It's California Wine month and Yolo County has a ton of award winning wines, amazing tasting experiences and vineyards right in our own backyard. We're here to share a fantastic article Evan Ream wrote for the Davis Enterprise about Yolo's wine scene. Keep reading for details and a huge thanks to Evan and The Davis Enterprise for letting us share this piece.
Fred Manas is a rancher, in the fullest sense of the term. He grows and harvests good things to eat: a variety of fruits on 60 acres around Esparto, almost all of it sold on the premises, and Angus-Hereford cattle run in the fields and foothills of Napa and Yolo counties, which is processed and sold at his namesake meat market near town. He wears what suits him: jeans with a large tarnished buckle, stripped shirt with two pockets, cowboy boots that haven’t polished since he bought them, and a hat no one else in the world could get away with wearing.
Fred Manas is a rancher, in the fullest sense of the term. He is friendly, convivial, warm-hearted, generous. He is intelligent, focused, hard-working, genuine. There is no one who does not like him, and he is widely admired.
Sometimes we miss out on activating all of our senses to achieve relaxation or simply find an escape from day-to-day stress. Many of us opt to enjoy a glass of wine or a delicious meal, but then all we are left with is a full belly and maybe even a hangover. What...
Now Open: The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Ask Davis residents where they should take visitors, and most will mention the UC Davis Arboretum. The 100-acre public garden is the community’s most spectacular asset. And it’s free. About the arboretum This “living museum” spans about 100 acres, and showcases...
With a half-dozen microbreweries producing insanely good craft beers—Eye of the Lager, anyone?—Yolo County is becoming one of California’s capitals of beer touring
“Beer,” Trent Yackzan says, “is an emotional beverage.”
Yackzan is sipping one of his beers at his Sudwerk Brewing Company in Davis. And it only takes one sip of Sudwerk’s Cascaderade IPA or Big DIPL to realize that he is right. Beer is an emotional beverage, and the emotions it stirs most strongly are happy ones. Joy, exhilaration, delight —it would take a million emoji’s to fully express the pleasure you feel when drinking a really good glass of beer.
We asked long-time Sunset Magazine travel editor Peter Fish to visit Winters and tell us what he found there ~ here is his entertaining report.
HERE WE ARE, my wife and I, in downtown Winters, California, on a fine Saturday afternoon. On the sidewalk on Main Street, just outside Berryessa Gap Vineyards’ tasting room, a small sandwich board sign shares a profound piece of wisdom: WINE IS ALWAYS THE ANSWER.
This day in Winters, we quickly learn the sign is correct. If your questions are: (A) how to spend a really fun afternoon; and (B) explore a very pretty downtown; and (C) meet interesting people, wine-tasting in Winters is always the answer.
