Exploring Wine Regions – California Central Coast

Exploring Wine Regions – California Central Coast is 436 full-color pages with over 800 spectacular photographic images! This third edition explores California’s Central Coast wine regions of Monterey (Santa Lucia Highlands, Carmel Valley, Carmel-By-The-Sea, etc.), San Luis Obispo (Edna Valley, the new SLO Coast appellation, etc.), including Paso Robles’ 11 appellations, and Santa Barbara (Santa Ynez, Sta. Rita Hills, Los Olivos, Santa Maria Valley appellations, etc.).

The book is of beautiful coffee-table quality that is also a detailed travel guide. It is packed with spectacular photography, entertaining stories and a very educational journey into exploring California’s Central Coast.

Twenty-nine weeks in California’s Central Coast, over a three-year period, during all seasons of the year, including fall harvest times, working with people who are at the forefront of wine and wine hospitality; researching, writing, designing, and producing this spectacular book. It is a one-of-a-kind insider's guide to California’s Central Coast wine regions like never seen before. If you have any interest in California wines, every type of wine is made here. The terroir is incredibly diverse, allowing for the optimum growing of just about any wine grape. Central Coast winemakers tend to be less rigid, more creative, and inventive. The tourism is better than you can imagine. Restaurants and lodging at wineries are becoming common here.

This book details all the information you need to travel to the California Central Coast wine regions: names, addresses, phone numbers, websites, email addresses, and more… of the wineries, hotels, restaurants, and culinary opportunities. Also, numerous outdoor activities. Thirty maps were created showing the regions. Winemakers, agronomists, oenologists, sommeliers, chefs, and more, are included throughout the book. With each winery is the entire lineup of their wines.

This book is written for both the beginning wine lover and the advanced wine connoisseurs. Even if you did not drink wine, this book offers a variety of extraordinary experiences in culinary, romantic, cultural, and outdoor adventures. The book starts at the basics of winemaking and the basics of what makes the Central Coast special in the wine world. And for those ready for more, this book digs deep into the micro-appellations and sub-regions and their special terroirs and characteristics. Innovative and cutting-edge oenologist provide their insight into making unique and spectacular wines. It is a 436-page educational journey into exploring the excellent wines, phenomenal foods and amazing tourism along the Central Coast of California,