Wednesday, January 18th @ 7 PM, A digital & interactive presentation between you and the consultants!
December twenty first – Santa Barbara has come a L-O-N-G approach in wine and is now acknowledged as one in every of California’s PREMIER areas for distinctive hand crafted artisan wines. The actual fact is, even high stage Napa Valley producers are making Santa Barbara renditions and the checklist of long run wine pioneers has expanded tenfold over the previous 20 years. The Sideways impact has morphed into one thing else because the younger wine drinkers haven’t even seen the film and the area continues so as to add followers for an increasing set of causes.
On January 18th LearnAboutWine will collect six outstanding wine producers to debate the wines of Santa Barbara and to replicate on the previous and peer into the longer term. Wine knowledgeable Ian Blackburn will host the 1.25 hour tasting expertise alongside six high title model Santa Barbara wine icons. Discover Santa Barbara from the consolation of your personal residence and study from the pattern setters themselves – Jeff Nelson, Ernst Storm, Kris Curran, Bruno D’Alfonso, Paul Lato, Matt Dees, and newcomers Mireia Taribó & Tara Gomez! Individuals may have a alternative of (a) tasting flight equipment (six x 2.0 oz) or (b) six bottle equipment delivered proper to your door. Early Chook tickets are on sale now – restricted to 50 friends. Costs enhance because the occasion date approaches! Go to ZOOMINTOWINE.COM for tickets and knowledge.
Wine Record:
- Liquid Farm, Golden Slope Chardonnay, Santa Barbara, California, 2018
- 94 Factors – Offered by Jeff Nelson (Proprietor/CEO)
- Donnachadh Household Vineyards, Property Chardonnay Sta Rita Hills, 2019
- 94 Factors – Offered by Ernst Storm (Winemaker)
- D’Alfonso-Curran, Pinot Noir, Santa Barbara, California, 2018
- Offered by Bruno D’Alfonso & Kris Curran (Winemakers)
- Paul Lato, ‘Ora de Labora’ Bien Nacido Winery Grenache Santa Maria Valley, 2018
- 93 Factors – Offered by Paul Lato (Proprietor/Winemaker)
- Mail Street, Mount Carmel Winery Pinot Noir, Santa Rita Hills, California, 2015
- 96 Factors – Offered by Matt Dees (Winemaker)
- Camins 2 Desires, Syrah, Zotovich Winery, Santa Barbara, California, 2018
- 95 Factors – Offered by Mireia Taribó & Tara Gomez (Co-House owners/Co-Winemakers)
For the next tier (highest?) tasting – see our TASTE OF THE BEST on Dec twenty eighth
ABOUT IAN TODD BLACKBURN
Wine Educator, Skilled Sommelier / Host and Grasp of Wine Scholar – Ian found the wine trade on the ripe age of 21 whereas working for well-known cooks comparable to Thomas Keller and Joachim Splichal within the high eating rooms of Los Angeles. The invention of wine and his countless want for information shortly engulfed Ian’s life. His ardour would ultimately redirect his profession from eating places and resorts to vineyards and training. In 1995 LearnAboutWine.com was born, turning into the primary web site devoted to wine training.
With over 25-years of expertise touring the wine world, Ian is a broadcast writer (Wiley Publications, 2002), has 10 vintages of high stage winemaking on his resume at Beekeeper Cellars, and is taken into account one of many area’s finest wine educators. Ian’s push to evolve and his capability to pivot has produced a strata of latest ideas comparable to, ZoomIntoWine.com (digital training), MerchantofWine.com (the household’s on-line wine retailer), and now the return of in-person gatherings with LearnAboutWine.com. Ian maintains excessive ranges of leisure and enthusiasm at his occasions by utilizing all the nice gathering spots in LA as potential venues. All whereas making a reputation for himself within the wine trade, Ian has by no means forgotten to provide again to the neighborhood. Over the previous couple of years he has raised over $650,000 for the T.J. Martell Basis, which donates to the Kids’s Hospital Los Angeles to assist fund analysis to remedy most cancers in youngsters. The mixed charity efforts of LearnAboutWine have raised over 1,000,000 {dollars} for quite a lot of causes all through Los Angeles and past.
