Ten years ago yesterday, on October 7, 2007, Cantara Cellars opened their doors to their Camarillo tasting room and winery.
Ten years later, yesterday, they celebrated this accomplishment with a dinner party with 75 of their friends, family, and wine club members sitting at one long table decorated with fall colors and pumpkins with succulents which were sold for $10 to raise for Meadowlarks. Tasting room manager and my writing partner Sue Hill and her sweetie John Walsh were there of course — and so was I. Continue reading →
According to Wikipedia, the straw basket bottle that many people associate with cheap Italian wine, and even more specifically, Chianti, is called a fiasco — or, if you want many of them, fiaschi: Continue reading →
Hey there! Yes that’s me sporting a chocolate mustache from Dellorees’s Confections in Placerville CA! We’re on a post International Food Bloggers Conference with a stop at the Farm and Table for some special bites (pictured) paired with wines from two El Dorado County wineries, Holly’s Hill and Lava Cap.
And now I am writing to you from a beautiful cottage at Lucinda’s Country Inn near Fair Play in the heart of El Dorado wine country.
I’m surrounded by the sweet lulling sounds of crickets, I can easily start a cozy fire in the gas fireplace when it cools off, I’m sipping on a Holly’s Hill red blend (pictured above), and soon I’m going to take a bath!
I’ve had an inspiring weekend at IFBC, and I’m looking forward to exploring El Dorado County more tomorrow before I drive home. But first here’s a few more fun people sporting chocolate mustaches!
Seems like California Wine Month this September sped by: somehow tomorrow is the final day of a month’s worth of festivities up and down the state! Continue reading →
This wine and foodie is very excited to be once again attending the International Food Bloggers Conference in Sacramento — America’s Farm to Fork Capital– which starts today, September 28 and continues through October 1, 2017. I’m bringing some great California wine for the end of California Wine Month– who wants to do dinner on Friday or Saturday?
Continuing our celebration of California Wine Month, Sue and I decided to compare and contrast two wines from Rock Wall Wine Company, both Petite Sirah: 2014 from Sonoma (SRP $35 on sale now for $28) and Napa (SRP $60). We tasted them as a TGIF and paired them with happy hour fare, and then later my husband grilled up a filet mignon with blue cheese for me. What a great way to end the work week! Continue reading →
