Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Santa Maria Valley Wine Country

One of the visions that Aimee and I had when we embarked on the dream for the Wine Cottage Bistro was to bridge the gap of food and wine. In the Santa Maria Valley restaurant scene there was a definate disconnect between the two. Living in the middle of some of the most prestigious wine country in the world we are fortunate to have access to the wines, winemakers, growers and vineyard managers that we do. At the WCB we wanted to take advantage of this fact. As we go through the growing pains of a new business we sometimes have to focus on other details of running the restaurant instead of the ones that we'd really like to. Hopefully all of the tedious details are working themselves out and we can now focus back on our goal of bringing the wonderful wines of the SMV together with our local food.

A new facet of our wine program that we are working on now is a "Taste of....". This program is a food and wine program featuring a certain growing region and the food that the area is known for. We will be starting with our very own Santa Maria Valley and progress outward until we have covered the globe. We are very excited to be able to offer this program of entertainment and education. Keep in touch with our progress. We are looking to roll this out in January of 2007 unless we are just dying to get it out to you and we do it sooner! You never know.
Rebecca