Special Events At The Wine Lover

Join The Wine Lover as we present "Meet The Wine Maker", where we invite some of the best wine makers around to come and spend a couple of hours with us and share their experiences, philosophy and the love for what they do as we taste three specially selected wines for the evening.

Friday May 18 brings Fabien Castel from The Ojai Vineyard. The Ojai Vineyard began in 1983 with the dream of producing distinctive California wines using traditional wine making practices learned in Burgundy and the Rhone valley.

Fabien Castell

My Name is Fabien Castel and I have been Adam Tolmach's apprentice for 11 years. I grew up in Paris and was never in the wine trade but graduated instead in Biology and Advertising. My relation to wine was visceral as in France it is part of everyday life from an early age. I grew up exposed to many wines old and young but never to any formal training until I started working at the Ojai Vineyard. This is when I became aware of the process of tasting and ultimately viticulture and winemaking. Under the guidance of Adam I discovered the multiple terroirs and climates of the central coast. I followed his never ending quest to marry the specific attributes of our latitude and continent with the experience of craft oriented old world winemaking techniques and sensibility. I completely subscribe to Adam's desire to keep the texture and warmth of fruit we get every year in California and add a sense of elegance and freshness found in European wines. I am now dedicating a lot of my time explaining the uniqueness of this quest and how it translates in The Ojai Vineyard's wines.


$15 per person
3 tastes of selected wine from The Ojai Vineyard
We will be tasting from 6 - 8pm

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