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kukkula, Paso Robles

April 20, 2011

Well, we’ve finally made it to kukkula! I’ve been looking forward to this day for ages, ever since we tasted their wines at the Paso Robles wine festival in 2009 and 2010. Our good friends, Aime and Whitney, knowing my admiration for all things kukkula, even sent me a couple bottles of their delicious Lothario, [...]

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Caliza Winery, Paso Robles

April 13, 2011

Caliza is one of the lucky few Paso Robles wineries to be mentioned with high praise recently in the pages of Wine Spectator. The magazine referred to the winemakers/owners, Pam and Carl Bowker, as the “new kids on the block.” Pam alluded to that on our recent tasting visit. Comfortably past childhood (husband Carl is [...]

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JUSTIN Vineyards and Winery, Paso Robles

April 7, 2011

The first thing that ever comes to mind when considering JUSTIN is why one always seems to see it written like that, in all-caps: J-U-S-T-I-N. That’s so loud and unnecessary. This place is JUSTI-fiably famous in Paso and elsewhere. The lettering is too in your face for my taste. The next thing that I always [...]

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Chouinard Vineyards, Castro Valley

March 7, 2011

Hegui and I decided to go to Chouinard as part of our recent Livermore Valley wine tasting meet-up. They got an excellent review on ChowHound and they produce Rhône varieties, which we adore. Even though we’ve been, I still don’t quite know how to situate them on the map. Many of their grapes are grown [...]

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Concannon Vineyard, Livermore Valley

March 2, 2011

Concannon may be familiar to you from supermarket shelves. I know that I was beguiled by them for years whenever I browsed my local Safeway. Strangely, I’d never considered trying to visit until our good friend, Kristen B, suggested a day-trip to Livermore Valley. She was pulling together a group and had a friend, Jennifer, [...]

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2003 Stryker Sonoma E1k Sonoma County

February 9, 2011

This was our final bottle of Stryker Sonoma wine. We’ve been members of their wine club for ages but, taking my own advice about clubs, it is time to move on. I still enjoy Stryker wines quite well. I’m just cash poor and want to focus on my new darling, pinot noir, with what I’ve [...]

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Michel-Schlumberger Wines, Sonoma County

January 24, 2011

We hadn’t really known anything about Michel-Schlumberger until we were invited for a visit through our blog by Jim Morris, Vice President of Consumer Sales and Marketing for the winery. That’s a first for us. It is flattering to get invited to something, so we arranged to go for a visit and tour. They waived [...]

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2008 Eos Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Paso Robles

January 12, 2011

Eos Estate was named after the Goddess of the Dawn. Eos, the goddess, has an amazing history. Apparently her role is to open the Gates of Heaven so that the Sun Chariot can climb into the sky. This Greek god and goddess site says that she had an affair with Ares, which made Aphrodite jealous. [...]

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Trefethen, Napa County

November 22, 2010

It has been about seven years since the WC tasting crew has visited beautiful Trefethen Family Vineyards in the Oak Knoll AVA of Napa Valley. We waited too long! The winery, on Oak Knoll Avenue between Highway 29 and Silverado Trail, is a magnificently lovely property in the fall. You enter through a handsome set [...]

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Press Club, San Francisco

November 2, 2010

Press Club is this amazingly stylish wine tasting bar in the heart of downtown San Francisco. We recently went on a Friday evening to celebrate the birthday of our long-time friend, Fernando. Happy B-day, man! Actually, we’d gone to look at Press Club before, but only in the afternoon. Then it seemed completely dead. Friday [...]

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