Here are the events that we recommend for this weekend.  Click on the title of an event to visit that event’s official web site.

California

Chalone (near Big Sur)

Pinnacles Wine Festival: April 26, 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Inn at the Pinnacles; tickets are $60 per person.  This festival celebrates wines hailing from California’s Chalone appellation.  Uh, Cha-whah?  It […]

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Recently, we were watching an episode of In Wine Country that reported that an increasing number of new wineries have set up shop in Oakland, California – rather than in the more usual, but pricier, wine producing areas like Napa or Sonoma – in hopes of keeping costs (and prices) down.  These wineries typically source (i.e., purchase) their grapes from vineyards across California and then produce and bottle their wines inside the city […]

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Last Monday, we described our overnight pre-parenthood stay in The Harbor House Inn in Mendocino County.  We also mentioned that, if you did not have the spare cash on hand to spring for such a decadent weekend trip, there were other lodging options in the area.  One such option is to rent a house, which is precisely […]

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This month’s question:
What is the most underrated wine region (judging by wine value) anywhere in the world? 
We’ve talked a lot in the past couple weeks about the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA, which has fast become one of our favorite jewel-in-the-rough wine regions.  There are just so many wineries in the SCM crafting exquisite Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays, and at the level of quality that we’ve […]

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