California South Coast Wineries Guide
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Our easy to use and comprehensive winery guide that has no equal. We believe you're the best critic, so we provide you with the most essential and up-to-date information for each winery, so you can make your own wine touring and tasting decisions.
Corey Lee Wilson
Corey Lee Wilson was raised an atheist by his liberal Playboy Bunny mother, has three Anglo-Latino siblings, a brother who died of AIDS, a biracial daughter, baptized a Protestant by his conservative grandparents, attended temple with his Jewish foster parents, baptized again as a Catholic for his first Filipina wife, attends Buddhist ceremonies with his second Thai wife, became an agnostic on his own free will for most of his life, and is a lifetime independent voter.Corey felt the sting of intellectual humility by repeating the 4th grade and attended 18 different schools (17 in California and one in the Bahamas) before putting himself through college at Mt. San Antonio College (without parents) and Cal Poly Pomona University (while on triple secret probation). Named Who's Who of American College Students in 1984, he received a BS in Economics (summa cum laude) and won his fraternity's most prestigious undergraduate honor, the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity's Shideler Award, both in 1985.As a satirist and fraternity man, Corey started Fratire Publishing in 2012 and transformed the fiction "fratire" genre to a respectable and viewpoint diverse non-fiction genre promoting practical knowledge and wisdom to help everyday people navigate safely through the many hazards of life. In 2019, he founded the SAPIENT Being to help promote freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, intellectual humility and most importantly advance sapience in America's students and campuses.
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California South Coast Wineries Guide - Corey Lee Wilson
An Introduction to California Wineries
A bunch of grapes with leaves Description automatically generatedPoster, “Wine Land of America” | National Museum of American HistoryCalifornia is the largest and most important wine region in the USA. It accounts for the southern two-thirds of the country's west coast and spans almost ten degrees of latitude. With mountains, valleys, plains and plateaus, California's topography is as complex as its climate, offering winegrowers an abundant number of terroir (soils) from which to grow grapes and produce a diverse variety of wines.
Today, California hosts some of the world's largest wine companies and is also home to hundreds of boutique wineries, some of which attract astronomical prices for their vintages. Whether through mass production or single-vineyard artisanal winemaking, California produces 90 percent of American-made wine, supplies more than 60 percent of all wine consumed in the country, and is home to 43% of American wineries.
The state's viticultural history dates back more than 200 years from the Spanish missions. However, ever since the 1976 Judgment of Paris, in which a Cabernet Sauvignon from Stags’ Leap Winery and a Chardonnay from Chateau Montelena defeated wines from Bordeaux and Burgundy, there has been much debate in the wine industry about the unique California style.
Most critics agree it all starts with very fruit-forward wines that make extensive use of the optimal growing conditions throughout California’s vast geography and unique climate zones to pick very ripe fruit. These optimal growing conditions throughout California’s eight wine regions, covering more than 4,500 wineries, lead to wines that are very lush and rich in flavor, with a wide variety (varietals) to choose from.
Arguably one of the top winery destinations and wine tasting locations in the world, California’s cornucopia of wineries, distinctive wine regions, and extensive number of varietals—are hard to beat, and the state is ranked fourth in the world if you count the number of wineries that dot America’s largest Pacific Coast state.
California Winery Guides
At www.Winery-Guides.com, our goal is to produce and publish the most complete and up-to-date California winery guides so that everyone—from novice to connoisseur, can enjoy the bounty and diversity of California’s wine harvest and the savory juices and varietals that come with them—year after year.
Along with this annual goal as our motivation comes our mission to make the vast array and assortment of California grapes, wines and wineries more visible and accessible—and in the process, enhance and expand wine appreciation, wine tasting, and wine tourism throughout California’s eight wine regions.
Because there is so much to see, smell, taste, and savor throughout California’s wine regions—we have created eight winery guides to compliment the eight distinct wine regions listed below from the largest to the smallest in regards to the number of wineries.
The geographical focus of this particular California wineries guidebook is the South Coast wine region of California. Enjoy!
Napa
Sonoma
Central Coast
Sierra Foothills & Central Valley
Bay Area
South Coast
North Coast
Monterey
How Our Wineries Guide Works
A bunch of grapes with leaves Description automatically generatedOur easy to use and comprehensive winery guide for the 21st century that has no equal. We believe you’re the best critic, so we provide you with the most essential and up-to-date information for each winery so you can make your own decisions. As to which wineries we list? We list all of them, provided they have posted
and defined
tasting schedules and meet the criteria below. Furthermore, we have no preference as to their size, reputations, awards won, how long they’ve been established, etc. We’re not pretentious.
The only exceptions for excluding a winery will be if their ABC Class 2–Winegrower license and/or other local licenses are not active, they haven’t opened their doors yet, don’t offer tasting in any type of venue, don’t have a website, or Facebook page, or listing in any of the popular winery review/travel sites, or some informational online source like Yelp that we can include the link of, so our readers can follow it and learn more about that particular winery.
