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MacRostie Winery and Vineyards

Sonoma’s Fabulous Summer Kicks-Off With Pride and Wine

Sonoma’s Reopening Revs Up With Pride As Queer Wine Lovers Return To Wine Country by Heather Cassell Summer in Sonoma County is going to be fabulous! Visitors flocked to the wineries Memorial Day Weekend, the first unofficial weekend of summer vacation, signaling the near end of the global pandemic at least in sunny California. The […]

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Wine Lovers Can Sip And Swirl At Their Favorite Wineries Again

Wineries Forced To Go Virtual With Their Tastings During The Pandemic, Slowly Are Opening Tasting Rooms As Summer Begins by Heather Cassell Wineries rushed to prepare to open their tasting rooms as the State released new guidelines giving wineries the green light to start pouring again earlier this week. California’s wineries were promptly shuttered in […]

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Tomales Farmstead Cheese (Photo: Courtesy of California Cheese Trail)

It’s The Cheese For The New California Cheese Trail App

It’s cheesy goodness along California’s Cheese Trail.

Now it’s easier than ever to find the more than 70 creameries in the Golden State with the California Cheese Trail’s new app launched July 19.

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Humanitarian photographer Lisa Kristine being helped out of a mine shaft in Ghana. (Photo: Courtesy of Lisa Kristine Gallery)

The World Through Lisa Kristine’s Lens

Humanitarian and fine art photographer Lisa Kristine chats with Girls That Roam about photographing cultures around the world, modern day slavery and seeing it all through the lens of her camera

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California Cheese Gets Smart with New Cheese Trail App

by Heather Cassell Cheese lovers visiting California now have access to 150 cheeses made by 56 artesian cheese makers and creameries through a new free smart phone app by the California Cheese Trail. The new app available for iPhone offers easy access to farm tours and in-depth information about cheese makers throughout California along with […]

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Out in the Vineyard guests at the Winemaker Dinner with B. Wise Vineyars at Estate Restaurant in 2012. (Photo: Courtesy of Out in the Vineyard)

Savor and Sip in Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino

Travelers seeking a wine getaway in Northern California’s famed Napa, Sonoma, and up- and-coming Mendocino counties can’t go wrong no matter what time of the year they visit, but the best time of the year for a wine vacation is in October.

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Five Fabulous Years of Fabulosa Fest

Hundreds of women will head to the fifth annual Fabulosa Fest to camp out and frolic in the sun listening to great music, check out crafts and attend workshops, swim in the creek, and maybe even partake in a little mud wrestling at Walker Creek Ranch in Sonoma County, CA on July 20 – 22.

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Big Grape Adventure: Sheldon Wines

All it took was a one kiss and Tobe and Dylan Sheldon, owners of Sheldon Wines, were off on a wild wine adventure.

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