Simple Roast Potatoes – From an Idahoan!

This recipe, handed down from my father’s family, is intended as a side dish for a roast of turkey or beef. It is a reminder of my family’s emigration from Ireland at the height of the potato famine in 1848. It is a simple dish, enunciating the flavors of the potato accented by a few…

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Harvesting Spring, in the Fall – The Making of Occasio Rosé

Soon we will be harvesting Pinot Noir for what will become our sixth vintage of Rosé.  This early season wine is highly praised (the Santa Rosa Press Democrat selected Occasio as a Top Five producer of California Rosé), with our Rosé of Pinot Noir having been called “a glass of spring.”  So popular is this “season in…

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