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 …
Graveyard Vineyard makes a sparkling wine French Colombard and Chenin Blanc, from the central valley of California. This is an off-dry bubbly, meaning it's slightly sweet, making it perfect for pairing with desserts.
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 …
Local Santa Barbara Bubbles Updated June 2022 By now, eating and drinking local in Santa Barbara County is easy. With our plethora of local farmers and chefs who embrace local ingredients, along with the more than 200 wineries and over 21,349 acres planted to wine grapes, you can easily find locally grown food, wine and food …
In Santa Barbara County, the only place to taste a flight of sparkling wine every day is Riverbench Winery‘s tasting room in downtown Santa Barbara, or at the winery in Santa Maria Valley on Foxen Canyon Road. They make 8 different sparklers in the traditional Champagne method! Read about their sparkling wines in their own words: …
