Recipes & Pairings

Inspired by the way we eat, drink, and celebrate in our own family, here are a few of our favorite recipes and pairings.

Need wine to help you cook? Visit our tasting rooms, we’re happy to help!

As found in “Chez Panisse Café Cookbook”

 

When in doubt, grill it out

 

Italian inspired — completely Californian

A golden state-inspired pasta recipe, paired with our Buck Cobb Vermentino & Sleeper Ranch Barbera! Two Italian grape varieties grown in small quantities in the foggy, granitic hills of Amador County, these are traditionally tiny-production, tasting-room-only wines. Add an old Western film and make it a whole night!

 

For people & moments you hold dear

For anyone celebrating a birthday, anniversary, or marking a special event at the moment. Inspired by the dinner we made (and the wines we drank) to commemorate Larry’s 75th birthday at the end of May! Hint hint: you can even send the wines to your loved one if you can’t celebrate with them in person!

 

Bucking tradition & catching waves

A Turley take on “surf n’ turf,” inspired by a new wine, the Paso Robles Old Vines blend. Hailing from some of our best old-vine sites in the region, the wine has something very “old west” about it. When we tasted the wine as a (virtual) group during 2020, our winemaker Tegan Passalacqua called it “the surfing cowboy,” and the name stuck.

 

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Savannah Turley

recipe creator & Bread Baker

The youngest (and tallest) of Larry’s four daughters, Savannah spent the last 7 years cooking and baking in New York City and Brooklyn restaurants including opening and developing Gertie NYC’s in-house baking program. She began teaching and freelance baking for Mina’s Museum Cafe at MOMA PS1 before moving back to Saint Helena, CA to bake from a wood fired oven for neighbors in the Napa Valley.