{"id":1942,"date":"2021-09-28T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2021-09-28T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T14:24:43","slug":"californias-central-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=1942","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Central Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is meaningful to say that you are visiting a specific area of Wine Country.\u00a0 You don\u2019t say, \u201cWe\u2019re going to France for wine tasting\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s too big and too varied, so you might say Bordeaux or Burgundy.\u00a0 California is very large and varied as well, so you say Napa Valley or Sonoma County.\u00a0 But if you say that you\u2019re going wine tasting in California\u2019s Central Coast, you\u2019re covering an area so vast that it\u2019s hard to say anything meaningful at all.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s more than 300 miles from Santa Barbara to Alameda County, the southern and northern extremes of the Central Coast.\u00a0 Some AVAs are well established; they\u2019ve been making wine in and around Santa Barbara since the days of the Spanish colonization.\u00a0 Other areas have only recently realized that excellent wine can be made from grapes grown on their soil.\u00a0 For instance, there have only been vineyards in the Santa Lucia Highlands since the 1970\u2019s.\u00a0 So let\u2019s take an abbreviated tour up the coast.<\/p>\n