Savor the Central Coast

logo savor Savor the Central CoastWhoowhee, but we love us some central California…especially its wine valleys.

Happy for us, then, that Sunset Magazine is soon sponsoring a four-day event on a ranch in San Luis Obispo County to celebrate the tastes and vintages of the entire region.

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Central California: The Santa Maria Wine Valley

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View from Firestone Winery - Photo by Minuk

About 20 minutes up above Santa Barbara, the Santa Maria Wine Valley is peppered with gorgeous driving, great food and sweet little places to shop.

And if you’re into wine?  Boy, are you two in for a treat.

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Central California: The Santa Ynez Wine Valley

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View from the tasting room at Lafond Winery, Buellton, California

In the Santa Ynez Wine Valley, 40 minutes north of  Santa Barbara in Central California, the game plan is easy:

Pick up two wine glasses, gaze up at a windmill and head off down a garden path.

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Romancing the Old West: Alisal Guest Ranch

* I was a sponsored guest of Alisal Guest Ranch, but all opinions are my own

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Last week in Central California, I went back a-ways in time, to the Alisal Guest Ranch’s slow, green and peaceful slice of the Old West.

At this working ranch/rustic chic resort, you can ride horses over rolling hills as as golden light settles on the lake, sip hand-crafted wines beneath a sky full of stars, and sway to some cowboy poetry. It’s a lovely place to rediscover some frontier history… and each other.

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Off to California

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Santa Ynez Valley - Photo by Renee Nichols

True, we live in Los Angeles, but this week is about experiencing two wholly different versions of California:

ranch resort in the Santa Barbara wine country and a garden cottage in Marin County.

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