The Spring 2010 Alternative Season!

Hold on to your wine glasses everyone because colorandaroma is going places where no wine magazine has ever gone before.
We will be elegantly blending wine, art, music and entertainment from March 20 through June 20, 2010!
Stay tuned for our special guest contributors…
Cheers,
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California’s Great Missions: Romance, Controversy, Heritage

Some places were founded by great armies as they emerged victorious from difficult battles and successful invasions. Others became places by royal decree. But California, one of the largest economies in the world, was founded with a degree of humility by a five-foot two-inch priest named Junípero Serra.
Fourth-grade teachers across the state of California continue [...]

Wild West-Side Wine Country: Paso Robles

The bright December sun was warming the moist, fertile soil. Waiting for their turn to soak up the heat, the precious vines formed precise rows that smoothed the rugged hills like a manicure. Two dogs ran ahead with unabated enthusiasm. Winemaker Ryan Hebert planted each step with the slow caress of intimate knowledge of the [...]

A Small Winery Renaissance in Southern California

A growing number of Southern California winemakers are producing premium wines in small-scale production, which is good news for the Southern California wine consumer. Wine lovers in California’s southern reaches are becoming savvy to the fact that Napa, Sonoma or even Paso Robles aren’t the only places to turn to for a good bottle of [...]

The Mission Grape: Spain’s Gift to California

photo by Eric Stoner
It took the Franciscans 65 years to build California’s 21 missions and only a few decades for many of their buildings and possessions to fade away. However, the Franciscans left behind one thing that survives today — their import of the Spanish wine grape known in California as the “Mission grape.” A [...]