Best Western Casa Grande Inn, Arroyo Grande Hotels - California
Best Western Casa Grande Inn 3 Stars Arroyo Grande, California Within US Travel Directory Situated off Highway 101 and located near more than 30 local wineries, Best Western Casa Grande Inn features an outdoor pool and spacious rooms with free WiFi. Pismo State Beach is just 4.8 km away.
Flat-screen cable TVs, a coffee maker, and a hairdryer are provided in all rooms at this Arroyo Grande hotel. Each room features simple décor and includes a seating area.
A sauna and relaxing hot tub are offered to all guests. The hotel features a game room. Guests will also receive free passes to the fitness centre next door to the hotel.
A continental breakfast is served each morning at the Casa Grande Inn Best Western.
Le Sage Riviera Golf Course and the Laetitia Vineyard and Winery are both within 10 minutes' drive of this hotel. California Polytechnic State University is 25.3 km away.
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Best Western Casa Grande Inn, 850 Oak Park Boulevard CA 93420, USA
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California Wine Month in San Luis Obispo
Celebrate California Wine Month in San Luis Obispo wine country this September! Enjoy wine tasting at Edna Valley wineries and experience the best California wines during special blending seminars, vineyard tours, winemaker dinners and more. Visit San Luis Obispo this September! #ShareSLO
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Vineyards on the lookout for European Grapevine Moth
Central Coast agricultural officials are on the lookout for the European Grapevine Moth, capable of doing serious damage to local vineyards. The insects were first detected last September in the Napa Valley. So far, they haven't been spotted in the Central Coast area, but crews are out setting traps for the pest.
We went along with agricultural technicians from San Luis Obispo County to the Laetitia Vineyards in Arroyo Grande Wednesday morning as they put up traps in parts of the vineyard.
Nancy David, one of the agricultural technicians who was setting out the traps today said, It's a very simple little trap. It's full of sticky stuff in the middle. Here we will bait it with a non toxic pheromone trap and what this will do is attract the male moths to come in and they'll be checked every two weeks.
One trap is set up for every twenty acres, placed so as the flight paths of the moths will come straight down into the vineyards. A trap is tied to the beginning of a vine post where the moths will enter the trap and get caught into the sticky pheromone bait inside.
Obviously, local vineyards hope that no moths will turn up here, but between now and the end of June, the traps will be checked regularly for the moth. Lino Bozzano, Director of vineyard operations at Laetitia Vineyards says, We're always concerned about new pest outbreaks, anything that can cause damage to the grapevine, things that we don't know how to control yet and what the ultimate impact is.
For now, it's a waiting game, as local vineyards spend extra time closely monitoring their vines. They don't want to see what happened to one vineyard up in Napa County last fall, where the entire grape crop was wiped out by the moth. That led to quarantines in that area of the state.
Pinot Noir by Sweet Whiskey
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Pinot Noir is a red wine grape variety of the species Vitis vinifera. The name may also refer to wines created predominantly from Pinot noir grapes. The name is derived from the French words for pine and black; the pine alluding to the grape variety having tightly clustered, pine cone-shaped bunches of fruit.
Pinot noir grapes are grown around the world, mostly in the cooler regions, but the grape is chiefly associated with the Burgundy region of France. Other regions that have gained a reputation for Pinot noir include the Willamette Valley of Oregon, the Carneros, Central Coast and Russian River AVAs (American Viticultural Area) of California, the Walker Bay wine region of South Africa, Tasmania and Yarra Valley in Australia and the Central Otago, Martinborough and Marlborough wine regions of New Zealand. Pinot noir is also a primary variety used in sparkling wine production in Champagne and other wine regions.
It is widely considered to produce some of the finest wines in the world, but is a difficult variety to cultivate and transform into wine. The grape's tendency to produce tightly packed clusters makes it susceptible to several viticultural hazards involving rot that require diligent canopy management. The thin-skins and low levels of phenolic compounds lends Pinot to producing mostly lightly colored, medium bodied low tannin wines that can often go through dumb phases with uneven and unpredictable aging. When young, wines made from Pinot noir tend to have red fruit aromas of cherries, raspberries and strawberries. As the wines age, Pinots have the potential to develop vegetal and barnyard aromas that can contribute to the complexity of the wine.
By volume most Pinot noir in America is grown in California, with Oregon coming in second. Other regions are the states of Washington, Michigan, and New York.
Oregon wine regions known for producing Pinot noir:
Willamette Valley AVA
Dundee Hills AVA
Eola-Amity Hills AVA
Yamhill-Carlton District AVA
McMinnville AVA
Chehalem Mountains AVA
Ribbon Ridge AVA
California wine regions known for producing Pinot noir are:
Sonoma Coast
Russian River Valley AVA
Central Coast AVA
Sta. Rita Hills
Monterey County / Santa Lucia Highlands
Santa Cruz Mountains AVA
Carneros District of Napa and Sonoma
Anderson Valley
Livermore Valley
San Luis Obispo County / Arroyo Grande Valley, Edna Valley
Sweet Whiskey's original song Pinot Noir leads the listener to the land of the tender grape in France. One need only to listen to the song to sense the open fields of lavender, the rolling hills, and the sun setting on a more than perfect day.
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Pinot Noir
It was that lavender in France as I recall it.
The clusters danced and waved a sweet goodbye
The air was filled with heavy contradiction
No one seemed to notice, why did I?
IN just a moment he'd arrive for my decision
and you know how these decisions are
I couldn't keep him waiting and I'd traveled much too far what will it be? Pinot Noir
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The lavender a rented car in France sippin' Pinot Noir
I'd traveled much too far it had to be Pinot Noir
It was that lavender in France as I recall it.
The deepest shade of indigo at dusk.
First stars penned their autograph above me
To fulfill my secret wanderlust
In Just a moment he'd arrive with my last bar tab
And you know how these last bar tabs are.
Will that be all mademoiselle?
And I had traveled much too far
I'll take a case of that Pinot Noir
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The lavender a rented car in France sippin' Pinot Noir
I'd traveled much too far it had to be Pinot Noir
Project to remove left turns at El Campo Rd./Hwy 101 to proceed
Caltrans says a project to eliminate left turns on Highway 101 at El Campo Rd. and three other intersections between Arroyo Grande and Nipomo will proceed after a judge lifted a temporary stay of the project.
Suspense: Lonely Road / Out of Control / Post Mortem
The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the Wilcox/Autolite run). Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series (featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny. Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly were heard in the episode, Backseat Driver, which originally aired February 3, 1949.
The highest production values enhanced Suspense, and many of the shows retain their power to grip and entertain. At the time he took over Suspense, Lewis was familiar to radio fans for playing Frankie Remley, the wastrel guitar-playing sidekick to Phil Harris in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. On the May 10, 1951 Suspense, Lewis reversed the roles with Death on My Hands: A bandleader (Harris) is horrified when an autograph-seeking fan accidentally shoots herself and dies in his hotel room, and a vocalist (Faye) tries to help him as the townfolk call for vigilante justice against him.
With the rise of television and the departures of Lewis and Autolite, subsequent producers (Antony Ellis, William N. Robson and others) struggled to maintain the series despite shrinking budgets, the availability of fewer name actors, and listenership decline. To save money, the program frequently used scripts first broadcast by another noteworthy CBS anthology, Escape. In addition to these tales of exotic adventure, Suspense expanded its repertoire to include more science fiction and supernatural content. By the end of its run, the series was remaking scripts from the long-canceled program The Mysterious Traveler. A time travel tale like Robert Arthur's The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln or a thriller about a death ray-wielding mad scientist would alternate with more run-of-the-mill crime dramas.