Category: Winemakers

A WINEMAKER WHO ESCHEWS THE STEREOTYPE   STEREOTYPICAL? Surf, Sand, Sun, and Italian???? freely summarizes San Diegan born turned winemaker Eric Carucci. The Italian Stallion is not quite Sylvester Satallon but his resume is just as impressive for multiple...

GRANT JAMES VINEYARD……... are  the wines that are named after constellations that neighboring vineyards should look up to My quest to explore more South County California AVAs led me to the city of Romona. I’m very familiar with North and Central Coast winegrowing...

Babito and I thought our Google maps failed us because we were diverted to an old almost abandoned building with an unpopulated courtyard. It looked straight out of a Sergio Leone spaghetti western. In the ’40s-’70s, it was a major cooperative brandy distillery, who...