this is a grand day here in the central coast where there's been best food so fresh the produce is unbelievable the colors just pop and then you know the winds are so extraordinary you're going to tell me all about this and introduce everybody hi i'm cheryl coming i run the wine coast country region of san luis obispo county and it's john's right it's just amazing here and so much so happy to be hearing about all you new yorkers but not only that i mean we're here has a passion for what they're doing and it really reflects in the produce and the products that they deliver at the end and i think that's really what this whole thing is about and talk about the bear itself the sub or which is just fantastic yes wonderful yes we just had a four day event called sunset magazine favor the central coast and it was wonderful there were well over three hundred wineries involved seven central coast counties chef demonstrations tyler florence all kinds of wonderful things how to build a chicken coop it was wonderful yeah and it takes you back to nature which i think is wonderful and this is all about nature the best the best pumpkins most colorful and probably the most delicious i'm sure they are and you know it's just something we have a happy acres farm and they do cheese and such and we have sustainable tourism here we have the life we have wine coast countries and bed and breakfasts and bed and breakfasts and lots of vacation appalls i'm going back to nature and being able to hear the whispers of life and smell nature and fresh air and which we don't get back home yes it's wonderful and and this coast of fine is just full of lots of friendly people people love shine in the wine country to california is really amazing i mean you think about you know originally i thought that napa valley was just it i didn't realize that california has six different regions in which they produce wine but this is a very special area and the taken over by the southern pacific railroad which ran the whole length of the state of california was put in last year and the goal is says the economy improves to build a car barn that covers all those tracks also be coming up on the left in a minute you'll see a really old passenger car that was the president's car for the railroads of central america it's on the list to be restored although it's a major major project but it is solid mahogany has a claw foot tub inside it was the president's way of traveling about his railroad back in central america i'm dotty nelson i'm jeff nelson and we're twenty miles inland from the ocean organization and over a period of years we decided what the best use was in began adding rooms and various different accommodations and now we're a retreat facility we can rent two groups up to thirty five it is akin to the national forest lodge for the california foothills it's set in a beautiful growing oak hill settings the very nature focused property where you're out here in in the wilderness and it's beautiful nature sounds trees deer lots of wildlife it's a very unique setting next to the national forest here in central california and there's usually more deer and quail on the property than humans at any time one thing that that is that we enjoy most about the property and what groups seem to joy as well is the personal feeling that you get we have put very much our own personal touches into developing a property and that comes through and we love the interaction with our  too much alcohol and it's a very special place of made wine now in the valley for twenty five years he's been use we seeding all around this is about thirty five years old vineyards and this is a fun time of year when we finally year long of work you know i love about you guys is the vet knows everywhere i go around the world they have such a passion for what they do it's like an artist with his canvas you know you start from the beginning and then at the end and you see the results you have the joy and being able to share the experience i think with the audience so to speak you know your audience and other drinkers typically when you have a glass of wine is was a good meal or some good friends are you doing some celebration so it's i mean really the world of wine is around it was the enjoyment of while and i just feel sort of i feel back to earth you know it's just a whole kind of feeling just walking through this vineyard and seeing all of these rolling hills makes it a very special experience well that it's all starts here in the vineyards obviously was otherwise we wouldn't have those wonderful wines and you're very so close to the earth because it's just plants that you grow what also is fascinating in the world of wine is one has been around for you know more than five thousand years or something that's really involve you know is there was religion was the you know viable you can consume the celebration maybe it's really it's a lot more than just beverage it has truly deep significance to history and history things in and it's wonderful and i think particularly the young young generation of people you know twenty one thirty five a lot of them are really embracing wanting that they go on the internet they read about it they go visit wineries it collect tastes it's just it's a very exciting time it really is you know you inventing some new wines creating some new wines that we do is those new varietals it's a big challenge those two that i mention the others like grapes that are not very well known but they reason have people are interested they don't want to drink the same wine every day they want to try if they haven't one glass of wine a day they want to try different things and try to do some combination of food for instance and wine tastings in wine tasting everyone is affordable as well we don't have to spend a fortune in wine you can buy one from you know ten to fifteen dollars eighteen dollars and have a very very special and you can go all the way up as well the way i bet you don't have to spend a lot of manager very good one that's not the case anymore each area has its own kind of wine or grape that's being produced yes indeed we have different drainage different solid composition typically a red wine when we decide to transform the vineyards either we replace the vines or plant something new we really particular about the choice of rootstock the clones the varietals going going to plant because it's it's quite costly planning o county for them they go oh