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Mexican-style Ceviche Ceviche is one of my favorite and traditional Mexican seafood dishes! It’s refreshing, healthy, light, and perfect with a nice cold white wine. Ceviche is a very popular seafood dish in South America. As summer comes around, ceviche is the perfect appetizer, meal, or snack, you really can’t go wrong! At Locals Tasting…

Do you drink a lot of vino (wine) and throw away numerous bottles frequently? Well, you’re in for a treat! Here are some fun ways to reuse those empty wine bottles (that we tend to accumulate). Fun, easy, and cheap, what more could we ask for? Plant Containers: My personal favorite! Just add some beautiful…

Do you work in the wine industry and have a million spare corks lying around? Or will you be going wine tasting soon? Ask the tasting rooms to give you their corks! They are FREE. We like free things. Below are a few great, quick, and easy ideas for making use of your corks. Corkboard:…

It is recommended to drink at least eight glasses of water each day. Water is the ideal beverage that is refreshing, yet has no calories! So why not try easy infused water recipes to make water more appealing. With summer just around the corner, check out these quick water recipes to try at home!  …

As a Seattleite with numerous West Coast amenities at her disposal—gorgeous topography, picturesque beaches, a necklace of mountains, and three prominent wine regions mere hours away—it’s been hard to justify a trip to California specifically to drink wine. That changed when my friend from Los Angeles called me to coordinate a girls’ wine getaway with…

Hello bloggers! As summer is just around the corner, we have a nice little recipe for all of our Oyster lovers! Recipe by Carolyn's brother Robert Acosta -Lewis INGREDIENTS: One Dozen Oysters (or more) 1 Stick butter Saltines Siracha Put the oysters on a sheet pan and heat them over a grill (charcoal or gas…

April 22, 2014 Hello fellow bloggers, wine club members, and potential Locals tasting room fans! We are very excited to let everybody know that our very own, Carolyn Lewis, has opened yet another great venue for the Locals. Locals2Creative is a unique, authentic boutique located right next door to Locals tasting room in Geyserville, California!…

  Cloverdale is a unique, beautifully preserved area of Northern California. With a population of  8,618, its small town feel makes you feel right at home. The good news is Cloverdale is located approximately 7 miles North of Locals!   http://genuinelycloverdale.com/Home.aspx   Feeling hungry in Cloverdale? *Taqueria El Molcajete: Craving some authentic Mexican food? El…

I hope everyone is doing the rain dance. Nor Cal is like living in Nevada. Hot dry days and cold nights. I am very grateful to have gotten the rain that we have gotten, it sure helps. But it is only helping the now. As far as the conditions of the lakes, they are in…

I love the arrival of a new wine into the room and relish the opportunity to share it with customers, especially club members. So Fred Peterson arrives with a few new wines he's just bottled and wants to share to see if we want them for the room. The first Mendo Blendo is almost a…

Winter is upon us and Sonoma is experiencing one of the warmest and driest I can remember!  The vineyards are sleeping, most are in the tender hands of pruners, getting the winter haircut in preparation for next spring. There is a tendency to romanticize grape growing, but at the end of the day it is…