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A Place for Audiophiles and Oenophiles in Downtown Paso Robles

A Place for Audiophiles and Oenophiles in Downtown Paso Robles

If you happen to be an audiophile and an oenophile or just really like wine and good music then you will really like Bushong Vintage Company in downtown Paso Robles. We were greeted by Jason Bushong and heard a short history of what led him to a tasting room with a wall full of record albums, a pinball machine and fabulous wines.  We started off with a couple of delicious whites, a Sauvignon Blanc…

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Santa Lucia Highlands - Hahn Estates Vineyard

Santa Lucia Highlands – Hahn Estates Vineyard

Laura’s brother was visiting the Bay Area from the east coast and we decided to meet up along with her sister from Walnut Creek in the Santa Lucia Highlands to taste some fabulous Pinot Noirs.   San Francisco, Walnut Creek and Atascadero are all about equidistant from the hills in Monterey County.

Most of the wineries along River Road are only open on the weekends so our choices were limited but…

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Brander Winery Santa Ynez Valley

Brander Winery Santa Ynez Valley

When your friend asks if you would like to join him and his wife to pick up a wine club shipment in Los Olivos, you say “yes”!!   Los Olivos is located about 75 miles away from our home which is a farther distance than we are used to driving but it’s a beautiful drive nonetheless.

Our friends were picking up their wine club shipment from Brander Wineryin the Santa Ynez Valley.   The winery is…

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Afternoon with Alder Yarrow and The Essence of Wine

Afternoon with Alder Yarrow and The Essence of Wine

Thanks to Jean Pedigo of Laughing Dog Cellars I had the privilege of spending a beautiful Saturday afternoon in Templeton and Paso Robles with wine blogger and author Alder Yarrow.    Alder was in town for a book signing of his stunning book “The Essence of Wine“.  We started at 15c Wine Shopin Templeton where we shared a delicious cheese and wine plate and a little bottle of Italian bubbly.  We…

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Star in the OC

Star in the OC

Most of our wine tasting experiences over the years are done in “wine country” places. This weekend we were recommended by our friend Aussie to stop by the Orange Coast Winery if we were ever in the Costa Mesa area. What a coincidence that my sister lives in Costa Mesa and we happen to be visiting this weekend.

The winery is in an unassuming business area and the parking lot in the back accessed…

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Siduri Winery a destination in Santa Rosa

Siduri Winery a destination in Santa Rosa

Even though we love our local wineries here in the Paso Robles area, one of our favorite places to visit are the wineries around the Santa Rosa area. Granted we are not as familiar since it is a 5 hour drive north of us. But luck would have it that we had some time after business for a little wine tasting pleasure.  Laura’s cousin Kristn, who is a sommelier from Rochester NY, recommended that we…

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Hidden Gem in Paso Robles

Hidden Gem in Paso Robles

Weekends in January are a great time to go wine tasting with your girlfriends  since it’s likely that your husbands have their interests elsewhere…namely in front of a TV watching football.   Two of my friends took advantage of this and ventured out once again to taste the amazing wines of Paso Robles.   We like to visit our favorite wineries but we also try to visit ones that we haven’t been to…

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Fall in the Finger Lakes

Fall in the Finger Lakes

Fall is usually my favorite time of year but this year it was particularly wonderful.  We made a trip to Pennsylvania and New York with a few friends and had a fabulous time!  The weather was actually a lot more typical for what we are used to in California….in the 70’s during the day and in the 50’s in the evenings.  We had expected a few days of rain but only had one.  The leaves weren’t quite…

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Napa and Sonoma...Venturing Beyond Paso Robles

Napa and Sonoma…Venturing Beyond Paso Robles

We rarely venture out beyond Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo and feel perfectly content doing so considering the quality of wines so close to home.  (We do hope to make it to Europe some day though)

A few weeks ago we ventured out all the way up to Napa and Sonoma to meet up with my brother and his wife and daughters who were visiting from Pennsylvania.  We were a bit apprehensive about visiting…

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Chillin' at Morovino Winery

Chillin’ at Morovino Winery

As we were driving away from Wolff Winery in San Luis Obispo on a hot Sunday afternoon, we discussed our next stop and decided on Morovino Winery in Avila Beach with the hopes of finding a cooler climate.  Knowing that Avila Beach has been a bit warm lately I called ahead to make sure they were open and to ask a most important question….did they have their air conditioning going?  We got the…

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Drinking with Wolves

The wineries of San Luis Obispo were sounding awfully enticing while we were enduring triple digit temperatures in the northern parts of San Luis Obispo County.  We checked out the SLO Wine website to see if any of the wineries were having any fun events on Sunday.  We discovered that Wolff Vineyards Winerywas having an event they called “Meet the Wolves”…we’re not talking about meeting the Wolff…

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Talley Vineyards

It’s good to be reminded of our diverse wine region in San Luis Obispo County. On a beautiful SLO County Sunday (7/12/15), we visited Talley Vineyardsmainly to get a change of pace and spend some time with friends from San Luis Obispo. We know that Talley puts on good Sunday afternoon events with wine, food and music.  The winery is perched above some beautiful agricultural landscape which makes…

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Cass Winery Wine Class - Intro to Wine

Cass Winery Wine Class – Intro to Wine

One of the fun privileges of living in wine country and belonging to a wine club such as Cass Winery is the availability to attend classes and workshops to learn more about wine beyond enjoyment of tasting.

  Laura and I attended a wine class at Cass Winery that was taught by Katie Bay, a Certified Specialist of Wine and Level 1 Sommelier.  It was held inside the winery at a huge table…

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Into the Woods

Living in San Luis Obispo County means you can’t drive far without seeing a vineyard either right by the road or in the distance.  But over Memorial Day Weekend we drove up to the Santa Cruz mountains where all you could see were Redwood trees and windy roads.  The drive from Atascadero to the Santa Cruz mountains brought us past the vineyards, fields of strawberries, apple orchards and plenty of…

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Paso Robles Wine Fest -- Day Two

Paso Robles Wine Fest — Day Two

It’s difficult to visit all of the wineries you want to over a festival weekend!  Thankfully we live close enough to the wineries that we don’t have to try to squeeze them all in.

We started off day two of Wine Festival weekend at Olivas de Oro Olive Oil Companyin Creston.  We brought a bottle of wine to enjoy with our picnic food and some of the delicious fare that Marti Menacho shares in the…

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