Chaucer’s Books will host Michael C. Higgins for a book talk and signing of “Exploring Wine Regions — The Central Coast of California,” 4 p.m. Sunday, July 27 at Chaucer’s, 3321 State St., Santa Barbara.

“There will be wine to taste,” Chaucer’s said.

“Exploring Wine Regions — The Central Coast of California” is the third book in an award-winning series, now exploring lesser-known areas of California’s wine regions.

“Beyond the familiar Napa and Sonoma, the Central Coast wine regions are producing top-level, high-quality wines, and the tourism is extraordinary,” Chaucer’s said.

“This book takes you on a journey to discover these amazing wines; combining wine education, insiders travel guide and spectacular photography,” the bookstore said.

With 436 full-color pages and more than 800 photographic images, this third edition explores California’s Central Coast regions of Monterey County, San Luis Obispo County (including Paso Robles), and Santa Barbara County.

Extensive resources are provided for wine lovers who want to know where to go, what to look for, and how to discover their favorite wines by understanding the terroir.

The Exploring Wine Regions series incorporates a coffee table book with travel guide, wine education, striking photography, and adventures into travel, food and wine connoisseurship.
It includes information to plan and travel to see the most interesting wineries, restaurants and resorts in these beautiful wine regions.

Agronomists, oenologists, vintners, chefs, sommeliers, and outdoor adventurers are interviewed in-depth to give readers the inside track to Exploring Wine Regions of the world.
 
 
For more than 20 years, Higgins — author, photographer and wine expert — was the publisher of Flying Adventures magazine, a lifestyle travel publication for food and wine lovers who own private planes.

In the Exploring Wine Regions series Higgins has written about and photographed the wine regions of Argentina, Bordeaux, the Central California Coast and Mexico.

He has participated in such wine experiences as pruning vines, picking grapes alongside master winemakers, participating in blind tastings, and sharing paired wine dinners with world-renowned oenophiles.

Higgins holds a bachelor of arts in commercial art/photography, and an MBA and Ph.D in business administration.

He lives in Pasadena, California.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



 
 
 
 




 
 
 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
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