
Monday, August 8, 2011

BETTINELLI CABERNET SAUVIGNON 1998

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When I stopped in to the  Left Coast Wine Bar and Gallery  in Glendale - across the street from the Americana at Brand shopping mall - I...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

VAMPIRE LOUNGE AND TASTING ROOM, BEVERLY HILLS

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According to the Tom Petty song, "Free Fallin'," the vampires in the San Fernando Valley "move west down Ventura Boul...
Thursday, May 5, 2011

CASS VINEYARD AND WINERY, PASO ROBLES

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Cass Vineyard and Winery  in on the eastside of Paso Robles, in California's Central Coast AVA.  They are due east of Templeton Gap,...
Sunday, May 2, 2010

Tasting Room: Consilience, Los Olivos

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I paid my first-ever visit to the Consilience tasting room in Los Olivos recently, and I came away wishing I hadn't waited so long. I...