Celebrate #GrenacheDay Friday, September 17 with A Toast to Its Founder, The Late Steven Spurrier
This year the Grenache Association is asking all wine lovers to raise a glass of Grenache and toast wine savant and entrepreneur Steven Spurrier who passed on March 9, 2021. Continue »
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An unmistakable blue-purple clear Syrah crimson in the glass. Toasty and roasty in the nose, glazed shish-ka-bob vegetables, a shrill young pepper storming through cinnamon and ginger-glazed licorice, carrying angelic darling boysenberry and rose-hips SO saline, SO petrichor, SO gratingly gorgeous–I haven’t tasted anything like this South of Sonoma Coast. Continue »
20 Questions with… Doug Margerum - Edible Homefront
This week we are kicking off a new series called ’20 Questions with…’—where we ask light-hearted yet thought-provoking questions to some of the most fascinating people in the food and wine world. Continue »
California Dreaming
A LOOK AT HOW THE CULINARY SCENE IN THE SANTA BARBARA REGION HAS EVOLVED SINCE JULIA’S TIME THERE. Continue »
Natural History of Wine: Entomology & Margerum- Santa Barbara Independent
How could a tiny, enigmatic insect change the way that nearly all winemaking grapes are grown across the globe? Continue »
Welcome Back to Santa Barbara Wine Country with Doug Margerum- Santa Barbara Wine Country
Join us in a virtual wine tasting with Doug Margerum of Margerum Wine Company for an inside look into Santa Barbara Wine Country and learn more about Margerum Wine Company! Watch now! Continue »
COVID Does Not Affect the Grapes by UCSB Alumni Milestones
Winemaker Doug Margerum, ’81, will go to great lengths to create some of the finest wines in the world. Continue »
Year In Review: Best Wine 2020 by The Written Palette
Barden Wines Fonte White Blend, Sta. Rita Hills 2018: The wine combines Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc, and Pinot Gris to form a wine with lots of structure, depth, and nice acidity. Continue »
Winemaker Doug Margerum promotes other businesses as well as his own.
The 30th best wine of 2020 in the nation came straight out of Santa Barbara County. In wine vocabulary, and according to a senior editor of Wine Enthusiast Magazine, the Margerum M5 White Rhône Blend “sizzles the palate with acidity and ashy, chalky tension, delivering flavors of kiwi, lychee and more stone fruit.” Continue »