Road Trip

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Left early am to drive to Lompoc for a "fund raiser" at Clos Pepe. My friend, William decided to join me.  Got to Buelleton about 10 am and had breakfast at Ellen's.  Always the place for good breakfast.

Hit the Lompoc Wine Ghetteo about 10:45 and tasted at Evening Land, Arcadian and Palmina. All excellent wines

The function at Clos Pepe was at 12 noon. This was a fund raiser for the local libraries. Five wineries were pouring that day along with Clos Pepe.  Ampelos, Kessler-Hawk, Huber, Transcedence along with a winery that ran out of wine before we got to it.

Lots a specialty, gourmet pizzas, farro salad, grilled vegetables, fresh grilled pineapple and mangos along with 4 kinds of brownies.

About 2:15 we left Clos Pepe and went across the road to Huber. I had wine to pick up. After talking with Norman & Traudl for awhile we headed over to Los Olivos. We tasted at Dragonette and Stolpman.

Bought wines at Stolpman, Arcadian, Evening Land and Palimia today. Stolpman has a new wine called Villa Angeli that I had not tasted yet. They did bring it out for us to taste  and I bought several bottles. Excellent addition to their "high end line".

About 5:00 we started to head back. William wanted to stop at AK Spurs and have s teak dinner but that would have added a couple of hours to the trip along with more wine.drinking. That I was not up for.

I was surprised that William had never heard of the Lompoc Wine Ghetto, which now has 19 wineries pouring there and he had never been to the town of Los Olivos. He had driven past it but never stopped. Los Olivos must have 30 wineries with tasting rooms there and its a town that is only 2 blocks by 2 blocks big.

Got back to the OC about 8:00, still daylight, dropped William off and went home to unload wine. Good day.