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Harvest Events
Visiting the wine country during harvest is a great way to see the action in the vineyards, activity in the winery and lots of tasting in the tasting rooms.
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Cheese Pairing
Cheese and wine can be a wonderful experience bringing out the best of both foods. However there are times when the wrong cheese can make that $45 bottle of Cab taste flat and dull. Here are some tips to help you make the right choices...
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Corkscrewed: The Wrath of Grapes
This reality televison series follows American Idol producers Nigel and Ken as they negotiate with local farmers and winemakers, cursed the wild boars and vineyard pests and are welcomed into the wine community- while Nigel gets locked in the Hoosgow during the Paso Robles Pioneer parade. See the video...
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Uncorking Another Sideways
Bottle Shock the movie is an entertaining, albeit not completely factual look at the events leading up to the famous 1976 “Judgment in Paris”, where California wines beat out their French counterparts in a blind tasting putting California wines firmly on the wine map. It is a good romp in the vineyard and shows us what the Napa of old was like and how things have changed since.
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Ask the Farmer - Toasting!
Salud (Spanish), Prost (Dutch), Sante (French), Slainte (Irish), Salute (Italian), Vashe zdorovie (Russian), Lechyd da (Welsh) are all toasts that mean the same as our “To Good Health” These are ancient toasts that seemed to have been generated by relating wine to good health. Aside from the... evidence that wine is good for you, the reasons behind these toasts were...
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