Well, our trip is coming to an end. This is our last day on the “Right Coast”. We will be heading back to the “Wrong Coast” tomorrow. Today was all about pleasure. We are just going out and tasting some wine. Of course, we are always looking for some Cab Franc! Rancho Sisquoc Tasting…
We are spending the day back in Paso. We were suppose to rack and blend our two barrels today, but things changed and we are doing that tomorrow. When talking to someone about Paso, the first question you probably will be asked is which side of Paso? Paso is divided East and West. (Divided by…
Today was a completely different type of day for us here on the Central Coast. We spent the early morning discussing our O2 license and distribtion. I can’t even describe how the laws vary from state to state. We found out today that in order to ship to our homestate of NJ the compliance law…
There it is ladies and gents. The first vintage of Dracaena Wines. 2013 Cabernet Franc. As you can see, we did some barrel sampling. It is amazing how there can be subtle differences between individual barrels. We have decided to rack on Sunday. This will get the wine off lees, aerate the wine, and we…
We have been enjoying our trip so far. However, we really haven’t purchased that much wine. We brought out 4 empty shippers plus we purchased a new product to ship another case home ( more on that in a later blog post) and most of that is sadly empty at the moment. The Santa Barbara…
Day 2 travels brought us south of SLO to the Buellton, Lompoc, Solvang area. This area is considered part of the Santa Barbara county wine area. We chose to come to this area today because Solvang has a festival every third Wednesday of the month. We thought we would see what the festival had to…
