Cali Coast Wine Country
The San Luis Obispo Coast Wine region (SLO Coast Wine) is one of California’s coolest wine growing regions. Their 30 wineries are an average of only 5 miles from the ocean! Coastal fog, wind, soil, and sun create wines refined by the Pacific’s influence. This makes for energetically acidic and complex wines, with a large …
There is a little known gem of a chapel in Shandon California, just outside of Paso Robles, high on a hill with a trail of grapevines leading up to it. It’s got an amazing view of the Paso Robles countryside, and is an enjoyable short but steep hike―about a half mile and 300 feet elevation. …
An Amazing Story One of Napa Valley’s first wineries, White Rock Vineyards, established in 1870 in the foothills of Stag’s Leap range, was later purchased and revived in 1977 by a French man and his local wife, Henri and Claire Vandendriessche, after instantly falling in love with the property. The young Vandendriessche family grew up …
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 …
As Chef Tim Veatch hunches carefully over a great, beautiful slab of chocolate torte layered with rhubarb mousse, slicing it into perfect rectangles for serving, he’s interrupted by a knock on the door. He looks up, then his voice bellows across the kitchen to greet farmer Bill Spencer with a huge smile. Spencer, the grandfatherly …
We have so many amazing sparkling wines right here on the central coast, there’s no need to look further afield for New Year’s Eve bubbles. With about 30 sparkling wine makers in Santa Barbara county and about 20 in San Luis Obispo county, this coastal region in California can really stand up to real Champagne. …
