Lifestyle
Over the past 20-30 years, women have made significant in-roads into winemaking. In California, it is not uncommon to find women as winemakers, assistant winemakers,...
Port, the famed fortified wine from Portugal’s Douro region, is most commonly enjoyed as a dessert wine. But it’s also great in cocktails—one of the...
I am a wine drink and not a beer drinker. But I really enjoyed drinking the Heretic Sunset Harvest Ale, a beer-wine hybrid with Petite...
Food and wine pairing is fun. Sometimes you know exactly what wine to pair with a dish and sometimes you take a gamble. Recently Lucia...
Strozzapreti is an antique type of pasta that is made across Italy. Known as the "priest strangler" (strozza means "to choke or strangle" and preti...
As a small business owner myself, I know the challenges in managing all aspects of a business. The wearing of many hats also means working...
Harvest 2021 is almost complete. And to celebrate, Fiddlehead Cellars in the Sta. Rita Hills hosted a private celebration at the Fiddlestix Vineyard. It was...
During 2020, many of our favorite activities and parties were on hold. That included one of my favorite parties of the year, the Jordan Winery...
Celebrating another harvest, Paso Robles hosted their Harvest Wine Weekend this past week. More than 100 weekend activities were planned, including winemaker dinners, ceremonial grape...
In California, we eat strawberries year round, and the fresh strawberries that I can get at the farmers market during the summer months are some...