George Yatchisin
About Me:
George Yatchisin writes about food, wine, and cocktails from Santa Barbara, where he lives with his amazing wife, dogs, chickens, and chinchillas.
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Wine and tomatoes? Do they work together?
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"It's the Run DMC of pinots."
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The winery that looks as pretty as its product tastes.
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"Twenty years ago if we did this tasting it would be about oak. Since then people backed off the oak...maybe because the barrels are $900 each now."
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Some winemakers will let you taste their unfinished wine ... it all feels very illicit!
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"We're not manipulating the wines much, but there's a great level of care. What's necessary is to preserve the quality of the fruit."
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I like to think of petite sirah as the bastard love child of cabernet sauvignon and zinfandel after a night they both imbibed too much of each other.
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A recent wine event offered a lesson in pairing pork with light quaffs.
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Some folks want you to think not just of Bobby Wine but wine itself when you think of baseball.
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A music producer is now rocking the reds in Paso Robles.
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"The wines of the Central Coast have always been drinkable, and then they got good, and now, we have entered into an era of stellar wines."
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A new documentary follows four would-be master sommeliers through the rigorous testing process.
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"Sitting on the pleasant porch of a venerable old farmhouse along Napa's famed Silverado Trail this May, it seemed a bit of a surprise that the red wine I swirled in my tasting glass wasn't Cabernet Sauvignon."
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A winery that also has a full complement of animals -- and visitors can meet them.
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The types of wines you'll be faced with at this once-in-a-lifetime destination restaurant.
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"It takes a lot of Amaro to recover from prodigious good wine consumption."
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"We talk a lot about philosophical things, but at the end of the day you want a wine that pleases you, one with a lot of complexity, structure, and balance."
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Some of the more interesting new wines out this year, and where to find them.
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This weekend, learn all about some lesser-known wine grapes.
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Come spring an oenophile's fancy turns to rosés.
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"Goodland is our attempt to find the best wine expression of the different AVAs of Santa Barbara County -- the best combinations of site, soil, climate, grape variety, viticultural management, and winemaking techniques."
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Wine and tomatoes? Do they work together?
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"It's the Run DMC of pinots."
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The winery that looks as pretty as its product tastes.
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"Twenty years ago if we did this tasting it would be about oak. Since then people backed off the oak...maybe because the barrels are $900 each now."
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Some winemakers will let you taste their unfinished wine ... it all feels very illicit!
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"We're not manipulating the wines much, but there's a great level of care. What's necessary is to preserve the quality of the fruit."
-
I like to think of petite sirah as the bastard love child of cabernet sauvignon and zinfandel after a night they both imbibed too much of each other.
-
A recent wine event offered a lesson in pairing pork with light quaffs.
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Some folks want you to think not just of Bobby Wine but wine itself when you think of baseball.
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A music producer is now rocking the reds in Paso Robles.
