Cali Coast Wine Country
If you love Champagne, you know there are many different kinds of sparkling wine. A Pétillant Naturel is a sparkling wine made in the Méthode Ancestrale, as opposed to the Méthode Champenoise. Pét-Nats are fun and popular, because they are easier and cheaper to make than traditional sparkling wines made in the Champagne method. Winemakers …
Winemaker Mike Sinor is the SLO Coast Champagne Renegade. Instead of focusing on traditional-method sparklers, he uses traditional and new/interesting varieties and then uses the older, pared-down and simple, méthode ancestral instead. Each year at Sinor-Lavallee, you can find something different and fun as Sinor experiments with all-natural frizzante bubbles. Sinor’s Ancestral Pét-Nat Sparkling Pinot …
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 …
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 …
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 …
San Luis Obispo County includes Paso Robles & the SLO Coast, and now has more than 80 Sparkling Wine producers.
