When you think of Tahiti, you may think of a plethora of fruity tropical drinks, made with coconuts, mangos, passionfruit, pineapple…the list goes on. But wine? Yes! Tahiti has its own wine! Vin de Tahiti is produced from grapes grown in the heart of the South Pacific. The vineyard is located on Rangiroa in the …
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Texas, Florida, New York, Washington and New Mexico. With the exception of a short sojourn to the Florida Keys in May, tropical travels took a backseat for me in 2019. Instead, I visited parts of the U.S. that were completely new to me. Most of them focused, at least in part, on wine regions. April …
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Rangiroa, the largest atoll in the Tuamotus chain and one of the largest in the world, had been on my radar for more than two decades…and now we had arrived!
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Springtime is a glorious time of year to visit California’s central coast. I spent the first nine days of April 2016 in a roughly 200-mile area within Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties, venturing as far north as Paso Robles…
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Springtime is a glorious time of year to visit California’s central coast. I spent the first nine days of April 2016 in a roughly 200-mile area within Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties, venturing as far north as Paso Robles…
Category: Blog, California, Home news, Homepage, Hotels and Resorts, slider, Uncategorized, wineries Tags: Allegretto Vineyard Resort, California, Dunning VIneyards, FARMstedEd, Jesse James, NATJA, Paso Robles, Paso Robles Inn, Rancho Dos Amantes, Re:Find, San Luis Obispo County, Tablas Creek Vineyard, Taste in the Alley, The Chocolate Stache, The Ddekka Bus, The Groves on 41, Thomas Hill Organics Bistro, Windrose Farm