Green Business Program Breakfast Event
| Date/Time: | February 5, 2010, 7:30 - 9:00am |
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Santa Maria Inn - 801 South Broadway, Santa Maria. Shuttles available from Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez; reservations required. |
| RSVP: | By February 1, 2010 to Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce by e-mail to Barbara@santamaria.com or phone (805) 925-2403 x824. |
| Cost: | $15 per person in advance; $20 on the day of the event. For advance payment, please send a check by Monday, February 1, 2010 payable to “County of Santa Barbara” to:
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| Purpose: | To honor businesses achieving certification during 2009 and to educate and encourage new businesses to apply for certification. |
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| Getting There Green: | From Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Airbus, a recently certified Green Business, has generously offered to provide FREE charter service for the event from Santa Barbara to Santa Maria. Leaves at 6:00 AM from the SBCAG parking lot - 260 North San Antonio Rd.(Calle Real between El Sueno and Turnpike - view map.
From Santa Ynez Valley: Grapeline Wine Country Shuttle has also generously offered to provide FREE transportation from the Santa Ynez Valley (Buellton) to Santa Maria. Leaves at 6:15 AM from the Santa Ynez Valley Marriott - 555 McMurray Road, Buellton - view map. For more information and to make reservations, call (805) 963-SAVE. Download Getting There Green flyer. |
Wes Hagen is the vineyard manager and winemaker for Clos Pepe Vineyards and Estate Wines, as well as Axis Mundi Wines, Clos Pepe’s second label. Wes retired from a lucrative career in public education to become a winemaker in 1996. His early training came from UC Davis’ Extension program, his work in 1996 at Babcock Winery, and from a decade of home winemaking in Southern California.
Wes wears a lot of hats in the wine biz. He manages the vineyard at Clos Pepe, makes the wine for the Estate and Axis Mundi labels with his wife, Chanda. Wes also writes a regular column for WineMaker Magazine, and has written for the Burgundy Report, Color and Aroma Magazine and a feature article in the Los Angeles Times Magazine. Wes has served as a professional wine judge for fifteen years, chairing panels at 4 different International Wine Competitions. Wes won the Central Coast Winegrower of the Year in 2001-2002, and has successfully petitioned the Federal Government for the establishment of two American Viticultural Areas, the Santa Rita Hills and Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara AVA’s. Wes puts in extensive effort in promoting Clos Pepe and the Santa Rita Hills as a premier Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wine growing area.
Wes also loves educating the public on the subject of wine and wine history, and gives tours and tastings by appointment at Clos Pepe. He also is a local industry leader in the use of social networking and web 2.0. Wes can be reached via email at wes@clospepe.com, is on Facebook as Wes Hagen, and has an impressive Twitter following at twitter.com/weshagen. In his free time Wes enjoys hiking, photography, creative writing, playing Latin and African percussion, studying Shaolin Kung Fu, playing video games, and drinking wine.