George Yatchisin
George Yatchisin writes about food, wine and cocktails from Santa Barbara, where he lives with his amazing wife, dogs and one very old chicken.
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The event is a wonderful way to get a snapshot of the broader Central Coast, from Santa Barbara up to northern-most reaches of Paso Robles.
There are some bottles you can buy for a good cause.
These beers have a lower alcohol content, making them perfect for July 4th imbibing sessions.
Just because you can't grow grapes in LA proper doesn't mean you can't make the wine there.
How do wineries choose which festivals to attend, given it seems they can do one a week, and twice most summer Sundays
Some wineries say things like, "Well, we're organic, mostly, unless we really need to spray... plus all that paperwork...and the expense." Not this one.
Roussanne is a grape held in high esteem in California, though it's still a little rare. Here are the best bottles for sipping.
Chardonnay may have a bit of a low-brow reputation these days, but there are excellent bottles to be found. And it helps fight climate change!
Generally, wine pairing dinners mean the food comes first, and then sommeliers and winemakers try to figure vinous things out from there. At this dinner, it's the other way around.
One thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars and ninety-two cents of wine sits on a bar in front of me.
This book makes the case that California is leading the way in wine sustainability.
A futures tasting is an opportunity to get a lay of the land, and of a vintage, to begin to understand where a wine growing region might be headed.