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California Wine Events & Wine Clubs
Joining a California Wine Club is a great way to enjoy premium wines at discount prices.
H.R. 5034 hearing is postponed over concerns about impacts
California wineries and wine-industry groups were up in arms at a proposed federal law that could make it difficult, if not impossible, for many wineries to ship their wines directly to consumers in several large markets—and give wholesalers even more power than they now wield. Many thanks to Family Winemakers of California, the California Wine Institute and all others who helped oppose this legislation.
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Santa Barbara Wine Clubs has 3 great wine clubs for you to choose from. We have a club for everyone, all clubs ship quarterly and range in price. We promise that you will love the selection of the Los Olivos Wine Merchant Café, an award winning restaurant and wine retailer. |
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Since 1992, The Gold Medal Wine Club has been offering only award-winning, small-production, boutique wines from family-owned wineries. Five different wine clubs and a wine store with 90+ rated wines at discounts up to 40%. |
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Sculpterra Winery has combined wine and art with a distinctive line-up of wines, a beautiful wine country setting and a magnificent sculpture garden to create a truly unique wine country experience in Paso Robles, California. Take advantage of wine club discounts up to 50% and enjoy our exclusive wine club pick up parties. |
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Attending California wine events can be a wonderful way to experience a wide variety of wines. List your California wine event for free. Most of California's 2,000 wineries are owned by families, adding to the unique character that makes a trip to California wine country so memorable. A trip to California wine country is also an education into what is new and fresh in seasonal cooking. Local restaurants focus on pairing regional wines with natural, farm-grown ingredients, often sourced from community farmers' markets.
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Taste of Beverly Hills is presented by Food & Wine magazine, a four-day culinary and wine event celebrating all things epicurean in Beverly Hills featuring top chefs and vintners from California and throughout the country, Tickets are $125 pp/day, $500 pp/weekend pass, 877.434.8624, For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit Taste of Beverly Hills. |
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Experience a wine and food weekend in Lodi Wine Country with the ever popular Taste of Lodi event at Wine & Roses Hotel, Restaurant & Spa on Sunday, September 26, and the newest addition of the all day Wine Camp on Saturday, September 25 - a total immersion of the winemaking process from vineyard to bottle to wine glass. Wine aficionados will have the opportunity to taste the wines of Lodi from over 40 wineries and culinary specialties from local favorites at the Taste of Lodi event, plus try the hands-on ‘vintners-in-the making’ experience, all in the midst of harvest, at the Wine Camp. For additional details or to purchase tickets visit The Taste of Lodi or call (800) 798-1810. |
Savor the Central Coast
September 30 - October 3
Santa Margarita Ranch
Sponsored By:
Sunset Magazine &
San Luis Obispo County
Visitors & Conference Bureau
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Sunset Magazine, the premier publication of Living in the West, has partnered with the San Luis Obispo County Visitors & Conference Bureau to launch “Savor the Central Coast”. Highlights of the four-day event include: Sunset’s Western Wine Awards Gala; SAVOR the Mission Plaza; Concert and Fireworks Finale with Chris Isaak; Central Coast Pavilion and Grand Tasting; Farmer’s Market to Meal; Sunset Kitchen Garden; A Moveable Feast: Best-of-the-Best Food Carts, and Chef and Winemaker Central; and The Marketplace, showcasing talented chefs and a variety of more than 100 wineries from the Central Coast of California arranged by sub-region, including representatives from Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
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It’s Calaveras Grape Stomp time!! More than 100 teams throughout the State and beyond compete each year to vie for the prestigious first, second and third place awards. Stomp competitions begin at 9:30 a.m. and, to the delight of a roaring audience, take place every ½ hour. The team, comprised of one stomper and one swabber (who collects the juice), have three minutes to extract as much juice from 25 pounds of wine grapes as possible. The winner of each “heat” goes to the Championship Semi-finals, during which time the poundage ups to 35 pounds.
