Whitcraft Winery – Tasting with Drake – Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail # 3
This is a post in my Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail Series. See the summary article here for general Wine Trail info or to read about the 27 other wineries! Today I visited Whitcraft Winery in the Midtown area of Santa Barbara. I was lucky to show up and have Drake, the owner and winemaker,…
Au Bon Climat – My First Wine Tasting in Santa Barbara – Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail #11
This is a post in my Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail Series. See the summary article here for general Wine Trail info or to read about the 27 other wineries! Au Bon Climat was my first stop along the Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail. I had just purchased my membership card and had to pick…
The Santa Barbara Urban Wine Trail – Visiting all 28 Tasting Rooms!
I am a self proclaimed wine lover who has tasted at wineries in Southern Oregon, Northern California (Napa, Sonoma, Livermore and Monterey), as well as abroad (Argentina, France, Italy and Portugal). But I have never been wine tasting in Santa Barbara, where I went to college and now currently reside once again. Thus, I have…
Food, Wine and Art From Umbria and Tuscany, Italy
After regrouping in Rome for a couple days after our trip south to Pompeii, we rented a car to road trip through central Italy for the final week of our travels. We were told by our hosts that doing a loop through the region of Umbria, a few hours North-East of Rome, then continuing North-West…
Drinking Some Sweet Wines in Portugal – Porto and Douro Valley
Porto was one of the places I was most excited to visit when planning our trip and I’m happy to report it lived up to my expectations! It ended up as one of my favorite places we visited and a region I would love to return to soon. The food and wine tasting in Porto…
Wine-ding Our Way Through France – Photos from Fontainebleau, Loire Valley, Bordeaux, Carcassonne, Provence and Fréjus
“A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.” – Ernest Hemingway Our road trip through France from Reims in the north east of France, down to Bordeaux on the Atlantic coast then further south to the French Riviera was filled with beautiful sites, great meals, fun new friends, silly…
Our Visit to the Champagne Region of France – Reims and Verdun
After leaving Paris via our rented car and surviving the parking garage fiasco (read this post to catch up on that Experience) we headed to France’s Champagne wine region and the city of Reims. I really wanted to explore some of the famous wine regions of France and Alena loves champagne so this area seemed…
Exploring Paris by Foot and by Food
I write this post while sitting in a wine bar in Bordeaux, France. Two amazing glasses of Medoc red wine in front of me waiting to be tasted, and as these posts take a while to put together I’m sure a few other wines will pass over my table as well. Alena and I have…