that's where hearst castle is and certainly that is one of the major attractions for this area castle was an incredible home that was built by william randolph hearst in the twent and thirty's and forty's and in fact it continues to be built upon and in every store and so on and it's just one of those iconic images that when people think of this part of california they think of h castle and san simeon where it resides and it was no small mistake that that castle was built there because william randolph hearst had the opportunity to put his home anywhere he wanted in the world and he chose this region of california to build so come here go to the castle and then experience everything else around here or the creates this kingdom on the central coast of california the hearst castle sits on top of a mountain in san simeon overlooking the valley with the best of the valley it's like being in heaven i suppose the hearst castle is a popular tourist site because it allows everyone to look into the past of how medium randolph hearst lived his lavish lifestyle you could almost feel the presence of the movie stars as they walked the ground properties here at san simeon and elsewhere in the state jim and i got together to produce these wines he's been in the business for twenty twenty five years and i'm new to this solo we have done a fair amount of tasting  come up with our eight wines enjoying all of that by the day and by the glass it's been a fun ride developing our all of our wines that we've introduced to the market two of which will hit the market not growing these grapes on her strange in order to keep a level of involvement that allowed us to form this partnership with jim saunders we have been involved i've been involved in dozens of tastings and elect to say that my work is never done jim jim and i met at a philanthropic event here right here at the dairy on the ranch we were throwing a fundraiser for the her scarce resource center and often times i auctioned off a day at the ranch a tour number he bought a tour for twelve of his friends and spent the day here and you know when you spend the day with an individual you talk about all kinds of things and certainly jim talked about his one business so while we've had a lot of interest over the last few years people want to get into the business one business with with her first jim absolutely put the car in front of the horse and by the time two weeks had passed following that initial tour  he already had a sign on one of his barns what's a horse ranch winery and and our logo was was stenciled on the old fruit and so while i thought he got the cart quite far ahead of the horse within a couple of weeks we decided to move forward with this and and again lots of barrel tastings lots of wind blending and just absolutely fun process to put first the point into a bottle so i could take it back and introduce it to the people i worked for in new york best of class best of show award for our cabernet franc which really surprised us that we knew it was a great wine we didn't know how great they were fourteen hundred entrants in the competition and we grabbed the brass ring on that one we were very very proud of that california mint state fair we took people's choice award for cabernet also for our chardonnay as well so we were very very proud of those awards about six years ago we started a grass fed beef program most of the beef that we consume as residents of the area is of course raising a feedlot and we of course port support that end of the business as well but we were trying to figure out a way to make our beef business better and appeal to a smaller audience of individuals who are a little bit more concerned about you know where their food comes from how it was treated it was how it was raised of course and and how it was processed and we came up with just avoiding the feedlot altogether and taking our cattle on our grass our natural grasses here at san simeon and park system certainly they come here when people come here it's interesting the central coast has a draw it has a draw not only because of the cast whole not only because of the open space highway one the pacific ocean but there's lots of other things to do here  certainly you know say most cambria and tell you because all these different areas up and down the coast just south of big sur and of course sort of self we're fortunate enough to be kind of the gateway to big surf from the south here at hearst ranch and certainly we're sitting in the middle of one hundred twenty eight square miles of what we refer to as heaven and we just happen to share the address with the cast my name is brad clay and i'm sales and marketing manager for the abalone farm and we are in north of you because california which is on the central coast halfway between los angeles and san francisco and the abalone farm has been around since the late sixty's and we're the largest producer of california red abalone in the u s and we produce about one hundred tons per year that's approximately a million abalone around th size and the california red abalone even though it's one species that grows the largest in the world they can grow up to a shell length of the route twelve inches and abalone this size which is only about three and a quarter three and a half inches takes for years to grow so it's a very slow growing species abalone is native to the pacific coast and there is no abalone species that is native to the u s atlantica coast so abalone is regional seafood or regional shellfish just native to the west coast many people don't know about abalone in other parts of the u samurai class a lot of people i have are starting to learn about abalone because people are more curious about food and then they would say you know thirty years ago when it was all about convenience and abalone is a very delicate seafood it takes a little bit the expertise to know how to prepare it properly and so it's it's a gourmet item you don't find it on to me seafood restaurant come fly with me over the central coast of california to discover the rolling hills the vineyards and of course the moro rock was a child and that's our tamarind glazed pork chop this has been so much fun here in the central coast and i can't wait to come back i hope you have had as much fun as i have exploring the central coast of california and the wines and the food and the produce look forward to seeing you 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