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The Tom Hill Archives
The Los Olivos Wine & Spirits Emporium
presents the musings and reflections of Tom Hill. We think it's great that
Tom, who has sampled so many wines, has shared his tasting notes with us.
We do have, or have had for sale a few of the wines Tom writes about, and
we include a link to our stock page whenever it is a producer we carry
(but since the stock page is kept up-to-date and the wines are sold, don't
expect any but the newest of wines to show up in our stock!). Mostly though,
since we specialize in County of Santa Barbara Wine and Central Coast Wine,
we don't carry a lot of the wines Tom writes about. But we think it is
important that you be able to have an idea what they're like in case you
are planning to buy some somewhere, or have them in your own collection.
Enjoy.
Here are Tom's notes from May 30, 2002:
Garretson Winery
Afore the winemaker's lunch Thurs at Hospice du Rhone,
2002, I thought I'd stop by Mat Garretson's new digs out on 46E in Paso
to take a look/see and try some wines. It was not what I expected. It has
a high-tech/StarWars look from the outside, but it's an obvious/working
winery on the inside. Beating me there was Howard&Rhoda Sherry,
Jeff Pfohl, and Shirene LeClere. It provided me with the perfect opportunity
to model my HdR'02 bowling uniform, created for me by Bernie Roth.
Mat and Amie were suitably impressed/apalled. The rest of my group in the
tasting room pretended not to know me. The Neo-Cod codpiece won appropriately
envious looks throught the rest of the day when it was seen. Sharing the
facility w/ Mat are JustinSmith/SaxumWines, Cris Cherry/VillaCreekrestaurant,
and Ken Winchester. That had done an hospitality tasting that previous
afternoon for the early HdR arrivees, but I was still down South in the
SantaYnez Valley.
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