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California Bordeaux Part 3 – Monterey County
As we continue our survey of California Bordeaux, we arrive in Monterey County this week. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are the grape varieties the region is best known...
California Bordeaux Part 2: Paso Robles
The next stop on our virtual tour of California Bordeaux is Paso Robles. The area is gaining more and more attention each year as one of the premier growing regions...
Labor Day Cocktails
Labor Day Weekend usually marks the official end of summer. While we are not ready for the heavy wool coats and scarf’s, the new season will come with some wonderful...
California Bordeaux Part 1: the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Santa Clara Valley
The vintners of California have embraced the grape varieties of Bordeaux planting acres and acres of vineyards. Given their popularity amongst the wine drinking...
SIGNATURE SIPS AT BALEEN KITCHEN
If you are traveling to enjoy the 17th Annual Redondo Beach Surf & Turf Lobster Festival, to be held at the Seaside Lagoon on September 21 through 23, don’t...
Wines of the Week: A Fine Quartet from Greece
With legendary regions like Roja, Bordeaux, and Chianti claiming such prominent places in the world of wine, it can be easy to overlook a country like Greece. For...
George’s Rants and Raves: 1876 Vodka
Have you ever experienced an epiphany? No, that’s not some kind of Polish sausage; it’s a sudden and striking realization of deep religious, philosophical or...
Greenhook-Ginsmiths Beach Plum Gin Cocktails
The first ever to be commercially produced, Greenhook Ginsmiths Beach Plum Gin is a one-of-a-kind delicious product designed to be sipped by itself and/or added...
Italian Grapes, California Wine: Tamás Estates – Livermore Valley
At Tamás Estates, they’ve brought a little bit of Italy to the San Francisco Bay Area. While many Cali-Itali producers opt for a more fruit forward style,...
George’s Rants and Raves: Avion Anejo Tequila
Ahhh, deadlines! In one way, shape, form or another, we all have them in virtually everything we do and rarely, if ever, escape from them. In writing this regular...