A bountiful silent auction takes place throughout the day, followed by a live auction featuring premium wine experience packages at Calaveras’ finest wineries including gourmet meals with winemakers and horse back tours of the vineyards. Proceeds go back into the community in the form of student scholarships and donations to organizations in need. There is no charge to attend the Calaveras Grape Stomp. Team registration ($50) is available starting Aug. 1 by visiting online at CalaverasGrapestomp.com or calling (209) 754-0127. |
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The 20th Annual Celebration of Harvest invites you to celebrate with all 110+ winery members of the Santa Barbara County Vintners' Association, Saturday, October 9th, 1:00p-4:00p. Leisurely stroll the beautiful, historic grounds of Rancho Sisquoc while tasting fine wine and inspired local cuisine prepared by dozens of the area's finest restaurants and food purveyors. Your tasting experience is enhanced by the sounds of Sean Wiggins & her One Lone Goat and, the Laurel Street Jazz Band. All for $65/pp or, visit 12 participating wineries from Friday thru Monday with a Vintner's Visa ticket @ $35/pp or, do both the Festival & the Visa as a "Combo" @ $90/pp (save $10/pp). |
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Indulge your inner gourmand with The Gourmet Experience! The Gourmet Experience is a food, luxury and lifestyle event showcasing the best in gourmet products and services. From professional cookware to epicurean travel tours to home entertaining, The Gourmet Experience is the ultimate lifestyle event for those with refined and sophisticated tastes. This one-of-a-kind gourmet experience also includes the "That's the Spirit" Beer & Wine Pavilion, where age appropriate gourmands will get to taste the finest wines from some of the nation's top wine producers. Visit the Gourmet Experience for more information. |
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The Robledo Family Winery celebrates harvest with the blessing of the grapes and olives. Enjoy live music, an Aztec dance performance, wine specials, delicious Authentic Mexican cuisine and a grape stomp competition (be sure to bring an extra change of clothes as this can become quite messy). Tickets $55 "La Familia" wine club and $65 for non-club. Contact Stephanie at (707) 939-6903 for tickets. |
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The Largest Wine and Food Festival in Southern California! Indulge you senses, please your palate, and tantalize your taste buds this November, at the 7th Annual San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival. Join over 9,000 fellow wine and food enthusiasts, along with 170 winemakers, 70 of San Diego’s top chefs, gourmet food producers, authors, media personalities and celebrity chefs during the week-long celebration of all things gourmet. Held November 17-21, 2010, the five-day festival will feature 15 wine tasting and cooking classes, a WineRave, a Reserve & New Release Tasting, Wine Dinners, an AIWF Big Bottle Auction & Celebrity Chef Luncheon, Tommy Bahama Rum VIP Party and the star-studded Grand Tasting Event. Don’t miss the action-packed week of festivities sure to please your inner foodie and wine lover!
For more information on the San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival, please call 619-342-7337 or visit the Festival website. |
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All dinner wines are classified under six specific classes:
Aperitif (or better known as "appetizer wines"): include dry sherry, Madeira, Vermouth, and other flavored wines, made to be consumed before eating a meal.
Red dinner wines: These wines are usually dry and go extremely well with such main-course dishes as red meats, spaghetti, and highly-seasoned foods. They should be served at a cool room temperature to bring out their aroma. The most popular red dinner wines are claret, Burgundy, Chianti, and Cabernet Sauvignon. Pink dinner wines (also called "rose wines"), a special class of red wines, can be served with almost any dish, but are considered best with cold meats, pork, and curries.
White dinner wines: Usually either very dry or rather sweet, these wines should be served chilled, and go well with white meats, seafood, and fowl. They include Rhine wines, Chablis, sauterne, and wine made from different grape varieties such as Chardonnay and White Riesling.
Sparkling wines: Usually served at any meal with any course, these wines are most frequently served at banquets, formal dinners and weddings. The most common sparking wines are Champagne (white) and sparkling Burgundy (red).
Table wine: Table wine is not bubbly, although some have a very slight carbonation, the amount of which is not enough to disqualify them as table wines. According to U.S. standards of identity, table wines may have an alcohol content that is no higher than 14 percent. In Europe, light wine must be within 8.5 percent and 14 percent alcohol by volume. As such, unless a wine has more than 14 percent alcohol, or it has bubbles, it is a table wine or a light wine.
Dessert wines: Ranging from medium-sweet to sweet, these wines are classified under dessert wines only because they are sometimes served with desserts. Among these are port wine, sweet sherry, Tokay, and muscatel.
Cooking wines: Typically containing a significant quantity of salt, cooking wine is wine of such poor quality that it is unpalatable and intended for use only in cooking.
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