This past Wednesday evening, Halter Ranch Winery held an industry party at their property on the west side of Paso Robles. It was cool because it was the first time we’ve seen their newly finished wine caves, which were awesome by the way. … [Read more...]
What Alcohol Goes Well With a Cold?
I posed this question on our Hoot n Annie Facebook page and proceeded to get 112 comments (this included my comments in response to everyone) on what alcohol concoction would cure the common cold. I must say, I was impressed with the range of cocktails that people came up with … [Read more...]
Road Trip: Monterey, California
A couple of weeks back I had some work to take care of in the Monterey area so Annie and I decided to make it our first road trip with Sammy to test him (but mostly test us) on how he would do on a 2 hour and 15 minute drive as well as two nights away from home in a hotel. It was … [Read more...]
Paso Robles Wine Business and WiVi
I saw this article this morning titled “Central Coast Wine Business is Strong and Growing” and it made me smile…I’m glad business is strong. Although, depending on who you speak with, that opinion may differ. It was also a reminder that WiVi (Wine & Viticulture) Central … [Read more...]
Customer Service Will Be the Death of Me
Note: I am not slamming this business mentioned in this post, just using it as a recent example. We recently went up to Monterey because I had some work to take care of and we decided to go back to the Cannery Row Brewing Company. In December of 2011 we had gone to Monterey … [Read more...]
Our Three Favorite Wines from January
Annie and I were chatting recently about how we should start doing a blog post at the beginning of each month about our favorite wines from the previous month. I will list my top 3 and Annie will list hers, the point of this exercise is to partially keep better tabs on the wines … [Read more...]
Help Me ShareSLO
This blog post is kind of a two part thing, one part is about this unique and interesting contest going on in San Luis Obispo County (where Annie and I live) and the other part is a bit of selfishness on my part. I will cover the contest part first. The contest is called … [Read more...]
News from Paso Robles: WOPN, Firestone Walker Brewery, and More
As you’ve seen in the past month or so we have started doing some blog posts on news, events, and updates from Paso Robles. There is always so much going on, especially now as we head closer to Spring. Below you will find some links to things that were either forwarded to us or … [Read more...]
Social Media and the Wine Business
As a lover of both wine and social media it only seemed logical to start trying to bring those two things together some years ago. I initially did this by starting a wine and lifestyle blog with my wife and eventually turned that into also consulting wineries (and other … [Read more...]
Paso Robles Wine: Lone Madrone
Heard of it? Been there? The winemaker and co-owner of Lone Madrone, Neil Collins, is also the Executive Winemaker and Vineyard Manager at Tablas Creek here in Paso Robles. We’ve talked about Tablas Creek before on the blog but we haven’t really mentioned Lone Madrone much, if at … [Read more...]
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