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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR – THE GAMES HAVE BEGUN!
It is hard to believe but it has been almost 30 years since we bought our land here in Montecito, about 25 years since we started building, and nearly 22 years since we moved in, which just happened to correspond with the beginning of the millennium. Adjacent to us across San Ysidro Creek is the […]
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Yes it is hard to believe that Thanksgiving is almost here again. But that is always a good thing! Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays. It is a time to give thanks for all our blessings and be with family and friends and enjoy great food and wine. My wife Laurie and […]
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My birthday is March 27 and this year I turned 77. I planned a birthday celebration with a few friends at Canyon Villa in Paso Robles, but unfortunately I wound up in the hospital on my birthday which meant that the celebration was postponed until September 30. Canyon Villa is a wonderful inn and restaurant […]
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The Event & The Venue I was born in 1944 and this last March 27 was my 75th birthday. I had always planned to have one of my birthday wines on this milestone birthday. My wife Laurie and I invited a few friends and chose The Canyon Villa for the event. The […]
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Wow hard to believe, but it’s that time of year again. And, for us 2018 was a very unpredictable year. Yes, we were blessed with our new grandson, Chase, who is an absolute joy. But, a lot of the other things we had expected did not happen. And, unfortunately a lot of things that […]
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HILLSIDE HOUSE DINNER @ BACCHUS SEPTEMBER 11, 2018 At this year’s annual Hillside House Sunset Soirée fundraising dinner (to read about the event click here ) my wife Laurie and I donated two wine and food dinners at our house, which is named Bacchus after the Roman god of wine. The first of those […]
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As humans we are all confronted with the fact that none of us can accurately see the future. Yet that does not stop some from professing to have magical predictive powers. But, most of us learn to expect the unexpected. Even so, 2017 brought several twists in my life. For a part of the […]
Click here to read entire article »A GRAND FOOD & WINE EVENT FEATURING OLD CALIFORNIA CABERNETS FROM INGLENOOK AND DIAMOND CREEK
OLD CALIFORNIA CABERNET TASTING WITH JOHN TILSON 12/13/14 Dinner by Kelsie Kerr of Standard Fare, Berkeley 1960 Inglenook Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 1959 Inglenook Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 1958 Inglenook Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 1956 Inglenook Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 1955 Inglenook Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 1949 Inglenook Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon […]
Click here to read entire article »RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: VOLUME III, NUMBER 4 (FEBRUARY– MARCH, 1982)
In the early months of 1982, Volume III, Number 4 offered the following articles: One Winedrinker’s Opinion – To Decant or Not to Decant?, Coming Attractions, 1976 Sauternes, California Chardonnays, California Cabernet Sauvignons, Selected Tasting Notes, More 1978 Red Burgundies, More 1978 Rhones, and Barrels and Bottles. We are currently reproducing a copy of Volume […]
Click here to read entire article »Retrospective Review: Volume II, Number 4 (February-March, 1981)
We are currently reproducing a copy of Volume II, Number 4 of The Underground Wineletter. Below you’ll find an updated review of each article, where I will go over what we got right and what we got wrong. We will follow this format with each successive issue. So Volume II, Number 5 will be […]
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