When it was announced last year that the Clos Pepe vineyard in the Sta. Rita Hills would be leased out for the foreseeable future and that the Clos Pepe Estate brand would go on hiatus, there was ...

About a month ago, Walt wines, the Pinot Noir-based sister brand of the Cabernet-centric Hall winery in Napa Valley, quietly announced it will start leasing the respected Clos Pepe vineyard, in ...

In January, Wes Hagen pruned the grape vine growing up walls and over the trellis at the Avila Adobe on Olvera Street in Los Angeles. He later returned to take cuttings from the historic vine. “Our ...

Alisos Canyon, Santa Barbara County’s newest American Viticultural Area, is a stand-alone AVA within the greater Central Coast AVA, as is the one designating the Santa Maria Valley. (Santa Barbara ...

California Winemaker Wes Hagen will be the guest of honor on Wednesday at Sansei Seafood Restaurant & Sushi Bar in Kihei for a special dinner. -- Photo courtesy Sansei Kihei At 6 p.m. Wednesday, ...

Buellton — ON the website for Wes Hagen’s vineyard and winery, you’ll find the usual pictures of family members and pets. But you’ll also find a bonus -- full-color photographs of dirt. Not just any ...

Winemaker Wes Hagen, who describes himself as someone who “teaches wine whenever people will listen to me,” will return to the classroom this spring to teach three wine and food pairing classes at ...

When you think of California wine, you probably think Napa, Sonoma or maybe Paso Robles, but the state’s first major wine hub was right here in L.A. back in the 1800s. A lot has changed since then, ...

A grapevine seems to float across the top of vendors' stalls in downtown Los Angeles at Olvera Street and the historic El Pueblo complex, its tendrils creeping this way and that, leaves healthy and ...

Instead of trying to salvage any semblance of entertainment or connection through digital means, the organizers are simply asking supporters to buy $150 tickets, perhaps with all that money you saved ...