Chris is a great storyteller. He shared a story with us about a lady who called him and said her parents had a vineyard in Hemet that needed harvesting. He loaded the truck with bins, buckets and miscellaneous tools and when he arrived at the property discovered "the vineyard" consisted of one vine.
When they decided to locate the winery on De Portola Road, more than a few eyebrows were raised. There were only two other wineries on the road at the time: Keyways and Filsinger. Keyways was open only occasionally; Filsinger was open on weekends only. Several owners of wineries on Rancho California Road told them they were making a big mistake. They honestly wondered if they were making a mistake themselves.
"If you'd told me a year ago that I'd be in Southern California as a winery owner I would have told you you were crazy!" Filsinger Winery was one of the...
I had never even heard of a Calçotada until a few weeks ago. Chef Frank Miller talked with me in detail about the famed Spanish festivals, where calçot onions a...
Gray skies, temperatures on the chilly side and a few drops of rain couldn't deter hundreds of wine lovers from enjoying the World of Wine barrel tasting event ...
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Steve and Valerie Andrews from Oak Mountain & Temecula Creek. They were some of the first winery folk we met way before we...
WINEormous began as a concept. It would be a blog with stories focusing on wineries and the people who make them run - owners, winemakers, pourers, folks on the bottling line, all of them.
It's been a hell of a year. Until early May, I was selling real estate, or at least attempting to. In March, my then fiancée, now bride, Laura and I spent the w...
It had been more than a few months since I last visited Ponte Winery. I stopped by last week for a tasting, lunch and a visit with Winemaker Robert Cartwright. ...
I think it bears noting that when friends shared a bottle of Rombauer's '05 Zin with me a few years ago, it reawakened my passion for wine. It's still one of my favorites. While we waited for K.R. Rombauer, we tasted superb Chardonnay and Zinfandel and got acquainted with Moose.
