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    Buttonwood Rose Syrah Sangria

    Bloody Rosé Sangria – Buttonwood Syrah Rosé

    April 18, 2019 by calicoastblog

    If you live near the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara’s wine country, then you’ve heard of Buttonwood Farm & Winery‘s peaches. As you drive up Alamo Pintado between the charming towns of Los Olivos and Solvang (where we’re known for both wine tasting and Danish kitsch) you can’t miss the sign on the side …

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    House Spring Maltagliati with Fava Beans at root 246 in Solvang

    House Maltagliati with Fava Beans, Smoked Guanciale & Garlic Soubise

    January 4, 2019 by calicoastblog

    Spring  | New roots. Spring brings them every year, along with some delicacies that can only be enjoyed during these warming days…like fresh fava beans. Spring is the time these legumes behave, and taste, more like fresh new peas than later in the year after they mature, when they firmly join the bean clan (mostly …

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    Festival Mozaic summer concert at Serra Chapel in Shandon, San Luis Obispo County

    Festival Mozaic Brings World Class Music to Unique Places in San Luis Obispo

    July 10, 2018 by calicoastblog

    It isn’t hard to spend ten perfect days in San Luis Obispo (SLO), with its year-round sun, warm Mediterranean marine climate, world-class wine region and thousands of acres of protected open space. But when Festival Mozaic comes to town, all of SLO County becomes the stage, with 50 of the top musicians gathering to make music …

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    Flying Goat Cellars – Sparkling Wine Goat Bubbles

    April 26, 2018 by calicoastblog

    One of the original sparkling wine makers in Santa Barbara County using the traditional method — méthode champenoise — to make bubbles in-house was Flying Goat Cellars. Norm Yost and Kate Griffith have been picking early, fermenting grapes, providing the proper environment for a second fermentation in the bottle and disgorging in the Lompoc wine ghetto since 2008. Flying Goat …

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    Blair Fox Sparkling Wine

    Blair Fox Sparkling Wine: Foxy Bubbles

    April 23, 2018 by calicoastblog

    This rosé of Grenache is crisp and fruity; just ask and they will pour you a taste! From Blair: “The 2014 Foxy Bubbles were disgorged, capped and labeled the last week of December 2016 of this year after resting in bins on their secondary fermentation lees for over twenty months. The lees add complexity and …

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    Bien Nacido Vineyard, Santa Barbara wine country

    Bien Nacido Vineyards

    April 17, 2018 by calicoastblog

    Bien Nacido Vineyards in Santa Maria Valley Bien Nacido Vineyards are some of the most well-known vineyards in the world. 12 different grape varieties grow there and are famous for their ability to make high-quality, award-winning wines. It’s also the most-named vineyard across all branded labels in the world. If you’ve never seen the vineyard, get a peek in …

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    Brewer-Clifton Chardonnay & Pinot Noir Artisan Wines in Santa Barbara Wine Country

    Cheese & Wine Pairing: a Primer on Matching Wine with Cheese

    March 28, 2018 by calicoastblog

    Pairing wine with cheese is not as easy as it seems! An easy guideline we’ve all used before is to match the wine and cheese regions, body-weight or flavor profile. Or to do the opposite of body and flavors (fatty cheese with crisp acid); either way seems to work. Keeping it local/regional also always makes sense …

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    Industrial Eats in Buellton California

    Carbonara Pizza (aka Breakfast Pizza) at Industrial Eats

    January 24, 2018 by calicoastblog

    Industrial Eats owner/Chef Jeff Olsson has been cooking from locally sourced, organic ingredients long before “farm-to-table” was born. In the late 80s, deep in Amish farming country in Pennsylvania, Tuscarora Organic Growers co-operative took root, supplying restaurants in the Washington D.C. area with locally grown, organic produce. This co-op helped keep small farms afloat by coordinating crop production …

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