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Monthly Archives: April 2016

Hospice du Rhone returns and Rhone wine lovers celebrate

Written by Allison Levine on April 29, 2016
Lifestyle Wine

Fans of the 22 Rhone varieties — bourboulenc, camarese, carignane, cinsault, clairette blanc, clairette rose, counoise, grenache blanc, grenache gris, grenache noir, marsanne, mourvedre, muscardin, muscat a petits grains, picpoul blanc, picpoul noir, roussanne, syrah, terret, ugni blanc, vaccarese, viognier — reunited last week in Paso Robles for Hospice du Rhone.

Hospice du Rhone 2016

From winemakers to wine trade to wine enthusiasts, hundreds of attendees enjoyed two full days of seminars, walk-around tastings, lunches and dinners featuring more than 150 wineries from France, California, Washington, Australia, Oregon and Spain.

With the mission of promoting Rhone variety wines, Hospice du Rhone has been an event that both the wine trade and wine enthusiasts have anticipated year after year. But after 20 years in Paso Robles, Hospice du Rhone took a break after 2012. In April 2016, it came back.

According to John Alban, founder of Hospice du Rhône and Alban Vineyards, there are so many grapes and so much diversity but “the 22 varieties are what bring everyone together, what links everyone together. As I travel around and meet winemakers, we may have very little in common and yet we have so much in common.”

There are so many opportunities for diversity and each winemaker goes in their own direction. It is about the passion, exploring different climates and different ways.”

After Alban’s welcome, it was time to start tasting. The seminars covered topics from exploring the terroirs of Châteauneuf du Pape and the white wines of the Costières de Nîmes in Southern Rhone to the state of Rhône varieties within the state of Washington and a road trip through the alluring varieties of syrah and grenache hailing from Paso Robles to Santa Barbara.

 

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Tagged Hospice du Rhone, Napa Valley Register, Paso Robles, rhone varietals, Wine, wine festival, wine seminar, wine tasting

California Wine Trips You Should Go On This Summer (That Aren’t Napa)

Written by Allison Levine on April 27, 2016
Lifestyle Wine

If you live in Cali and like wine, sure, you’re gonna go to Napa. But here’s the thing: Napa makes up only one percent of the grapes grown in California — our state actually has over 137 AVAs (American Viticultural Areas) that stretch as far north as Mendocino County and as far south as Riverside County, so if you’re looking to go wine tasting/stumbling for the weekend, your choices are actually (almost) endless. Some are better than others, though — and here are eight regions worth a visit:

Wine Country

Healdsburg, Sonoma
Sebastopol, Sonoma
Monterey, California
Paso Robles
Pismo Beach
Santa Barbara Wine Country
Downtown Santa Barbara
Malibu

Read about each region and the complete story at Thrillist.

Tagged California, Downtown Santa Barbara, Healdsburg, Malibu, Monterey, Paso Robles, Pismo Beach, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Wine Country, Sebastopol, Thrillist, Travel, Wine, Wine regions, wine tasting, wine travel

Another tasting of a lifetime at Pebble Beach Food and Wine

Written by Allison Levine on April 20, 2016
Lifestyle Wine

Last year at Pebble Beach Food and Wine, I attended a seminar featuring a vertical tasting of the first growth of Royal Tokaji. This was by far the “tasting of a lifetime” and one that could never be repeated.

However, the great thing about wine is that there are many “tastings of a lifetime,” those times when the lineup of wines is like no other, cannot be duplicated and only in your wildest imagination would you have thought about it. And that is what happened at the ninth annual Pebble Beach Food and Wine event.

Tete du Cuvee Rose - Exploring Rose

The weekend started with a tasting of Tete du Cuvee Rose Champagne. Exploring this more robust style of Champagne, I thought life was really good at this point as I sat with glasses of pink bubbles in front of me from the following producers: Read More +

Tagged Big Bottle Bubbles, Christie Dufault, Emily Wines, Gillian Balance, iconic wines, June Rodil, Magnum Champagne, Master Sommeliers, Napa Valley Register, Pebble Beach Food and Wine, tasting of a lifetime, Tete du Cuvee Rose Champagne, Wine, wine treasures
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