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California wine: 2020 Margerum Wine Company Grenache
If you live in Santa Barbara or plan a trip there, make a point to stop by Margerum Wine Company. With a hip tasting room down near the beach, just off State Street, the winery offers a wide variety of wines, all made with local fruit. Beyond the Margerum wines, you’ll find Doug Margerum’s second label called Barden, made exclusively with grapes grown in the Sta. Rita Hills AVA. Continue »
Feb 18, 2022 at 9:08 AM
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The 10 Best Wine Values of 2021 - Wine Spectator
“Producers fall into one of two camps: Those who take less conventional paths, and those who take the purist route of blessing Rhône grape varieties. Both options can yield decisions results. Margerum’s M5 is a white Rhône-style blend, similar to Châteauneuf-du-Pape Blanc, offering a mix of Grenache Blanc, Marsanne, Viognier, Roussanne and Picpoul Blanc grapes. Proprietor Doug Margerum prefers cold fermentations, which preserves the freshness of the fruit flavors” Continue »
Feb 3, 2022 at 2:14 PM
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Aromas del Terruño Margerum Wines
Doug Margerum has been involved in the Santa Barbara food and wine scene for over 35 years. In 2001, Margerum Wine Company started in a small 240-square-foot cold room behind Brander Vineyards. The philosophy: return winemaking to its previous form of production: handmade and personal. Continue »
Jan 31, 2022 at 8:44 AM
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Treat your valentine to something sweet (and bitter) - FOOD + HOME
Margerum Amaro & chocolate article featured in the new issue of Food & Home. Continue »
Jan 24, 2022 at 12:54 PM
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Wine Enthusiast Region of the Year Video Release: Our Region
A 2-minute video describing our region. Impossible! We have too much to offer! Still, we created the richest two minutes we could, knowing there is always more. Continue »
Jan 17, 2022 at 10:34 AM
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Best Santa Barbara Wineries Tasting Guide- thedeliciouslife.com
Tastings are on the patio, and spill out onto tables and chairs along the sidewalk. There is an indoor space with a bar that makes Margerum feel like an actual wine bar. Availability inside depends on current local covid restrictions. The Margerum tasting room is one of a few tasting rooms on the Urban Wine Trail that offers its own full food menu. Continue »
Nov 22, 2021 at 9:04 AM
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Episode 33: Doug Margerum, Margerum Wine Company- Cork & Taylor Wine Podcast
This week, we sit down and chat with Doug Margerum of Margerum Wine Company. We talk alot of food and wine with some funny stories. We also tasted two of his wine selections. Continue »
Nov 18, 2021 at 9:17 AM
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Two Decades of Margerum Wine’s M5
Doug Margerum Shares 18 Vintages of His Signature Red Rhône Blend Continue »
Nov 16, 2021 at 1:37 PM
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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 »
Sep 16, 2021 at 9:59 AM
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Hop on Bard - A Daily Journal of Fruit, Structure, Varietal honesty, and Balance.
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 »
Jun 18, 2021 at 9:05 AM
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