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Introducing Paso Robles’ First Fully Dedicated Wine Tour Vehicle Pictured here: seven of my two-case-capacity cold bags that keep your wine tasting-room temp, even on our hottest days! I’ve been using this cold bag system for many years now. Total case capacity without impinging on the passenger area is 21...
About Commercial Insurance Coverage and CA PUC Permitting… I carry $1.5 million in commercial insurance and have an Active Class A TCP Permit (Transportation Charter Party), as required by the California Public Utilities Commission: my TCP number is 35785. I am compliant with records, drug and alcohol testing, and all...
Tales of a Central Coast Limo Driver Back in the day, as you may have read elsewhere on this website, I drove limos for transportation companies based in Santa Barbara County. This piece started as a list I made after a doubting Thomas, whose universe exists mostly way out here...
Wine Tasting Techniques Here's a simple guide to help launch your wine tasting career. Tasting techniques are discussed. Wine etiquette is also a key component to enjoying wine among other wine enthusiasts- with the cornerstone principal being no body fragrance of any kind. This can affect the tasting experience of...
Meet John Ziegler of Intimate Wine Weddings and Elite Wine Tours Paso Kris Williams | Voyage LA Magazine Today we’d like to introduce you to John Ziegler. It started out as a desire to do something different. John came from boat building in Santa Barbara, and an association that started...
I've known Jonathan as a client almost as long as I've been doing wine tours. And I'm proud to say I've known Krista almost as long as Jonathan has. I'll never forget how she bravely piled into Dave's SUV (another longtime client) as moxie solo chick along with all Jonathan's Chicago and...
What about the Eastside? Some folks are pretty set when it comes to declaring what they think they like in Paso by splitting it in two- using U.S. Highway 101 as the North-South seam that defines Eastside and Westside districts. Seems the Westside wineries garner much of the buzz and...
A new trend utilizing winemaking byproduct is catching on in wine regions across the nation. Several distilling operations have popped up in North SLO County over the last couple years that use the early bleed off of juice in red grape fermentation to make an awesome array of flavored hooch....
After watching four cycles of the Garagiste Festival come and go in Paso Robles and Santa Ynez Valley, plus hearing and reading about the winemaker buzz, I finally realized Garagiste presented an amazing opportunity to become the better-informed unique and boutique wine tour guy. I felt rather stupid for ignoring...
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