Here we have ten of Ventura County’s best wines from five of its best wineries. Grapes have been planted here off and on for hundreds of years by everyone from Chumaash natives to missionaries and all the way through the 1990’s. At that point, the dreaded glassy-winged sharpshooter infested the …
In the upper Ojai valley in Ventura County, just around sunset, the Topa Topa mountain range suddenly bursts to life with pinkish hues that light the ground, the sky, the very air. Locals call it “the pink moment”and it adds to Ojai’s reputation for other-worldly contemplation and a hippy-like groove. …
Austria’s wine producing regions have not enjoyed the same level of U.S. acceptance as their counterparts in France or even South America. But the wines from the sprawling vineyards and forests of the Burgenland, or borderland, deserve wider attention. Austria’s own red grapes—Zweigelt, St. Laurent, and the more-well-known-though-just-as-ethereal Blaufrankisch—thrive here …