In essence, our guide provides a taste of each winery’s essential information (all pun intended), starting with their name, address, email address (if they have one), and their online information link as noted above.
Next comes their wine tasting hours of operation, days of the week for tasting, and if reservations are required ahead of visiting the winery for tasting. Even if no reservations are required, it’s always smart to contact the winery ahead of time, particularly the boutique wineries, at least 72 hours in advance, if you’re not already in the immediate area so as not to waste a trip and be disappointed if they’re not open. It happens!
Following, are a winery’s typical amenities such as providing comedy, private or public events, food (can range from breads, cheeses, crackers, cold cuts, sandwiches, pizzas, food trucks, catered food, to complete dinners), lodging, music, picnic area, tasting (which can be limited to only off-site tasting events or local pick-up only), winery and/or cellar tours, weddings, and a wine club if they have one.
Then we list in alphabetical order their varietals (but no blends because they’re so many to consider), finished off with a brief introduction about the winery in their own words.
To savor more about the winery and what the buzz is about them (oh ya, more puns), take the time to follow their online link and learn more about the winery from the winery themselves, winery review sites, wine critics, or other industry sources.
A fast, easy, organized guidebook that is updated yearly! Just the kind you need so you can spend more time planning your wine tasting, identifying and selecting the wineries that suit your palette (one last pun, we can’t help it), and getting the most pleasure and satisfaction out of it when you’re out and about wine tasting.
The 8 Wine Regions of California
This California wineries guidebook is part of a series of guidebooks covering the eight wine growing regions in California. In many wine enthusiast circles, there’s a consensus on the boundaries of some of the wine region—but for others, there is no unifying consensus.
Nonetheless, at www.Winery-Guides.com we based our regional designations on a number of factors using geographic location, overall size, distinct wine appellations, wine growing associations, and other considerations explained in more detail below.
We also factored in the sheer number of wineries (4,763 to be exact in 2021 and more on the way every year), their concentration throughout the state of California, proximity of wineries to major populations centers (like the Bay Area and Los Angeles for example), distance and drive times to get to each wine region, and the wine region’s climate, topography, and geology.
In addition to the above, where a previously defined wine region covered a large area and/or many wineries in a particular area, and to align each wine region more closely to their respective travel, convention, and tourist bureau definitions that help define their regional boundaries, we separated the wine regions into smaller and more distinct areas—thus the eight wine regions.
A perfect example of this regarding the geographic size of a wine region separated into smaller areas is the Central Coast. The Central Coast covers twelve California counties (that include eight Bay Area, two in the Monterey area, and two more in the redefined Central Coast area of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties), a combined area larger than many of America’s smaller states.
Almost as long as Florida’s 360-mile-long eastern coastline, the Central Coast wine region covers a significant area from the NW corner of Marin County, all the way down to the SW corner of Santa Barbara County, a distance of 350 miles and close to six hours of drive time from one end to the other along US Highway 101.
For these reasons, the Central Coast wine region is divided into three smaller and more cohesive regions, with the Bay Area (eight counties and over 200 wineries) taking up the north end, the Monterey area (two counties approaching 100 wineries) holding the middle, and the revised and resized Central Coast region consisting of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties area (two counties and over 500 wineries), taking up the south end.
The North Coast wine region is another example of splitting up a large number and high concentration (1,000 plus) of wineries. These wineries are concentrated into the previously designated and all-encompassing North Coast wine region covering Napa and Sonoma counties, along with the four counties northward consisting of Mendocino, Humboldt, Lake, and Trinity counties (containing more than 100 wineries combined).
The Napa and Sonoma counties and wine regions, to no one’s surprise, have always held their own as distinct wine regions of California. However, because they both have so many appellations (17 and 19 for a total of 36), they are subdivided into sub-regions to match the appellations they have.
Lastly, in defining which counties to include in the Bay Area wine region, we included all the counties bordering the Bay Area’s coastlines (except Sonoma and Napa counties). To be precise, if you zoom in on a map of the Bay Area, Napa County doesn’t touch the bay, but almost does.
So how many bays, in the Bay Area system, are there besides the San Francisco Bay that these eight Bay Area counties touch? If we head north of San Fracisco Bay in San Pablo Bay and then head east towards Sacramento, we come to Suisun Bay, and the lesser known Grizzly and Honkers bays adjoining Suisun Bay.
Besides Napa County which has its own wine region, there is one county that doesn’t touch any of the bays, and it’s Santa Cruz County, an outlier. True, it touches Monterey Bay, but it’s history, economy, and inter-county relationships are more strongly developed and aligned with the Bay Area counties of San Mateo and Santa Clara to the north than Monterey County to the south.
With that noted, www.Winery-Guides.com now identifies three separate wine regions from the all-encompassing North