Cucamonga was the first true home to the earliest vineyards planted by the Spanish missionaries moving northward from Mexico into California. Long before Napa, Sonoma, the Central Coast and other well-known and respected appellations, Cucamonga vineyards were home to...
The whole state of California is about 15 days on average, late harvesting wine grapes. We’d normally have harvested on Labor Day Weekend, but now are not picking the Petite Syrah until September 25th and the Zinfandel will likely be...
One of the instructors from the Mira Costa College Wine Technology Program, a well respected grape and wine expert from this area, came to visit this morning. Pete Anderson and another friend who makes wine toured the vineyard and we had...
Apparently they didn’t do any barbequing back in the 1960’s. Baked Chicken Californian was pretty good with the wine in it and done in the oven with bacon and onion on top, and the family said they’d like that again. The classic French Onion Soup...
I was part way into making the recipe for Pacific Crab Salad from the California Winemakers book circa 1963 for last night’s dinner, when 2 things occurred to me. One was they didn’t have the selection in the grocery stores of pre-made ingredients back...
