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Reliving a REALLY good wine vacation
Wedding Hill, Adelaida Cellars in Paso Robles
Cracking open the fine story entitled Paso Robles at a crossroads While its wines win praise, an adolescent region struggles to establish its identity from the San Francisco Chronicle, certainly took me back to last year at about this time, when I visited Paso with a few wine-enthusiastic friends. The visit was memorable for more reasons than one. For starters, standing atop Adelaida Cellars’ Wedding Hill, from which the photo above was taken, was a rather stunning experience in and of itself.
It’s apparent from the Chronicle’s story that Paso is experiencing some substantial growing pains, and the laid-back, mutually supportive atmosphere that we encountered a year ago may be eroding. That’s a shame. Because this is a special place, worth visiting, worth celebrating, worth preserving.
Cheers!
Mark
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By Dennis S.
May 1, 2007 12:19 AM | Link to this
The SF Chronicle story on the dueling appellations was good…as far as it went. It gave some interesting historical background but didn’t really dissect the heart of the matter. I gather the sidebar was supposed to do that but it was way too general. Today, a similar and much more detailed story by Laura Ness was posted on the front page of AppellationAmerica.com. It really gets much more into the details of the real discussion of the two appellation proposals and the players behind each one, as well as their motivations.