Imagine strolling through a beautiful garden area with a glass of wine in your hand on a nice fall evening at a National Historic Landmark. Or sitting on a shaded porch having a meal at one of USA Today’s Best New Restaurants of 2020. It's all part of five fun things to do this fall in Charleston, S.C. Charleston is known for its historic architecture, southern cuisine, … [Read more...]
Start Your Memorial Day Weekend With This Wine Tasting Event In The San Fernando Valley
Buvette Restaurant Hosting Flights From Fernweh Wine Co. By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Nightlife Blogger While Memorial Day Weekend means beer and BBQs to a lot of people, wine lovers in Los Angeles can have their moment, too. On Tuesday of Memorial Day Weekend (May 25), Buvette restaurant in the San Fernando Valley is holding a wine tasting, hosted by … [Read more...]
Paso Robles Wine Festival 2021 Weekend Events: Winery Tastings & Winemaker Dinners
Dates, Details & Events In Central California's Wine Country The corks will be popping and the glasses touching in rounds of "cheers" for the 2021 Paso Robles Wine Festival. The four-day event in Central California is scheduled for Thursday thru Sunday, May 20-23. This year's event features winemaker dinners at area restaurants and at the wineries … [Read more...]
These Michigan Wineries Are Welcoming Travelers For Wine Tasting
Socially-Distanced Wine Travel Destinations In The Wolverine State When making travel plans to go wine tasting, it's pretty unlikely you will say "hey, let's go to Michigan!" But these wineries in the state's southwestern wine country near Lake Michigan are ready to welcome travelers to try their wines, food and even craft beers and local spirits. Below what you … [Read more...]
How To Enjoy A Wine-Tasting Getaway In Style
Surely one of the most luxurious and pulse-slowing trips on the travel roster, the wine-tasting getaway is popular among young professionals and older travelers alike. Sitting on a balcony overlooking rolling vineyards, swilling small glasses of exquisite wines in your hands, this is a trip that cries out for style, glamor, and a taste of the luxurious. In order to pack … [Read more...]
Wine Tasting In Paso Robles Without Having To Drive To The Wineries
Downtown Tasting Rooms Provide A Good Wine Experience By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Wine Travel Blogger There are many wineries scattered around the golden hillsides of Paso Robles in the midsection of the Golden State. But you don't have to get in your car – or draw straws to determine your designated driver – to do wine tasting in this Central California town … [Read more...]
Where To Go Wine Tasting Along PCH Highway 1 Near Hearst Castle
Hearst Ranch Winery & Harmony Cellars Tasting Rooms Reviews On Pacific Coast Highway By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger There's enough wine in this area to flood Hearst Castle, but you don't have to go to Paso Robles to enjoy it. There are wine tasting rooms along Highway 1 near the famous Central California landmark, each in unique locations … [Read more...]
Super Bowl 50 Has A Wine Country At Super Bowl City
Taste Of Sonoma Lounge Offers Wine Tastings From Wineries You can't – or more appropriately shouldn't – have a Super Bowl in San Francisco without highlighting the area's wine regions and wineries. With Sonoma County being a destination sponsor of the game, it has a set up a wine tasting area as part of Super Bowl City in downtown San Francisco. More than 50 wineries … [Read more...]
Oakland Urban Wine Trail Is Wine Tasting In A City
Wine Lovers Have A Napa & Sonoma Bay Area Alternative When you think of wine tasting in the Bay Area, Napa Valley and Sonoma come immediately to mind. You most certainly don't think about Oakland. But the city across the bay has wineries, 11 of them, in fact. And you can visit them as part of the Oakland Urban Wine Trail, a self-guided tour downtown. Oakland's urban … [Read more...]
San Diego Wine & Food Festival 2016 Tickets Now On Sale
12th Annual Event Features Pairings & Popular Tastings • November 15-22 The multi-day San Diego WIne & Food Festival, which reaches a peak with a Grand Tasting on Saturday afternoon, is one of the area's top events and one of the best wine and food events in all of California. So you had better get your tickets now, for they are on sale. The price for the … [Read more...]
A Complete Guide To The Carmel Wine Walk Passport Tasting Rooms
Visiting Monterey County's Wineries Without Leaving Town Wine tasting rooms have become a big trend for wineries and towns in California. In quaint Carmel, there are 15 places people can go wine tasting. To put some order to this, the city of Carmel By-The-Sea has created the Wine Walk Passport. It involves nine tasting rooms for $65. With most tasting rooms … [Read more...]
Holman Ranch Carmel Valley Wine Tasting Room Good Review
Family-Run Winery Specializes In Pinot Noir Wines There are dozens of wine tasting rooms in Carmel Village – about a 20-minute drive from even more tasting rooms in the town of Carmel-By-The-Sea – so how do you choose which ones to visit? Well here's one that PubClub.com recommends. It's the tasting room for a small, local and family-run winery called Holman Ranch. In fact, … [Read more...]
Wine Tasting In The South Bay Goes From Bottle Inn To Baleen To FishBar
A Tasting By The Beach, Half-Priced Wines By The Harbor And Reverse Happy Hour I went on a wine tasting tour recently in California. It was not in Napa Valley, Sonoma, Paso Robles, Santa Ynez Valley or even Monterey or Mendocino County. Instead, it was a tour of my own design and right here where I live, in the South Bay Beach Cities of Los Angeles. Inspired by a Tweet … [Read more...]
James King Shows Wine The Fun Way at LA Travel & Adventure Show
Learning How To Drink Wine Before Enjoying A Wine Tasting Is wine complicated? Intimidating to order in a restaurant? It can be, but doesn't have to be, says wine consultant James King. In fact, he's got a simple solution. "The only way to learn about wine is to drink wine," he said. "So the more you drink, the more you learn." Now that sounds like instructions the … [Read more...]
The Anatomy of Wine Tasting Events
In The Beginning They Are Sophisticated But In The End It's Really About The Party I love wine tastings and wine festivals. I enjoy them much more than I actually enjoy the wines. That's because they are fun events, and I find it fascinating to watch the demeanor and the mood of the people change as the event progresses. Most people arrive savvy and sophisticated and … [Read more...]
New Orleans Wine & Food Experience Has Many Events
The 20th Annual Event is May 22-26 And Includes A Wine Tasting Stroll Down Royal Street When one normally thinks of New Orleans – and the French Quarter in particular – they think of Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras and JazzFest. And for good reason; those are all good reasons to go to and play in the Big Easy. But the city also has other more refined places and events, and … [Read more...]