Cali Coast Wine Country
Winemaker Mike Sinor is the SLO Wine Country Champagne Renegade. Instead of beginning with traditional-method sparklers, he started using traditional and new/interesting varieties, plus the older, pared-down and simple, méthode ancestral instead. He has also created Champagne-style bubbles…read below! Each year at Sinor-Lavallee, you can find something different and fun as Sinor experiments with all-natural …
Fesstivity sparkling wines are a collaborative effort for Parker siblings Eli Parker and Ashley Parker Snider. Their first release of Blanc de Blancs, Brut Rose and Blanc de Noirs have proven to be great expressions of their shared vision of fresh and exciting wines from the finest Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vineyards in the Santa …
Laetitia Vineyards & Winery in Arroyo Grande has a sparkling wine heritage going back to the early 80s, when it was produced at the same location by Maison Deutz, a Champagne maker in France. Since taking it over in 1997, Laetitia has been the Grand Dame of sparkling wine on the central coast, with 7 different sparkling bottlings …
At Roblar Winery just outside of Los Olivos, you can taste both the classic Sparkling Blanc de Blancs (Pinot Blanc) and Sparkling Rosé (Pinot Noir and Pinot Blanc), and buy them by the glass or bottle. These wines are sourced and made in Sonoma County. From Roblar: “Roblar extra dry sparkling wine is crafted from grapes …
Sea Smoke is renowned for their Pinot Noir… and I mean in a major cultish way. This winery has no tasting room, but sells out their beautiful, balanced Pinots to their list with each wine release. With that reputation for cool-climate Pinot Noir, we’re lucky they also make a sparkling wine, called Sea Spray. This …
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 …
We have so many amazing local champagnes and Sparkling Wines right here on the central coast, there’s no need to look further afield for New Year’s Eve bubbles. With about 60 sparkling wine makers in Santa Barbara county and about 70 in San Luis Obispo county, this coastal region in California can really stand up …
