Throughout the year, the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum offers adult programs to encourage understanding and appreciation of the many facets of our natural world. Lectures and films, classes, field trips, panel discussions, and workshops provide opportunities to experience new ideas, develop new skills, meet active adults with similar interests, and learn from experts. And three events coming up are all related to wine!
On Sunday March 20, 100 guests will celebrate spring and learn about women in wine at the A Symposium Hosted by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History from 1:00–5:00 PM in the Fleischmann Auditorium from six significant women winemakers whose stellar wines play a significant role in the Central Coast: Continue reading →
In honor of Women’s History Month, this March Que Syrah Sue and I visited THE local Ventura County winemaker who is also a WOMAN: Brittany Jean Rice -Claypool of Millesime Cellars located at 425 Constitution Ave, Ste H Camarillo, California (805) 896-4049.
Palate over chemistry, says Brittany
Brittany comes from quite a wine making heritage: her great grandfather picked grapes at Inglenook, and her family started Sunstone in Santa Barbara. When she was 12, they planted their first merlot grapes at Sunstone; by the time she was 21, she was making their wine.
Now at 38, Brittany has her own winery where she is producing 1000 or so cases of red, white, and dessert wines a year.
Millesime Cellars library wine photo by wine maker Brittany Rice-Claypool
But Brittany didn’t take the direct route to becoming a winemaker–she came to wine making via art, food, and travel which leads to her claim that she prefers palate over chemistry.Continue reading →
March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and yesterday, Tuesday March 8 was International Women’s Day,
…so we thought March would be an appropriate time to take notice of not only some of the women wine makers we admire but also a few wine bloggers as well.
Starting with Kimberly Smith, wine maker at La Montagne, who says,
“May each sip bring your joy!”
Held in select cities around the world including London, NYC (today Feb. 29), Los Angeles (Weds. March 2), Miami, Chicago, and in Israel, the 10th Annual Kosher Food & Wine Experience #KFWE offers the largest selection of kosher wine and spirits Continue reading →
If you love wine, chances are you’ve bought a bottle for a special occasion, or bought a bottle to share with someone, or to mark an event, or maybe it’s just so beautiful that you save and save it and have a hard time opening it because it’s too “special”?
February has been all about Santa Barbara County Wine Love!
As usual, on Tuesdays from 6-7pm PST I’ve been participating in Wine Studio, and this month, the theme was Santa Barbara Love and wow, did we feel it! And we’ll feel it even more Continue reading →
Today’s quite the double whammy– there’s a full moon, the last full moon of winter, and it’s MARGARITA DAY! And that winning combination just might help you see that obscure figure we know and love “The Man In The Moon.” There’s even a song from the 20s that I grew up singing called “Me and the Man and the Moon” that includes these memorable lyrics:
“Just before I’m counting sheep
Through my window he comes to peep
And with each other we’re sympathizing”
I know I usually write mostly about wine, but I do love margaritas, especially ones made with fresh squeezed citrus, top shelf tequila, and an orange liqueur like Grand Marnier.
…so we thought March would be an appropriate time to take notice of not only some of the women wine makers we admire but also a few wine bloggers as well.
wine predator.............. gwendolyn alley 