Full disclosure: I’m a bit biased on the pairings, so you might need to swing by the LIOCO Healdsburg Tasting Room to get stocked up on wine before making this dinner!! ( ; The most important thing about a romantic dinner is to ensure that you aren’t too stressed out...
Every year in January, we release our appellation level wines. The word “appellation” denotes a geographically defined viticultural area. These wines represent some of the best values in our portfolio in the same way that in Burgundy their “villages” wines do. LIOCO’s...
Winter invites a scenery change. We are seemingly always packing up the car and on our way to some special California place. When we’re not scouting new California vineyards, we tend to land somewhere quiet and restorative–some place with Big Nature and of...
Winter time in Healdsburg. There’s a lot of meat on that bone. While most of the visitors to our region come during the summer and fall months, here’s a PRO TIP: come during the winter. During the cold months when all the wines are barreled down for their winter...
The holidays are here and with them, the Feasting Season! The late autumn and early winter months invite more time in the kitchen, pouring over cookbooks, playing with the slow-cooker, and pulling out those special bottles reserved for this time of year. As for...
California Chardonnay is not just a Fat Elvis Why is Chardonnay simultaneously adored and maligned? This is a question I wrestled with before founding LIOCO Wine Company back in 2005. One of my first realizations was that this was more of a California wine problem. In...